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Michelle5 01/26/2009

My daughter just turned one and even though we know that you only start out with giving them one food at a time for a week. I am just woundering what are some suggestions of Brek-lucn-dinn and snacks she could be getting. Oh and she just got her baby teeth at 11 months old. She has her 2 top ons in all the way and one bottom 2. she has 3 more trying to break through so lets just say she soom pain at times. We do use teething tabs and motrin when she needs it. We see the Doc in 2 weeks for her well baby check up and I am sure he will talk to us about some things. I also am still giving her the Good starter formual 9-24 she has not yet got milk. She gets jucie though. She also loves the morning yoget drinks they have which are made from soy they are in the baby section. She has done great on those for a week and no reaction. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks.

deleted_user 01/26/2009

I just added a list of a few ideas you could use one one of the other threads basicly asking the same thing, use some of those, but just in case you do not bother to look this may help.

9-12 months
Wheat
Oranges and other citrus
Cheese
Yogurt
Soy
Peas and other legumes (except peanuts)
Egg yolk
Corn

12 - 18 months
Cow's milk (including cottage cheese, ice cream)
Pork
Tomatoes

deleted_user 01/26/2009

My son loves Cheese, cubes or sticks, he eats Mashed potatoes well, the Yogurt drinks are great, Yogurt is good for Breakfast, Gerber makes diced apples and carrots in a jar that my son adores because they're a "me do it" food (he can feed himself that and cheese), Pasta is good for self-feeding (mac & cheese or with butter and parmasean), melon cubes are good (watermelon is my sons favorite, but he'll also eat honeydew)
My son is picky sort of, and still refuses to eat any meats, but I know they make meat sticks for kids to eat.....he used to eat them, but that only lasted a week, then we went vegetarian....lol....not sure why.....
I hope this helps some!

deleted_user 01/26/2009

LoL Goofybethie.
my son did the same thing for a while.
finely got him eating the meats though.
it was not easy, his mother and her boyfriend have gone vegetarian so he only gets those things on my end.

Michelle5 01/26/2009

I guess I should have said that my daughter has acid reflex so we have to watch what we give her. TES2008 thanks for the tips I was not looking for lunch tips though so I did not bother taking a look at that question.
Goofybethie thanks for the nice advise thats what I needed.

deleted_user 01/26/2009

http://www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com/pear-baby-food.html
http://homemadebabyformula.blogspot.com/2007/10/home-made-baby-formula.html
http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/infant-reflux-solid-foods.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_4506591_feed-baby-acid-reflux.html
http://www.heal-acid-reflux.com/acid_reflux_recipe/

deleted_user 01/26/2009

I don't think you need to introduce just one food a week, that's more for when they are starting to eat foods when they are infants. We give/gave our kids whatever we were eating and just mashed it up real well.

One poster mentioned the Gerber diced apples and carrots; however, if you are on a budget, you can simply steam the carrots after cutting them into cubes, the same for apples or anything else.

Just be careful of round food (hot dogs, etc...) and cut them in half lengthwise and then in smaller pieces.

HTH

deleted_user 01/26/2009

I forgot one thing.....you say that she doesn't drink milk, but does drink juice. I wouldn't let her have more than a small cup each day of juice. Two reasons are that it will fill her up on empty calories and it's more nutritional to have the actual fruit. I'm sure there will be those who disagree, but I am anti-juice and I don't mean to offend anyone.

deleted_user 01/26/2009

i put what i feed mine on another thread as well. Mine eats just about anything. Allergies are not common in my family, I dont wait a week for each new food after the basic stage 1 foods. With juice, no more than 4 ounces, diluted with water is what our pedi recommends, although my other 2 drank much more juice. Baby isnt much interested in it. What kind of milk are you giving? She should be having whole milk til shes 2.

Michelle5 01/27/2009

She sees the Dr on Feb 5 and I wanted to wait to ask him before giving her any type of milk. As of now she is getting Good Start Formual 12-24. As far as juice she only gets 6oz a day and it is the splashers which is juice with water in it.

deleted_user 01/28/2009

My son had reflux but fortunately he outgrew by the time he was on solids. At 1 year old he was pretty much eating what we ate except we mashed it up a bit. One of his favourites was mild chicken curry!

Michelle5 01/29/2009

I hear alot of you say that by the time your child was 1 they are eating the same foods as you. Well with Aubrey we never really gave her a lot of diff foods only mashed potatos because she had the refluxs and the Dr was always saying that we could make it worse on her. Also she never got her baby teeth until she wa 11 months so she seems like she is behind. She is eating more of the Greber cereal snacks and some noodles but she has a hard time with the little tiny meats. She keeps them in her mouth and will not swallow them. Also she is still teething and her mouth hurts a lot of the time so I will still feed her the soft baby food so she will at least eat.

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