[aclee]

Waving to you both from the land of NO tolerance to change over here.

I don't know what it was with Ty. When we changed formula, started puree's, started a new puree, stared cereal, started a new cereal, started ANYTHING new that was food related, it was a huge, monumental ordeal in our house. There was screaming and hitting, and crying and gagging, and more gagging, and laughing (when I would cry)...it was just always a big huge major ordeal. So I stopped. I just stopped feeding him.

Just kidding. I kept at. In our house that was all we could do. Everyday we started over. I would give him breakfast of something he liked and was familiar with so he could get a good meal in his belly, and then at lucnh we would work on something new. A new food, a new texture, protien vs a veggie. Something new. It's exhausting...

I don't know if it's like this with all kids, but with Ty, with each 'new' thing, he would turn a corner...where suddenly he was ok, and that wasn't 'new' anymore. First it was a new formula, then it was anything besides formula, then it was what it was besides formula, then it was textures, then it was feeding himself. Slowly each of those steps because not new to him. Today we went out to lunch. I got chicken with corn and fries and DH got a patty melt with fries. Tyler ate (all by himself) pieces of burger, peices of chicken, diced tomato, corn (and some corn off my fork) peices of french fry, melted cheese, and finished it all off by deciding he wanted to be an active part in our ice cream dessert.

Somewhere along the way, he turned the corner. For dinner he ate raw red peper pieces (*I* was gagging....hate peppers), squash peices (which was the#1 vomit factor a month ago) and fish. He loves FISH...so weird. I got a headache and laid down for an hour, and woke up to Tyler helping Daddy make kale soup. Complete with them both having their own tasting spoons for the process on the spoon rest.

Stick with it. It's overwhelming because it plays RIGHT into our whole motherly feed our babies emotion. It's so difficult to know you trying to do the right thing for them, and at the same time, it upsets them, and may even make them throw up.

Ty has been a see-saw with food. From day to day I could vary between saying, Ty's a GREAT eater, to Ty will starve to death.

Make sure they get plenty of formula and really accept that is where they are getting their nutrition from anyway! They will come around eventually

Edit to add...okay, I read Fran's post and somehow thought she was the OP. Sorry.

Marci...I would say move to chunkier foods, and thicken the purees if you haven't been. Cherrios, and steamed/boiled/roasted veggies are great too. Tofu is a great intro to protien if you haven't yet. Try a variety of things! Ty loved puffs, and still does. They are a great stand by when you are out and about too. I would do puffs for a few days (they really help them get down the tray to mouth move) and then maybe try cherrios broken in 1/2...