My son is 14 months tomorrow and we can hardly get him to eat solid foods on his own. We want to wean him off formula by…

Most stop formula and switch to milk at one year. That being said, try bananas, fruit cups, bread, baked chicken. Get off the baby food completely/cold turkey. Mixing solid food with baby food can just confuse the kid. Needs to be one or the other. He'll eat it when he is really hungry. It can take on average of 10 tries for each new food before he'll eat it. So just keep trying.

@starienite yes please thank you! I will keep you posted as well.

Good luck. Let me know how it goes. I’ll let you know if I find out anything interesting at my appointment tomorrow.

@starienite mine these past few weeks just started drinking 8oz a bottle so I get it. He used to only have 6oz bottles and maybe 7oz at night. Hopefully we can get the advice we need from the doctors. :)

Haha. He sounds just like my son. He doesn’t sleep either and needs to be fed through the night. But mine only drinks 4-6 oz bottles so it still feels like he drinks bottles all day. I had to keep a food journal every day for the last two weeks of everything he ate or drank and had to make a master list of all the things he will eat. My list has a lot of gerber on it. I have to turn it in tomorrow and see what the doctor says.

Just let her know your concerns and she should be able to help you from there.

@starienite I think he has about 3 8oz bottles a day so 24oz. I will try banana I just want him to start wanting to eat more solids rather than thin baby foods or formula. He also doesn't sleep through the night yet and wakes up twice for a bottle.

@starienite oh I didn't know about that we go to the doctors Thursday for his baby wellness check up I'll ask her about it.

Another thing you can do is talk to your doctor about it. There is such a thing as food therapy that helps get children to eat. I will be asking my doctor about it tomorrow.

How much formula does he drink a day? My son still drinks anywhere from 20-30oz a day. He should only be drinking about 16oz a day. Try cooking some apple and mix it with cinnamon start by almost mashing them and then work up to bigger pieces. My son doesn’t eat very much either but it is because he drinks too much formula have you tried bananas? I cut my sons in half pieces and he will pick them up and eat them or I will feed them to him with a fork.

@kaela3 thanks for the advice! I will try to feed him the stage 3 foods again for dinner and try the meals and hope for the best! I have a couple of friends that had their babies a week or two before me and they are really good eaters and have been eating well since 10-11 months but I know all babies are different. Fingers crossed I can get him interested in other foods! 😁

@aylenrose, yeah i understand , i weaned my son off formula at 1 and switched him to whole milk. He gets like 3 sippy cups full a day.. other than that he eats the rest of the time .. you can try the gerber meals too. I got them for my son and he liked them as well

@kaela3 I'll give it another shot! My son does that to the first time I gave him yogurt bites at 10 months he gaged and puked. Now he loves them. Its just tough because I know he can't have bottles and baby food forever and I feel like he's just not interested in eating.

@aylenrose, he’s just gotta get used to the texture of it.. my son still doesn’t like some foods because of the texture

@aylenrose, i would just keep trying ! My son used to gag when I’d put it in his mouth lol. But then he got the hang of it .

@kaela3 we tried those to but once he got some of the chunks he makes a face and spits it out and smears it all over his tray. 😥

@zachattackmomma didn't think of that!

@alana18 yes we give him the toddler transition one that you can give them from ages 1 to 3. We usually give it to him between his baby food meals.

@aylenrose, my son didn’t like food that was chunky at first either . He hated stage 3 baby food because it was chunky but after a few weeks of trying to give it to him he got used to it. So if you haven’t tried stage 3 then try that!

@kaela3 yes he eats the baby rice cereal, the baby yogurts and certain baby food. He likes the fruit ones best but we get him to eat the fruit and veggie mixes. When we try to get him to have like chopped up fruit or carrots or turkey he just plays with it.

Smoothies also

Did you ever feed him baby food?