Well, Zac has learned to make this nasty look now and is using it a LOT. Mommy laughs at it and he does aswell. However, now he makes it everytime he touches a new finger food. Sometimes he'll eat it sometimes he wont. Well...he's now making this HORRID face and gagging when I try foods that he use to LOVE! One of them is squash and the other is mashed potatoes. This is my fault because I use to mix his meals with mashed potatoes but I stopped doing that about two months ago and haven't kept it up. The squash is also my fault because I use to mix squash with a 1/2 jar of meat...now I'm not mixing 1/2 jars of meats. I've gotten lazy and I just buy the pre mixed veggies w/meat and none of them include squash so he's not had that flavor for a while. He wretched and gagged w/every bite of squash last night, and tonight with the mashed potatoes. When he touches something mushy on his tray he makes that face...I guess that's because he's use to the cheerios and puffs only in h is fingers. Now i'm trying to introduce meat sticks and pastas for him to finger. Anyhow I'm wondering if anyone went through a phase of being a really picky eater as to what goes in? Probably a silly questin w/GERDlings. If he likes it he'll devour it though. <sigh> just wanted to comment and it turned into a book. Sorry.

Catherine won't touch with her hands anything that is not hard and/or dry. She'd never touch an icky meat stick, lol!

Oh, we definitely did! It was horrid. Cady gagged and vomited on new foods and wouldn't touch textures or smooshy things. She grew out of that at 11 mos. and will now try anything and even pick up those slimey bananas that made her vomit forcefully, because of the texture two months ago. She's eating like a pro. I'm sure it's a phase. Don't get discouraged by the gagging, just keep trying those things and eventually he'll like them. I didn't believe that for a while. Remember those stage three dinners that I complained made Cady gag and vomit...well, they're her faves now, simply because I knew that the gagging was a "yuck" thing, and just kept trying and trying and trying. That's all the advice I can offer. Keep trying everything every other day or so that he has issues with, but only do one new thing a day. Any more than one new thing a day, he'll get frustrated and the reaction could be worse. Try those things with a favorite on the side.

Like Catherine, Emma will only touch dry foods....Cheerios and Puffs, pieces of waffle, etc. I have to feed her the mushy ones. She won't eat anything off a spoon except spaghetti noodles, (chopped in the food processor), mixed with her dairy free margarine.

Emma knows whats on the spoon. She'll open wide for the noodles but she won't even open her mouth if it's anything else. She's smart, but it's sad at the same time.

LoL...yep, they're getting to old and too wise <sigh> I canNOT believe Zac will be 10 months old on Monday!!!!! Time just flies in retrospect! <sigh>
Anyway...thanks for the advice. Judy, I figured I should just keep trying as I know he use to like mashed potatoes at least. These faces he's making are histarical, so overdramatic now. Worse part is, I laugh and he knows it. Back to them being too smart for their own good. Anyhow thansk again.

Cady still makes histarical faces with some food, too! Well, it's the food-laden raspberries that make me smile and snicker a little...gotta love when she sprays food all over me when she doesn't want it. Now, I can laugh at those weird things she does with food, as she doesn't have that darn gag reflex working against her anymore. Now, she can tell me she doesn't like it by throwing it on the floor or putting it in her hair, as well as making those nice faces like we make when we suck on a lemon. All of those things get me rolling and of course, I agree, she's just too darn smart for her own good.

Catherine has started not swallowing if she doesn't want to eat. She just holds her mouth open and lets it roll out. GROSS!!!!!! Dinners have gotten really short at our house lately.

I figured out that if i put his bread w/jam with the jam side facing down, he will pick it up...if he sees the jam he won't touch it. :roll: kids! LoL

Emma knows whats on the spoon. She'll open wide for the noodles but she won't even open her mouth if it's anything else. She's smart, but it's sad at the same time.

Noah does this very thing. He gives the spoon a good look before opening, or he will make me put a bit on his lips, then he'll taste it, then decide if it passes his inspection. 99% of things do not.:cry:

Sorry, Sara, we've boycotted almost all solids and finger foods lately trying to relieve Noah's tummy, so I do not have any good suggestions. Zac was such a great eater, hopefully he's just messing with mommy on this one. How dramatic in the meantime, right?

When we can coax Bethany into eating these days, she seems to know what's on the spoon before it comes anywhere near her lips! *lol* She has a habit of spitting food out she doesn't want by closing her lips and letting it dribble out of the corners of her mouth... It's really a thrill to clean baby food out of her neck on a regular basis!

Well...lunch was a bit of a disaster today but dinner, was a great success! I think he's really starting to be very picky w/his dinners. He has no problems with any fruits but so far its squash, chicken noodle, turkey w/barley and rice, and vegetables with chicken that he is really starting to hate (that he once loved). I can never go wrong with Chicken and sweet potatoes though, he loves those! Dinner, he ate a jar of sweet pot. w/chicken, a jar of peaches, half a bowl of maccaroni and cheese and a few puffs. I'm satisfied.

Catherine loves sweet potatoes with chicken, also. Her fave, though, is veggies with turkey but only Mom's Organic brand. I tried a different brand yesterday, and she wouldn't even swallow it.

Daddy cooked for him for the first his firts (home cooked meal) and he LOVED IT. He had rice with garbonzo beans (chickpeas?) and loved loved loved it. He cooked the beans w/ham and other veggies and made a soup. He ate that plus his stage 2 jar dinner and stage 2 jar fruit and THEN a few bites of carrots from another jar. He also ate some maccaroni :shock: and about 30 puffs!
He even ate the rice/beans off the spoon which is a shocker! HE hates taking chunks off a spoon.

My goodness, Sara! He ate all that? He must have warp-speed metabolism!

I wonder wehre it all goes sometimes! Cause it's not coming back up, lately

I tried homemade chicken and dumplings on Catherine last night. She took 2-3 bites before she spewed it all back out and smacked the spoon away. I tell ya ... it's getting harder and harder to be patient with her.

Wow! Zac eats so much!

Emma won't eat babyfood, and I feel like I spend tons of time preparing her meals so she has a balance of healthy things to eat. Because she can't have soy or milk, it makes it even tougher.

It IS frustrating when I spend all that time, and she only takes one or two bites, if I'm lucky. If she didn't drink her formula, she'd wither away.

Scary.:shock:

I'm with you, Amanda. Although I rarely serve Catherine anything other than plain jarred fruits and veggies. It's kind of sad for an almost 1yo to still be primarily formula fed.