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Mama goes crazy--10 month old, BFing and won't eat solids
Hey, all. I'm new here, but am desperate to find a community that can be supportive and helpful. I feel like I'm about to go over the deep end!
I have a 10 month old daughter, who has been exclusively breastfed, and it's gone just fine, for the most part. We had waited to introduce solids at all until she was about 8 months, knowing that she could just start with finger foods, rather than mushy stuff. Also, I am going to work full time in about six weeks...so we figured by the time I got to working, she'd be eating more and needing less milk, which would make the pumping process (and staying at home with dad) easier. However, two months later, she still doesn't really eat anything. She'll taste things, chew on them, put them in her mouth...and she reaches for food, and seems to enjoy what she puts in her mouth...but she utterly refuses to swallow anything. I can't spoon-feed her--she insists on doing it herself, and just ends up playing with whatever is on the spoon. So it's finger-foods or nothing.
I am feeling totally lost, here. She's BFing more frequently than ever, now. I have no idea how I could possibly begin to pump milk in order to go back to work, because she eats so often. I'm exhausted from waking up between four and six times a night, still. I feel worn out and used up, and resentful, which only makes me feel selfish and depressed...and I don't know what to do. I feel chained to the baby...and I don't know how I'm going to manage to go back to work with things the way they are.
We just moved three days ago to a brand-new state...so I don't have a community of people around me to talk to yet. Thanks, all, for reading...and I'll take anything you've got!
welcome to Amitymama. I have a 10mo old ds and I can relate to trying to spoon feed them. It is a joke. My dd was 14 mos before she ate any solid foods. Does she drink from a cup? Maybe offer her some breastmilk in a cup so your DH has something to offer her. Sebastian really enjoys diced fruits, maybe you could try that.
Welcome to amitys!
I can totally relate to the "no eating solids til well over a year" camp but I am no help with going to work while this is going on.
Many hugs mama!! I hope you get some good advice!
The cup may help, if you can pump.....
what about mashed bananas and avocados? My children who waited til later for solids didn't mind the mashy foods at all, even though they could chew bite-sized finger foods...... In fact, they loved mashed banana and avocado and would swallow a lot of that.
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Tracey, Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth ~1 John 3:18
If your work is supportive of you pumping you really can get just as much milk from a pump as you can bfing (at least, i could).
I didn't realize it with my first, but going from the one job to another (same job, same company, different town) is why my baby weaned. I wasn't making milk because I couldn't pump as often.
But enough of that. I'd stay hydrated, and get a good pump. I think mamas here really like a few kinds (i used the advent isis, it was a single hand pump).
I'm not sure you can do anything more than you already are to encourage eating. Perhaps with you gone and just dh there, she might eat, she might not, and both are okay. She'll eat eventually, I promise.
((hugs)), and hope you get some rest soon.
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Mama goes crazy--10 month old, BFing and won't eat solids
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