Nearly 8 month old still not swallowing food, won't take a bottle

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04/28/2023 16:34

Subject: Nearly 8 month old still not swallowing food, won't take a bottle

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My youngest child never took to baby food. He couldn't seem to deal with the texture of it. He did better gumming on bagels and other solids of that type. He also wasn't great with a bottle but did eventually used one for a short time before I switched to sippy cups. By the time he was a year old, he was entirely on table food. He never did eat the mushy stuff.

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04/28/2023 21:47

Subject: Re:Nearly 8 month old still not swallowing food, won't take a bottle

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Anonymous wrote:You cannot feed every 3 hours. How are you even functioning. Are you letting her explore the food?

What? It's normal for babies to eat every three hour at 7 months old. Breastmilk is their primary source of nutrition.

No it's not normal--every 4 to 5 hours at that age is normal.

really? my LC told me at 7 months to still be offering breast every 2-3 hours...

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04/28/2023 22:20

Subject: Re:Nearly 8 month old still not swallowing food, won't take a bottle

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:You cannot feed every 3 hours. How are you even functioning. Are you letting her explore the food?

What? It's normal for babies to eat every three hour at 7 months old. Breastmilk is their primary source of nutrition.

No it's not normal--every 4 to 5 hours at that age is normal.

I don't think so, I've been both a infant daycare worker and a nursing mom, and none of my kids or charges were going 5 hours between bottles or nursing. At night? Sure, but OP's kid is feeding once at night, but during the day? No.

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04/28/2023 22:27

Subject: Re:Nearly 8 month old still not swallowing food, won't take a bottle

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Anonymous wrote:You cannot feed every 3 hours. How are you even functioning. Are you letting her explore the food?

Every 3 hours during the day and once at night is perfectly doable, what are you talking about?

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04/28/2023 22:32

Subject: Nearly 8 month old still not swallowing food, won't take a bottle

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Anonymous wrote:My youngest child never took to baby food. He couldn't seem to deal with the texture of it. He did better gumming on bagels and other solids of that type. He also wasn't great with a bottle but did eventually used one for a short time before I switched to sippy cups. By the time he was a year old, he was entirely on table food. He never did eat the mushy stuff.

My youngest was like this too. He gagged on most baby foods. Also never took a bottle.

Honestly, he's 19 now and still looks like he wants to gag when he eats something mushy lol.