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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks all. We’ve been introducing a cup/Sippy since she was 8 months. She chews on it, that’s it. My biggest concern is developmental — that she just isn’t learning to eat solids because of texture. Medicating her has been a nightmare (we had to do rocephin shots) as well. I’ll bring it up with her PT but assume that as long as she’s gaining she’s ok, even though much of it is still from nursing.[/quote]

What I see as a mom who has been there done that is she is clearly learning to eat solids, some of the most difficult solids in fact.  The fact that at 13 months she isn't welcoming every single solid you put in front of her and eating from the dinner table/breakfast table is not a feeding issue.  She's not ready for that.  She's still an infant.  It sounds to me like in her feeding she's developing well.

Step away from her medical issues (I know it's hard) and look at her feeding pattern.  She's breast feeding for a majority of her calories, which is just fine.  She's also enjoying a variety of hard foods which she self feeds (a huge deal for kids with low tone) and which are not bland foods (again, huge deal for kids with motoric and other issues).  She's also crawling and pulling up.

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