Baby Doesn't like Gerber 3Rd Foods (Texture)

We skipped the 3rd foods-- Isaac wanted either solid food or mush, no mixing! So we transitioned directly from 2nd foods to table foods with no problems

My DD also hated 3rd foods. We went straight from second (and second-similar homemade foods...) to solids.

Have you tried making your own? Like take and cook pasta super soft and chop it smaller, add a little sauce ect... I made my sons baby food and it's so easy. It might also help her with textures.

My daughter did exactly the same thing- We ended up skipping the stage 3s and went straight to cut up 'real' food. there was something about the texture of the 3's that just did not work for her. She is not a picky eater now

It's likely that, as other mothers have found, that the taste and texture of 3rd foods are undesirable and you can just skip them. It's also possible that her gag reflex is more sensitive or immature and she can't physically handle them. Or that she has sensory issues which causes her to not like the feel of 3rd food textures.

I would try cutting up table food for her. If she can handle that then you can just skip the 3rd foods. If she has difficulty with table food, I'd go back to 2nd foods and wait until she's older to try 3rd foods or table food. If she still has this problem when she's a year or so old then I'd consider getting an evaluation to see if she has sensory issues.

Based on all of these responses I'd suggest that sensory issues are most likely not the cause.

Have you tried tasting it?
I only say that because some baby foods are truly awful.
My kids hated jarred baby food.
I gave them homemade. For them, it wasn't a texture thing, it was a blah taste thing.

It's pretty normal for kids to not like something at first. The taste, the texture, how to figure out how to roll it around in their mouths and swallow.
Maybe try little bits of what you are eating, mushed up.
Once my kids discovered real food, there was no turning back and they both love everything. My son even likes liver, which I have to say I do not prepare for him. He will literally try anything.
I have a girl and a boy 10 years apart and neither liked jarred baby food.
Just keep trying different things.

Best wishes.

My kids didn't like them either, the texture and flavor is truly nasty. I made my own for them by using table foods cut up really small and cooked till tender.

My pediatrician told me that I could try to introduce these foods, but if my kids didn't care for them, then skip them altogether. He said I would be better off staying with stage two foods and introducing real foods (i.e. actual spaghetti instead of the stage 3 version). My son seemed to be more experimental with the different foods while my daughter was pickier, especially when it came to meats. She finally started trying meats and other textured foods consistently around 18 months to 2 years old. Hang in there!
HTH,
A.

Neither of my kids would eat the 3rd stage foods, it always went to waste. Instead, I just continued giving them the stage 2 foods and they ended up going straight to table foods like peas, carrots and small pieces of fruit and pasta.

That jarred stuff is nasty and expensive. get a small food processor and grind up what ever you are eating for lunch or dinner.

I agree with the other moms-skip stage 3's and just give table food. It really doesn't sound like much of a texture thing, since she likes bananas and other foods. It sounds like she just doesn't like that lumpy, mushy Gerber stuff. I don't blame her!

Have you tried other fruits and veggies? She is definately old enough for table foods, just make sure it is cut up small enough for her.

My son had (has) a texture thing and wouldn't touch table food until he was over 2 yrs old, too! His speech therapist was the only one to be able to get anything into him, other than smooth-textured food. So, I think your daughter is well on her way to eating other foods. Just throw away those Stage 3's!

Good luck!!

My daughter who is 4 now went from gerber 2nd foods to table foods she always gagged on the lumpy texture of the 3rd foods. My son who just turned 12 months old loved the gerber 3rd foods, and still has a jar a day. They are just all different, you might be surprised that you can just go from 2nd foods to table foods. By the way...the pasta prinavera looked good to me also, but my son didn't like it. I tasted it and I can see why. ALSO, that one is quite chunkier than vegetable chicken or vegetable beef dinner. My son LOVES both of those.

My daughter did not, and really does not now, like foods that are like the 3rd stage of any brand. She loves fruit but will not eat yogurt, or even ice cream, with bits of fruit in it. When the time came, I just moved her to regular foods that were really soft. She loves pasta but not if it is in a creamy or similar type of meal like the 3rd foods. We have no problem getting her to eat.

My daughter was grossed out by Stage 3 food, too. I agree with the advice to stick with Stage 2s, and start doing some small bites of real, but softer-cooked food. You can boil pasta longer, do little cheese shreds, softer-cooked vegetable bites. YoBaby brand yogurt is really good too.

About "picky about textures" - I still am picky about certain textures in food, and I'm in my thirties. It hasn't prevented me from liking lots of different kinds of food, all over, at home or while traveling, etc. The world of food is huge. A person's sensory response is not really, in my opinion, something you can change for them. Her tastes will be her own. I wouldn't keep offering her something that you already know makes her barf and gag.

my son will only eat the green beans or squash from the 3rd foods...the others are gross :( i don't blame her. my son has a little texture aversion, but it seems like he's gotten way better about it.

3rd stage foods are usually for kids over a year old. You are starting her on them too early. She needs to eat minimal foods and drink her formula for her nutrition until she is at least 1 yr. old. Some food is natural at this point but baby food has minimal nutrition because they expect it to be a supplement to the formula.

Formula first then stage 2 foods. Then as she gets older and is doing the chewing stuff better she can go to formula then stage 3 foods and at 1, after she is transitioned off formula she can do stage 3 foods or table foods all the time.

All three of my kids hated the 3rd foods. By the time they were ready to be introduced to the 3rd foods they went straight to table foods if they had enough teeth. Id stick to the 2nd foods and table foods.

Give her real food, have you ever tasted those? Gross. :)

My son usually had pureed that I made but did occasionally give him Gerber baby foods. That said, he ate stage one and twos fine - hated threes. Have you tried those things? Yuck. She's 9.5 months old, I would just skip over gerber stage three's and straight into table foods. She's the right age and that's what you have started a bit anyway, I would just go to that!

My kids both hated the 3rd. Weird textures!
We just went straight to full time table foods once the 2nds weren't enough for them.

So both of my kids were on full time table foods by 9mos.