Son Turning 1 - Dallas,TX

My daughter is 12 months as of last week and has 2 teeth. She eats only solid foods, no baby food and is still breastfeeding.
Breakfast options: eggs, toast with butter, any type of pumpkin, banana, etc bread, blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, bananas.
Lunch & Dinner options: lunch meat, grilled cheese, mac & cheese, pinto beans, black beans, grated cheese, zuccini, squash, peas, carrots, raviolli, spaghetti, and if I make something not spicy for dinner like a roast she will eat what we eat.

Whole milk.... but maybe wean him a bit and not a cold turkey thing. Some kids end up aquiring a taste for it and hopefully he won't be one to Not like it.
Baby food I would think .....Apple Sauce, 1/2 size cheerios, cut up cheese, cottage cheese, melt away biscuts from gerber.

i would think that lots of baby food for the main meals until he has more teeth.

Blenders become your best friend :)

My daughter is 15 months and has her 4 front teeth top and bottom. She has been taking small pieces of whatever we are eating since she was 9 months old. As long as it is not too tough, she can eat it just fine! She loves small pieces of cheese, banana, blueberries, grape quarters, raspberries, avocado, canned pears, cooked carrots or any other soft veggies, frozen peas (she loves these!), pasta. I pretty much give her almost everything. She likes yogurt, pancakes, eggs, waffles. She likes tiny pieces of soft sandwiches, ravioli, rice with butter. She loves orange quarters. She likes saltines with peanut butter as a snack. If it is soft enough she eats it! She can gum most things really well. We give her whole milk and water in a sippy cup during the day as well. The whole milk took some getting used to. She did not like it at first but now she likes it a lot. At dinner time she gets whatever we are eating supplemented with some soft food (like avocado pieces). She will get her own spoon and fork and food in a little bowl. She LOVES trying to feed herself with her spoon/fork and is getting quite good at it. Sometimes she is in a mood and throws a lot of her food to the dogs! Anyway, I hope this gives you some ideas. Have fun feeding your son!

Go to the Gerber website under Nutrition and Feeding. From there you can utilize the Interactive Menu Planner. It's pretty awesome and worked well for me. Or, discuss it with your pediatrician. Good luck!

My 1 yr old (13 mos) son loves finger foods and has 4 teeth.

Breakfast:
Whole milk or smoothie(w/ whole milk, banana, berries)
cheerios or oatmeal
mandarin oranges or blackberries or banana....

Lunch:
soft pasta, with or without spaghetti sauce
small chunks of carrots (soft of course)
bread cut into small bite sized pieces.

Snack:
Crackers
apple
Whole milk

Dinner:
chicken (in chunks) or beef or fish (salmon...)
Green beans
rice cereal
whole milk

My son eats almost everything I eat. I simply serve different fruits, vegetables and meat in soft bite sized pieces. I try to minimize the juice (appx 1 oz once a week) and sweet treats. However, once in a while a little cookie or birthday cake is okay for my lil one. Hope this helps!

Wean slowly, don't just cut him off cold turkey. Its bad for both of you, so don't just stop, cut out one feeding at a time for a week, then another feeding for a week. It should be a gradual thing so you don't harm yourself or him.

He should be eating table foods. Jarred baby food is not very healthy and at almost a year old, no matter the teeth he has, he should be eating table foods. Common sense of course, don't give him a steak, just cut everything into tiny bits and give him a plate and a fork and let him eat. He can self regulate, thats the beauty of babies self feeding. :)

Also remember that he needs to remain rear facing in his car seat! Google 'Internal decapitation' and 'Joels journey' for more information on why he should remain rear facing in his car seat for at least another year.

Congrats on the one year nursing mama!

My daughter just turned one. She drinks either whole milk, water or juice out of a sippy cup mainly but at night time she likes her milk in a bottle. She eats yogurt, applesauce, apple slices with out skin, banana's, cheddar cheese, sandwich meat, hot dogs sliced small, ham, steamed veggies like baby carrots, zucchini, squash, brocolli. She loves anything she can feed herself so steamed baby carrots are good bc she can hold them and they're smushy. Gerber makes veg ravioli without sauce that she loves and they make little turkey wennies that she eats. She does have 8 teeth and thinks she can eat anything and everything! Once at 11 months she grabbed a hand full of popcorn and stuffed it in her mouth! I went into panic mode but she chewed it all up and swallowed no prob!

Well, if he is anything like my son, you may find that giving up breastfeeding is not entirely your decision. My son is almost 15 months. At 12 months I started offering him whole milk. He only just in the past couple of weeks has decided that milk is worth taking more than one sip of. He loves water though. Is he used to drinking out of a cup or bottle? If he won't drink the whole milk, it's not the end of the world. Many kids don't drink milk. He can have water and diluted juices, and then just make sure he gets enough calcium from other foods in his diet. My son loves yogurt and cheese, so I don't really worry about his milk intake. I still give him a vitamin supplement every day, and I still breastfeed at night and sometimes just before naptime, but he is slowly weaning himself.

As for other table foods, you can give him anything you want, just make sure it can be easily mashed and/or it is cut up in tiny pieces so he doesn't choke. I started out just letting my son taste whatever we were eating, and if he shows interest then I follow his lead. My son at 12 months only had 2 teeth as well. All of a sudden, now he has 8. But I haven't really based his diet on his teeth. Some foods he eats regularly are: plain, full fat yogurt mixed with pureed fruit and some whole grain baby cereal; cut up bananas; cut up oranges (remove all membranes and seeds); pinto beans; small bits of chicken/turkey/beef; cut up cooked broccoli; chicken noodle soup; diced string cheese; animal crackers; cheerios... and then I still give him the jarred foods to round it all out, but not everyday. A lot of moms have recommended to me the website www.wholesomebabyfood.com, and I think it's a great resource to get some ideas on what types of foods to offer and how to prepare them.

Happy Birthday to your little guy! Don't forget to let him have some cake on his big day!!

So many GREAT questions that all of us have had. With regards to the milk, since your babies body needs to learn how to break down the protein in milk and establish whether or not he will have an allergic reaction, you should wean him onto the whole milk. Offer a bottle/sippy cup with 3/4 formula or breast milk and 1/4 whole milk. Do this for 1 week to see how he reacts. If no issues or signs of allergies, do 1/2 and 1/2 for another week. Do this until he is on a full bottle/sippy cup of milk!

With regards to food, I give my son everything and have been feeding him table food since he was 6 months. LITTLE pieces of course. The things you can't give him is peanuts, grapes, & honey. Today, at 15 months, my son loves steak, chicken, pork, mashed potatoes, rice, pasta, etc. The earlier you introduce new foods, the better his tastebuds will develop. Depending on how many teeth he has, I would suggest trying mashed potatoes, avocados (mashed up) and anything smooth like that. They also have a Food Pop holder at Babies R Us that has a mesh bag that you can put food into so your son get learn about the different kinds of tastes. I used one for fruits (I put pieces of oranges in there... yummy - messy but yummy) and one for meats (I put pieces of steak or chicken) and he would just suck the juices. This way he was getting some protein too. Little by little your son will be eating everything you do!!!

Good luck!

25 years ago, I cut my first-born off from breast-feeding at exactly 1-year-old. WORST decision I ever made in my life. Back then, I thought that's what you were supposed to do. I didn't know that a child is still getting antibodies to whatever flu is going around in the mother's milk. I didn't know that a serving of store-bought pasteurized & homogenized milk is like feeding your child liquid sheetrock. My advice is to sit back, relax, let the child wean himself. My 2nd born weaned herself right at 2 years - - she just forgot to nurse one morning because she was so excited to start playing. Then she forgot to nurse that evening, too. She was just done. She went straight to a sippy cup, even tho' a bottle was an option. Back then I was buying raw goat milk. But #2 child refused to drink milk after she was done breastfeeding. She's 23 years old now & still doesn't drink milk, but will eat yogurt & cheese. Two websites that I've come across recently in regards to educating oneself on nutrition are below. I am still learning things I'd wish I'd known when I was your age. www.westonaprice.org and www.realmilk.com