15 month old wont eat anything but snacks or or a bottle

[Mommie2rkfr]

DD is teething with her 7th tooth and shes been really fussy and she doesn't let me feed her more than a fourth of the big jars of food. All she'll eat for me are her animal crackers or vanilla wafers. its driving me insane. I've tried to get her to eat "big girl" food and she just gets mad and throws a fit. And she stopped taking her sippy cup too now that I've switched from the silicone ones to the hard plastic ones.  I'm not sure how to get her to eat what i give her without having a fit or how to get her to take her sippy cup since she seems to reject anything besides junk and a bottle now. She is usually a good eater and with eat everything i put on her tray but lately its driving me bonkers. i cant figure out how to get her to eat actual food instead of jarred baby food..

Edited by Mommie2rkfr - 8/22/11 at 6:12am

[Jenni1894]

Do you have one of those mesh baby feeders?  it's like a mesh pouch with a round handle.  you can put food in there and it clicks shut, so nothing comes out.  I always did fruits, especially frozen grapes when my babies were teething.   Maybe if you let her gnaw on that for a little while it will get her to want to eat more real and releave some of her teething pain.  When my ODD was teething she would not like to be fed b/c I guess the spoon hurt her sore gums or something.   I thought about putting a cube of her baby food in the mesh bag, but never did. 

[FrugalGranolaMom]

I second the recommendation for the mesh feeders. We also used those with frozen fruit with DS when he was teething badly and it helped. Another thing we introduced that he still loves are the fruit/veggie pouches by Happy Baby, Plum Organics, Ella's Kitchen, etc. He was able to hold them and feed himself without fussing. That might help your DD transition to allowing you to feed her other foods.