Eating Issues with Almost 1 Year Old

This sounds pretty normal to me. You can still offer many foods as finger foods, just cut them into small squares. There are many toddler foods on the market as well for babies that are finger food ready. Somethings are just not neat and tidy. Like spaghetti. It's gonna be a mess, but they need to explore and begin to use utensils too. Anything you would mash, you should be able to offer little cubes of too.

As previous poster stated, at this age most of the nutrition is still derived from breastmilk/formula. If she's still hungry, she'll let you know! I wouldn't worry about it as long as she's still pooping and peeing.

Giver her WHATEVER! If she's ready to feed herself, she's ready. Cut it small, watch her closely. You will be very surprised what she can masticate at this stage. Teeth or not.
Our 17 month old pushed everything on a spoon away at 10.5 months. He still has only 8 teeth and eats what doesn't eat him first, including steak! (if you're going to try chicken, give her dark meat b/c its less fibrous and will almost melt in her mouth) Its messy but she will eat what she wants/needs.

she is WAY WAY WAY too young to go to only one nap. PLEASE keep her at 2 naps for at least another 4 to 8 months. I found in my years as a daycare provider that the majority of toddler tantrums and terrible twos are due to lack of sleep. You can make her morning nap less, waking her after an hour to an hour in a half, but don't eliminate them please.

Now about the eating, it sounds like she is RIGHT on track!! At that age their bodies need less energy as the growth slows down tremendously. So, it's ok for her to eat less. Also they should be on table food completely by 12 mos old, so she is telling you that she is right on schedule for that. Almost every single adult food can be chopped in small enough pieces or steamed to a mushy enough texture that she can eat it. Don't give her large portions either, they only have a stomach as big as their fist. A TABLESPOON of each food group is more then enough for a meal for her.

There is a great book that you might want to get, by William G Wilkoff, MD called Coping with a Picky Eater that every parent or provider of kids should read and have a copy of. http://www.amazon.com/Coping-Picky-Eater-Perplexed-Parent...

I have a 14 month old and she has been one finger food since she was about 10 months. She won't eat baby food anymore. She loves lunch meat, hotdogs, and chicken. The hotdogs I cut the skin off and cut into tiny pieces and the chicken they have frozen grilled chicken breasts or nuggets that she likes. I alway give fruit with cereal in the morning, vegtable and meat for lunch, and then fruit, vegtable, and meat for dinner. Just be patient and don't worry they won't starve themselves. If they are hungry they will eat. Try to feed her with finger food and she will pick up on it. Sometimes I still have to feed mine. My daughter has never really been on a schedule. Sometimes she doesn't eat much lunch, or dinner and sometimes both...but the next day she will eat. Hope this helps and don't worry they will eat when they are hungry.

Your child can still eat just about anything that you pureed before. I just lightly steamed things and then cut them into tiny little bites...carrots, apple, and so on.

She can eat so many things...rice, pasta, steamed veggies and fruits, (they have a mesh bag on a ring that you can put fruit and stuff in...they just gnaw it and suck it and get all the good stuff without a choking hazzard), small cut up bites of meat, scrambled eggs, cheese cut into tiny bites...like cheddar and so forth. The list goes on and on. Just make sure that it is semi-soft and cut into tiny bites.

JUst cook and slice what you use to puree. It may be too young to transition to one nap. ANd yes, out of routine can change a lot.

Sounds like she's growing up mommy. We can't stop them..it just happens all toooo soon. She's actually eating healthier by eating slow. The dr. want us to take 20-30 minutes per meal so our brain tells us our tummy is full. Hense, we chew a little longer and don't stuff as much. She could live on chicken stix, fish stix, pigs in a blanket, french toast stix,chickenwing drumette, rib bones, hot dog (not cut up),fresh veggies she can hold and maybe dip in cheese or peanut butter,soup broth in a sippy cup,bacon or sausage links,fruit in slices,etc. Good luck mommy

Hi. :) Our son is the same age. He also loves to eat finger food...cheese, meats, breads, pancakes, eggs, soft veggies/fruit - cut into small pieces. We give him stuff to pick up on his own and at the same time give him the pureed foods. As for naps, the same thing has happened here. :) I always remember what Marc Weissbluth states in Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child...sleep begets sleep. The more they get, the more they sleep and the happier they are. I would continue to promote a morning nap and afternoon nap by taking her up...reading and snuggling with her and then laying her down for any nap she will take. I would bet that as soon as it becomes a habit, she will begin to sleep more.

Good luck. :)
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The changes in routine could be affecting her - especially the nap thing. As she was turning 2 my daughter was still going back and forth between needing one or two naps - depending on the activity we had that day. I've always just tried to let them tell me (through their body language) if they need a nap or not and they wean down on their own.

Also, I've seen my kids go through stages. When they are growing their brain they need different things than when they are growing their bodies. Growth spurts in the body need more food than the brain ones. It may be that she's moved into a brain spurt stage instead - in which case you want to make sure she gets extra protein and a little bit more good fats (cheese is a wonderful way to give it to her) to help encourage brain growth.

I agree with the idea that many things can still be diced up to offer a similar diet to your daughter - some things just get put on the back burner until she's got a better handle on spooning/forking things into her mouth. There's still a few things I don't bother cooking (soup, mainly!) because my 2 1/2 year-old daughter is just not ready to handle it. However - sticky oatmeal breakfasts last winter was where she really started learning the spoon. Just be ready for her to get messy.

Good luck!

Congratulations on your almost 1 year old! - Amazing how much and quickly they grow. - My youngest just turned 1 last week and for the last month he has been BIG into self feeding. He's got about 6-8 teeth, although I think he is still big into "mushing" verses chewing.
One thing I have done as I too have worried about him getting enough, is set up a grazing area for him, inbetween meals. The high-chair we have lowers down so he can stand and reach the tray, so I throw cheerios, raisins. cooked carrots, soft granola bars, finely chopped chicken or other meats - anything that we eat and eat for meals and he eats, I just chop up finely for him, he eats for the meal ... and grazes.
If I think he's stuffing his mouth and we're getting into potential choking situations, I just limit what's on the tray. (or if what I put out there is too soft and it's turning into fingerpainting!)
Another thing that has worked, is I sit with him and spoon up some food for him, but then help HIM hold the spoon and he feeds himself. - Again, a slow and messy process, but he LOVES feeling like a big-boy feeding himself.
They are SO fun right now!

My son just recently turned one and he's had eating issues off and on because of teething. He would only eat finger foods when teething, nothing pureed. At that age, as long as babies are still getting a decent amount of formula or breast milk, they have most of the nutrition they need from that.
My son has recently started eating a lot of regular foods.
He eats almost an entire waffle most mornings for breakfast. He will also eat chicken nuggets and grilled cheese sandwiches.
Basically, whatever she will eat at this age, plus her milk or formula or whatever, and she should be fine.