DCG Just Won't Eat

[Breezy]

I am getting increasingly frustrated with DCGs eating habits as the days go on. She is almost 11 months old but born early so the size of a 6 month old. She wants nothing to do with food. She has had only one bottle since getting here today andit was 4 ounces. She also ate some cherrios but any other jar baby food I give her she spits out and is now due for another bottle and she wont eat it.

I can never get her to take more than 1 ounce at a time. So frustrating!

[sharlan]

How well does she eat at home?

[Breezy]

Mom says she does fine. Dad says she gets really distracted and isnt interested in it anymore.

[sharlan]

Will she eat tiny bites of regular food?

[countrymom]

do you have rice cereal. I found that if they didn't like their food they would eat rice cereal. also do they warm her bottle.

[cheerfuldom]

Is this every day? If so, you need to know EXACTLY how mom gets her to eat at home. What time? What amount? spoon feeding or self feeding? What foods? How long does it take? If mom cant give you clear instructions on what works, then you know that the "she does fine" is just words and not the truth.

Its up to you then, if you just let her do her thing at daycare or you insist on further actions, like a doctors visit or something

[Breezy]

Mom brings her food every day so it is usually jarred food, cheerios, vanilla waffers, and puffs. Today she had yogurt finally. I let dad know at pick up she barely ate again. Mom says there has to be zero distracrions at home to get her to eat. She doesnt seem hungry though after the one or tqo ounces and dew bites of food!

[KBCsMommy]

Find out exactly how dcm makes the bottles and exactly how she feeds it to her. How are they feeding her foods, is dcd or dcm getting frustrated feeding her?? These are all questions I would ask them.

I had a new dcb 8 months who didn't eat for a week here, dcm finally told me she had never held him to eat and he was propped in his pack and play in front of the tv to eat!!
She also fed him baby food in a syringe!!

After a month he finally started drinking a bottle here, and he would let me spoon feed him a little bit.

I started having him eat more finger foods that he could feed him self and that has worked wonders. Now hes turning a year and I've introduced him to a sippy cup so we will see how that goes!!

Good Luck!!

[cheerfuldom]

Find out exactly how dcm makes the bottles and exactly how she feeds it to her. How are they feeding her foods, is dcd or dcm getting frustrated feeding her?? These are all questions I would ask them.

I had a new dcb 8 months who didn't eat for a week here, dcm finally told me she had never held him to eat and he was propped in his pack and play in front of the tv to eat!!
She also fed him baby food in a syringe!!

After a month he finally started drinking a bottle here, and he would let me spoon feed him a little bit.

I started having him eat more finger foods that he could feed him self and that has worked wonders. Now hes turning a year and I've introduced him to a sippy cup so we will see how that goes!!

Good Luck!!

you see OP? specific questions to the parents are very enlightening. this is very likely a problem that is at home and that parents are not being truthful about. I really think that is the case since mom says everything is fine but dad admits there are some issues. Red flag!

[Heidi]

you see OP? specific questions to the parents are very enlightening. this is very likely a problem that is at home and that parents are not being truthful about. I really think that is the case since mom says everything is fine but dad admits there are some issues. Red flag!

yep! red flag!

You need to more or less force mom to be VERY specific. If you don't, then you'll muddle through this, and 3 months from now, you'll have another situation, and again you'll get 2 different answers, and so on...

The mom I just termed had a head-in-the-sand coping strategy, and after a year, I couldn't do it anymore.

You can't spend hours on end every day undoing something that happens at home, not even knowing what exactly IS happening at home....

[countrymom]

no distractions, are you kidding me???? so what do they do, turn the tv off the phone is off, everyone sits still till she is done. Good luck!

[Breezy]

They use the premix formula for preemies and mom brings jarred baby food and spoons and all snack type things. The only thing they really do to help her eat is make sure she is not distracted. Which is fine here when others are napping but that is usually not the case!

[countrymom]

I think its time that she gets off of the preemie formula and onto older stuff. To me, it sounds likes they want to keep her in the "baby stage" I bet you I'm right. Also, does she sit on thier laps when they feed her. Check the nipple too, heck start switching her over to a sippy cup.

[Breezy]

She sits in the bumbo to eat still. They have kind of started with sippy cups but DCG can still only feed herself her bottle for a few seconds and doesnt understand them. she then gets upset and wiggles out of my arms or tries to roll because she doesnt want to eat.

She frequently wakes at 3am for the day and mom will come at 7 with DCG in jammies still saying that she didnt want to eat but is hungry now.... She will take an ounce and be done!

[countrymom]

sounds like the problem starts at home. I'm mean, so I would put her in a highchair offer her the food, is she eats then fine, if not well you offered. Sometimes there is nothing you can do till the parents get a schedual that works. When she is hungry she will eat. don't worry she won't starve, just make sure you document and you write down what the parents say when you tell them. also, she needs to have a bottle before she comes to your house. gently mention to mom that she needs to feed her before she comes to you, then she won't be so hungry.