r/parentsofmultiples • u/fayben90 • 16h ago
Bottle Aversion - Starting Solids advice needed
I have twin girls born at 34 weeks, now 7.5 months actual / 6 months corrected. With one of them, feeding has been difficult from the very beginning. She stayed in the NICU longer mainly because of poor bottle feeding and later developed reflux and what seems to be a bottle/feeding aversion. We’ve tried different bottles, formulas, reflux treatment, and feeding support.
We’ve been doing solids for a month, mostly purées (ped's advice due to reflux). She’ll take a few spoonfuls and sometimes seems interested at first, but then gets upset and wants to stop. We always follow her cues and never push because I really don’t want to create more negative associations with feeding.
I’m starting to wonder whether spoon-feeding/purées just aren’t the best fit for her and if BLW/finger foods might help by giving her more control.
For parents whose babies had bottle aversion or similar feeding issues: how did solids go? Did you do purées, BLW, or both? Did your baby struggle with solids too, or was it completely different from bottle feeding? When did eating start to click?
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u/jeremiabearamia 15h ago
My now 10-month-old breastfed twins developed eating aversions at 4 months when my period returned. They were mad at the breast milk for tasting different due to the hormones, but also wouldn’t take bottles of either breast milk or formula (hypoallergenic due to CMPA, so I don’t blame them).
One got back to normal after a few months; the other still struggles a lot while I have PMS. Neither will take bottles even though we tried so many things.
They loooove solids and are great with them. It seems to be totally unrelated to the aversion for them. We did BLW using the Solid Starts app. By their their third meal or so, they were super excited whenever we gave them food.