My son gave up baby food before he gave up the bottle, and I took away the bottle the week after his first birthday. He then went on what I like to call the "Cheerio Diet (tm)." He alternated between eating mass quantities of red grapes, Cheerios by the bucket, and yogurt.

And that was it.

At nearly four years old, my son will now eat nearly anything. He even eats asparagus. I don't know why I was so worried!

My daughter was toothless until the week before her birthday, and she was able to gum anything with ease.

 

That's good to know. My son is 18 months and only now just settling in with real people food. I was worried about the teeth thing, too, because he didn't have any molars until about a month ago. With my second due any day now, I was anxious about have to puree and spoon feed him all the while caring for a newborn.

Hopefully his little sister will follow in YS' footsteps and transition earlier.

 

at 7 months old my son rejected baby food outright. I called the ped. and they said "give him table food." I was shocked. But, he ate it right up and never looked back.
I think if I ever had a 2nd one I would skip baby food. It's really an american invention. In other countries, babies get what the parents are eating, and none of this, start with cereal,then vegetables, then fruit, then meats nonsense.

 

Thanks for the post Alex!

At the moment Signal is eating breakfast (usually avocado mixed with some other fruit and cereal) and supper (a veggie or two, some fruit and a few rice puffs), but he seems more like OS in his relaxed approach to it all.

He's currently still taking in about 32 ounces of formula a day, so I'm not exactly worried about that. I'm just not sure that I can see a total cut off of formula at a year. Only time will tell!

 

Oh good, somebody else obsesses about what their kids eat. To hear the women in my family talk, "kids will eat what they'll eat" and you are NOT to concern yourself with it or you'll end up one of those calorie-counting freaks who steers her kids into anorexia or obesity. Mine is NOT into table food.

With the severe reflux and the constant feeding problems, I'm always noting every bite/drop that goes in my kid's mouth. Mine's 8 1/2 months, and has shunned table chicken (and jarred meat of any kind, for that matter). She will, however, eat little pieces of pasta from your soup, and BOY howdy, you'd better hand over that orzo the minute the waitress drops the bowl on the table.

Glad my kid isn't the only one who will definitely be a late bloomer, table food-wise.

 

I was paranoid enough about nutrition to continue offering a cup of formula until my son was 15 months or so. (Forget the exact age.) It is more nutritious than cow's/soy milk, thanks to the addition iron.

Now that he is 3, unless he is sick, I figure my job is to serve a healthy variety of food, and let him eat it.

I think with formula in particular, it is easy for FTMs to become obsessed with measuring, and the switch from 32 ounces of formula a day to none can be rough ground because who really knows what actually ends up in their mouths? :)