My daughter is 14 months old. I am a 37F, and she is our first (and likely only) child. My spouse and I have been married for nine years now, and struggled with infertility for almost six years before we finally managed to get a pregnancy to stick.For the most part, she is literally the perfect kid. She was born perfectly healthy, on my mums birth date, at my birth weight, which really made her as first grandchild extra special. She has always been incredibly self sufficient and independent, even as a little baby. She started sleeping through the night at three months without me having to really do anything. She started self comforting on her own, gave up the pacifier on her own, gave herself her own bedtime of 8pm and is very good about telling us when she's ready for sleep, same thing with adjusting to nap times. She sleeps straight through from 8pm to 7am almost every night. She has been sick one time, for one day. I can count on my hand how many times I've had trouble getting her to sleep at night, and she wakes up with a nightmare maybe once every two weeks, and goes right back to sleep for the rest of the night after maybe ten minutes of cuddling.Not having to teach her to be self sufficient for the most part is pretty amazing. But now that she's a little older, it's leading to some interesting problems. Namely, intense stubbornness. She hasn't had milk to drink in over a month, as we are weaning from the bottle, and she absolutely and adamantly refuses to take milk in a cup. We've tried everything: soft spouts, hard spouts, 360 cups, open cups, lidded cups, straws... You name it, we've tried it. She just flat out refuses. I make sure she gets enough dairy through other means like yogurt and cheese, and I make her morning cereal with whole milk, too. She also gets a bottle of toddler formula to supplement at night before bed, mostly because I want to make sure she's getting at least some milk in. She does drink two or three full sippy cups of water every day and one of juice, so she gets plenty of fluids otherwise.She is also obsessed with her food. She refuses to take finger food of any kind (except for French fries, thanks Dad!) crackers, and arrowroot cookies. Even her favorite foods, she won't touch unless it's a puree or as smooth as one (ie. baby cereal). She's also obsessed with food pouches. Sometimes she won't eat anything at all unless it comes out of a pouch, and I've had to buy refillable pouches to get her to eat. She would rather eat an entire pouch of pureed broccoli than a bite from a cup of her favourite treat, mixed berry applesauce. Even older baby food with textures is sometimes problematic. She'll generally eat from a bowl, but only if she sees me squeeze it out of a pouch first. If she starts refusing, she'll take it from a bowl if I put a little of anything from a pouch on top of the spoonful of food from the bowl.It's not a motor skill problem. She's learning to use a spoon on her own, and can interact with toys right on schedule for her age. She's learning to walk and talk just fine, and listens to 'no' and other simple instructions without any issue. She's even learning different animal sounds. She's hardly in danger of starving, either, as she measures in the 100 percentile of both size and weight for her age, and is perfectly proportioned. She's about the size of an average two year old. She needed her 12-18m clothes starting at 10 months and will likely need her 18-24m clothes when she's 16m or so, as some of them are already looking a big snug.So I guess my question is, should I worry about her 'whole food' aversion? Or do you think she'll get it on her own when she's ready? Is there anything I can do to help her explore finger foods other than just keep offering them? via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/3hvFvYj
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