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She's 10 months old and only on bottles and cereals still? Or is she eating other foods like meats, veggies, and fruits? By this stage, she should be eating a lot more. Depending on how well she chews, finger foods like pasta and dry cereal could be introduced too. Mashed up carrots are usually a good start for veggies, along with sweet potatoes.

A full tummy definitely helps nap time go easier. Although some kids just grow out of nap time earlier than others, 10 months seems pretty early.

Have you talked to her doctor about her diet? And she's crawling/walking?

She really should be getting like two servings of fruit, two of veggies, and serving of meat a day along with the cereal/grain.

Like for breakfast, cereal with something like a mashed banana, or applesauce or mashed pear are good starters.

Then for lunch, a serving of meat (for fruits and veggies, it's pretty easy to make your own baby food if you don't want to buy jars of it, but for meat, I was scared and bought baby jars in case the meat was under-cooked), and a serving of veggie.

And dinner, veggies and fruit again, with cereal/grain like pasta or rice.

And bottles in between or after she eats, but I always found it was better not to give one before or with the meal, because then they'd fight me more because there was an easier option for them. Also fun to have more pick me up foods as snacks too in between meals.

Gerber has good charts on daily diet. I think it was 4 months you introduce cereals, and around 5-6 months, you add fruit and other foods. Because at 12 months, the bottle starts getting pretty phased out fairly quickly and cow's milk can be used. It's good that you've already tried sippy cups and regular cups.

And bear in mind, every child is different and there's no perfect way to do anything. As long as she's growing and happy, don't worry. But it probably would help a lot to introduce her to new foods, and just keep trying a new food every couple days, depending on how she reacts (no allergies, right?). But having a bigger diet should help her tummy be more full, and she'll likely want to start sleeping more.

Peas in applesauce probably doesn't taste the best. And babies are so amazing at that. One of our kids used to be able to seperate foods within her mouth, so if we gave her a bite of food she liked along with a new food, somehow she could seperate them in her mouth, swallow her favorite food, and keep the new food in her cheeks and then spit it out. It was both awe inspiring and irritating.

We used to give them mashed carrots or sweet potatoes, since most kids love those veggies. Then was started sneaking in a few mashed peas with the carrots, and mixing it all up so it still looked orange and tasted almost the same. Then we kept increasing the amount of peas until it was more half and half and greener, then finally, just peas.

Adding food with mashed potatoes worked too. Blenders are great, because they would eat anything as long as it was mashed. It was when they turned one and we moved on to little pieces of veggies that they finally started to rebel. They hadn't minded the tastes as much as they disliked the chewing and texture. Although then they liked brocoli with cheese. And salads with a little bit of ranch dressing and cheese. Or scrambled eggs with slim bits of tomato added. And pizza was always great to sneak in veggies. And I think there are recipes about hiding things like spinach in brownies, or carrot cake, or fruit in muffins and breads.

But they used to kick and scream too when we first indroduced veggies. Sometimes we would let them watch a video while they ate to distract them and keep them calm. We just didn't give up and let them know they were going to eat veggies, even if it took over an hour to do some nights.

This thread is reminding me how hard it used to be to get them to eat all the food groups. It was really stressful at the time. Taking turns feeding while the other person walked away for a little while helped. And setting achievable goals like "Just two bites of this veggies this meal" to "Tonight, she'll eat half a jar" and finally "Wow, she ate this whole jar!" But just keep at it, and eventually she'll start liking her food. It's just the intial fear/shock that she needs to get over. She will stop fussing so much, it just feels like forever.

Sorry lovefuneral, going to disagree here.

My oldest was stubborn about eating. Heck, he went through a year where it was a pretty small diet of things he would eat. Lo and behold he's 6 and eats what is given to him.

I think a 10 month old isn't the age to sit there and be making a huge fight out of food. She's still learning the tastes, textures. Sometimes, and I know it was for my oldest, they will gag and have what is called "texture aversion" but a lot of kids grow out of.

She's still 10 months old. I don't think withholding even BM or formula is the best thing. Technically, that is their main source of nutrition until they hit the first year, and for some even after. Also, don't forget their portions are much smaller than sometimes we think!

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for my kids eating what's given, but I think a baby is the wrong time to start the fights. I couldn't imagine sitting there making a barely walking baby have to get back up in the highchair with food every 20 minutes demanding they eat it. My kids know (2 and 6) that they can eat their food or not. I'm not going to push it, but I'm not going to cater and let them have dessert afterwards. If they say they are hungry, they can finish the leftovers. I like what kim said about baby step goals, trying here and there. Try soups, or even non jarred foods. Ig her peds aren't concerned and she's growing, it'll happen with time.