Help introducing cat food to nursing kitten

Hi everyone! I foster for a local animal shelter. I have a mama cat with four kittens. They are two months old now. The two male kittens have been eating for weeks, regular bowel movements, and were adopted together to a wonderful family! I now still have belle and alice. They both still nurse from mama, but Belle now is eating canned food (first was some petsmart GNC kitten weaning formula, mixed w canned, and now canned mixed w dry so she's advancing along).
I can't get alice to take to anything! The GNC kitten weaning formula alone, or it mixed with canned food, or canned food alone. Tried chicken and or beef Beechnut baby formula too, but nope!
It's not an emergency-they're both doing well and have mama, just wondering any other way other than separating mom and baby, as vet suggested, which will be stressful for baby and mama. Any advice is appreciated.
Here's my little tough eater, Alice's photo.

Bless her little baby kitten heart. Is there any rush? Do you need to re-home her or adopt her out? Honestly, if there's no rush and the food is available, I wouldn't worry about it. Mama's milk will eventually dry up and she will learn to eat. Most kittens begin to eat wet food and kitten chow around 6 weeks, but weaning is a long process between 8 and 12 weeks. She will eventually get hungry and try food. My kittens are 11 weeks old and eating great, but by golly, they still love to nurse on mama, but she's slowly drying up, and they are learning. She looks like a doll! If there's no rush, and we don't advise separating mama and kittens until they are at least 12 weeks old, and she is healthy, I say you have nothing to worry about! So many forum posters have orphan kittens, this is a refreshing post!

I have just been through this process with 3 kittens, and had wonderful suppor from this site.  I wholehearedly support what @Sarthur2 has just posted. It'll be wonderful if there's no rush to separate them.  In my case there was a rush, as the mama cat was very undernourished being a stray who was trying to feed 5 hungry kittens (another foster carer took 2).

So my kittens had to be separated from their mother earlier than would have been ideal. The shelter gave me dry kitten food and wet kitten food.  They got the hang of the wet kitten food, but it gave two of the three diarrhea.  They didn't take to the dry food, so the shelter advised me to soak it in water before giving it to them.  It worked a treat.  I warmed the water a little first.

Perhaps you could give that a try, but as Sarthur2 said, if there's no hurry, then you have no problem leaving her longer.

All the best with your kitten fostering!

Thank you for this info! The woman at the shelter seems so shocked she isn't taking to any cat food, wet/dry, baby food, or weaning formula at all at 2 months old. I guess she is just a little slower than the others! There is no rush and they can stay with me until they are 100% ready to be adopted.

That is wonderful news!

Such good news. I have no fears for this little girl if she continues to feed well from her mother. Enjoy them!

Hey everyone! I started feeding Alice canned kitten food watered down so I could suck it up with a little syringe and slowly feed it into her mouth. She wasnt a big fan at first and then within a day or two, she was looking for the syringe and leaning her head towards it. Within a day or so, she began chomping on it. So I put some chunks of canned on the syringe, she licked it off. Then put chunks on my finger, which she licked off. Then led my finger to a little saucer and viola! She is now eating wet food

Fantastic! You did this just right! Yay, Alice!

No reason to rush - it all works out in the end. She's probably still nursing mama a bit too!