Hi all,
My son is 8 months old, we weaned him around 5.5 months but truthfully he has never really been interested in food.
He never took to the single veg purées particularly well (will ALWAYS eat fruit / sweet stuff though). He will often eat fish and sweet potato purées but pretty much anything else he just cries and whinges their entire time he's in his high chair. He either doesn't open his mouth, or he just pushes it out with his tongue. I've even tried doing finger foods which he sometimes will play around with (some goes in but VERY LITTLE) but half the time he just stares at it or again, whinges.
He is still a very good sleeper (sleeps from 7-7:30) and gaining weight, but has never had a huge appetite even when exclusively breastfed. So I don't worry that he's not getting enough nutrition from my milk, it's more than I am concerned that he isn't getting what he needs nutritionally from food - or worse still that he will just never really eat properly.
Help!!!! Has anyone been through this and what can I do to try to encourage him to be a better eater? I'm happy to go full steam ahead on finger foods but what do I do if he's not even bothering to try and pick it up?
It's honestly causing me so much stress and upset as it feels like it's my fault. I used to always end up just giving him fruit if he refused anything else, or hiding vegetables underneath a bit of fruit purée to encourage him to eat it!! But now I worry that I've made him so spoiled that he knows he'll get the sweet stuff so thinks "f your chicken mum I'm here for the mango".
Any words of advice or just someone to talk me off this ledge would be great. For the first 6 months of his life he genuinely was the perfect baby (cliche) but he is happy, healthy and content in every other way and reaching all his milestones early so this is the first thing that I've truly struggled with in motherhood so far.
Thanks all for listening xx
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muddypuddles12 · 01/01/2020 11:24
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