CMPI 1yr old not interested in food

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My DS is coming up to 1, and it's proving a real struggle to get him to eat many things beyond quite a limited range. He is CMPI, but refused Neocate and Pepti so I have been Bfing him on a dairy free diet since he was around 5months. Im happy to keep feeding him for now, though its trickier now I am at work 3days so expressing for a lunchtime feed.

He's a very active chap, and pretty lean and long, and i would like to find a few high calorie treats to woo him with - but he's just not terribly interested in food, and never actively seems to seek it out, even when its in front of him! DH and I are not great foodies, so I wonder if its just the way he is, or if some babies click with food later than others?

Have made some little dairy free apple buns with Pure and EBM, he ate a little bit of one, then lost interest. Can anyone suggest some dairy free treats or homemade bits that worked for you?

TIA!

Oooh dairy free apple buns, can I have the recipe please??

With regarda to your concern, my eldest barely ate a thing. He was long and skinny like your baby. He is 5 now, still long and skinny but eats me out of house and home.

I have an 11 month old, sometimes he eats loads, sometimes he'll go a week with eating nothing at all. Just bf's.

Breastmilk is super high in calories so keep plugging at that, pump and put it in his cereal and stuff.

Avacados are another good one.

Cereal, oh would that he would eat cereal! No weetabix, no porridge, nada. Have wasted several ounces of frozen EBM in the attempts! thanks for the advice though, weve tried avocado mashed with a bit of banana which he ate some of when distracted with a favourite book, so ill keep going on that one. I need some fish recipes i think, hes not that into fish and that would be a really good food to get him into...

DS will only eat Plum (the make) porridge verrrrry milky. Hes fussy about breakfast too.

Maybe ask for a referral to a dietician?

Thanks so much for the recipe btw!

DS1 is CMPI and loves the Annabel Karmel Salmon Footballs, I'll type up the receipe and PM you it tomorrow when I'm on laptop. They are a bit time consuming to make but I make it batches and freeze.

No worries! We do see a dietician every two months, but they dont seem too worried so long as he doesnt plummet through the centiles like he did when first diagnosed. Plum, i'll give that a go and see if the little tyke goes for it, thanks!

Mine is fussy too! I just have to keep trying different things. She loves Organix corn snacks though (tomato flavoured) could eat those for England! Eggy bread for breakfast worked for a while, we give her fried eggs with soldiers just now (she's a bit older, so OK with not cooked hard all the way through). On the fish line, we steam salmon (easy peasy just don't cook too long or goes hard) but you could pan fry it and accompany that with sautéed potatoes (we use olive oil). In fact, our dietitian recommended putting an extra spoon of oil in Baby's portion to keep up the calorie content. I never have, 'cos she looks OK, but for you, it might be useful. Hummingbird Bakery Cake days have a really lovely chocolate muffin recipe which is dairy free and they are lovely! PS have been working on a blog re. Baby dairy free breakfasts, if you're interested, it's just a bit long, so it's taken me a while!

Babies get most of their nutition from breastmilk (or formula) until they are at least a year old, so I wouldn't worry too much at this stage.

My DS was (and still is) the same with food. He seems to survive on scarcely anything, and the 16 month lad I childmind for eats twice what he does. However, DS has been on the 9th centile for most of his life (i.e. skinny but fine) and his dietician isn't worried about him at all.

Avocado is a good idea (although my DS won't touch it). I sometimes try to get fat into DS by feeding him chips without salt and those salt 'n' shake crisps without any salt added. Other than that, I just feed him a vaguely balanced diet and try not to stress about it more than I can help!

I know this thread is a little old but I have just come across it and thought I'd post in case it helps with a hopeful ending... DS was also allergic to cow's milk protein and was completely uninterested in food. Despite my best efforts to trust that he would take what he needed and reassurance from the dietician I was fairly preoccupied with his weight and the fact that no matter what I put in front of him he'd have a couple of spoonfuls at best... He trailed around the 0.2nd centile weight-wise. I know this is not the story for everyone but he is now five, outgrew his allergy between 3 and 4 and although he is not that interested in food (eats to live) he does enjoy a really wide range of foods (I guess not being interested in ANY food meant that he was not faddy) and was weighed last month at school and was firmly on the 50th centile. I wish I could go back and give the 'one year old parent me' the news and encouragement to hang in there and to really believe what I tried to tell myself that my job was to put a range of nutritious, tasty and safe foods in front of him and his to choose what and how much to eat. I can really remember what it was like and so am sending that encouragement to you - hope your story has a similar ending and that you all keep smiling in the meantime. I'm now back on the allergy rollercoaster with DD who is allergic to egg... ho hum!