To be really frustrated that teething DD will only eat Milupa for past few weeks now at the end of my tether!!

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My dd started solids at 6 months & I finished up breastfeeding at 7 months. She is on aptimal & took to the bottle so well. She used to be a fantastic eater. Would have porridge(milupa) for brekkie, puree moving onto mashed veg for lucnch & meat/fish mixed with sweet potato etc for dinner.
For the past 4/6 weeks since she started cutting her top teeth she has gone off all fruit/veg/meat refuses point blanc, I have tried to leave her self feed makes no difference, she has no interest in finger foods either.....
At the moment she is having milupa cereal for breakfast, pieces of toast(which she will spit out) & yoghurt for lunch then she will will have a milupa cereal for dinner e.g bedtime fruity/cereal, banana bedtime & a yoghurt.
She will have 3 8oz bottles of aptimal so shes getting 24oz of milk a day.
Also I do offer her puree & meat/veg for lunch/dinner she just refuses. As I said she is teething? What am I going to do? Is she getting enough to eat. Growth wise she is off the chart for height & 75th percentile for weight.

Sounds like she is doing fine but I totally get the frustration and worry. My go to meal for my dd is toast. I can pretty much guarantee she will eat toast. For months though all she would eat was rice cakes.

She sounds like she is getting plenty to eat so just keep offering - even if it is infuriating!

That's what they do, I would worry when she refuses to eat anything apart from green bacon.

Sorry forgot to mention she's 10 months!!!! I'm just afraid she's missing out on new textures, tastes etc as the milupa & yoghurt is so smooth & she just keeps spitting out the toast!

Honestly don't worry. My DD was only just taking solids at that stage. She will get stuck in again.

Thanks a million, thats good to know x I'm trying to relax as I know she's getting 24oz of milk but when I see how much other friends 10 month old eats along with this babies "sophisticated palate"(its moms words not mine!!!!) I feel like a failure:(

Bah, babies don't ever have sophisticated palates but they can have pretentious wanker parents.

They either eat what you put in front of them or they don't, this is also subject to change on a hour by hour basis.

Yy to it changing. They would try poo if you put it in front of them so your pal will hardly be getting an award for honing a 'sophisticated palate' in her offspring.

I found my dd ate more when I relaxed completely. Very hard to do and in all honesty the child minder pretty much weaned her as I was too fraught. Anything I say is with the benefit of hindsight.

Psml re the poo! I guess she is getting her nutrition from the milupa as it is fortified but I feel she is missing out & I'm afraid she'll be a fussy eater... Even with toast the last couple of days she chews, gags then takes out of her mouth... She used to be an amazing eater!!!

My love, at 10m all there was available for my DS to eat for a week or so was Mango.

Bless him, he ate mango morning noon and night with some porridge.

I was thousands of miles away from civilisation home, height of summer, only seasonal fruit and veg that he wasn't able to eat because it was too soon.

I worried that he'd be the fussiest kid alive.

He's 8yrs old in a couple of weeks and I swear that if you put salt and pepper on a chair he'd have a go.

Your baby's teething, maybe her teeth hurt, try mushed up carrots, courgettes and see if it's the chewing/biting or just the sensation.

You'll get past this bit soon, and in the future you'll struggle to remember this. It will sort itself out. As long as she's well, good weight etc, that's fine.

((hug))

That's normal when they're teething. They just want soft food for a while, dd would eat only scrambled eggs, porridge, creamed potatoes and vegetable soup when she was teething really badly. Her appetite would also reduce by about two thirds and she would insist on extra bottles.

Don't make a big deal out of it and don't stress over her limited diet, she won't starve, once her teeth have come through her appetite will be back with a vengeance.

If you stress out about it then its quite likely to turn into an issue.

As long as she is ok growth wise,don't fret. She will go back to whats normal for her when her mouth stops hurting and she gets used to the strange sensations that new teeth cause.

Changes in the mouth are very weird for the mouths owner it takes a while to become accustomed to them.

Ds is 10 months and seems to go off food a bit when he's teething. He only wants soft foods and has extra bottles, which must be cold, presume because his gums are sore. He cut another tooth a week ago and my lord is he making up for it now. There's no filling him at the moment! He will happily eat his food then look over at what we have banging on his high chair until we share it! So don't worry.

You know you can just say she has porridge for breakfast not milupa! Iv never even heard of that so it makes more sense as people will understand. You don't say she has hovis and black bob do you, you just say toast and cheese :)