Help needed!!!

[JayRoo]

Hello everyone I’m looking for some help or advice.

My son is 16 months old and we started weaning at 6 months old and everything was going great until he cut his first two teeth and since then I’m finding it incredibly difficult to get him to eat anything.

I’ve spoken with the health visitor and she said as he’s putting weight on she wasn’t worried and to just give him what he’ll eat.

He’ll have a few bites or spoonfuls of whatever is in front of him but he will refuse to have anymore. I’ve tried everything I can possibly think of from giving him jars of food to home cooked meals and nothing seems to work. If he just being fussy? Or have I gone wrong somewhere?

Are you spoonfeeeding or BLW?

Whichever, try the other?

I’m trying both

I really wouldn't worry - your health visitor is right - he is putting on weight, so all is well.

Toddlers do have these ups and downs of appetite, and I suspect that the more bothered you are by it, the more he'll resist. If you give him his food and let him have what he wants, and then no big deal if he leaves it, this will blow over pretty quickly I think.

Toddlers aren't generally known for starving themselves. But they are well-known for spotting a potential battle, to assert their growing independence and understanding of themselves as separate people. When food is involved, parents will often find themselves in a tug of war to get them to eat, when the best course of action might be to put down the rope.

Keep mealtimes as a social thing rather than a 'you must eat' thing, and he will soon be eating along with you as second nature.