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9 Months old totally gone off solids

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Paulacarl · 27/11/2010 20:40

Hi,
Our Tom is nine and a half months now and up to two weeks ago I would have said he was a decent enough eater. He was eating a reasonable variety of foods (vegies, pulses, meat, fish, pasta etc) and using a mixture of finger foods and spoon feeding. These last two weeks he's just completely changed. He mostly just totally refuses spoon feeding and often eats very little of his finger food. The only real exception to this is breakfast - when he will sometimes accept a whole bowl of weetabix and banana being spoon fed to him - and sometimes at other meals if he's offered sweet things (he will very adeptly feed himself one of my Mum's meringues!)
I'm getting really quite worried. We sometimes get next to no food down him in a day and he's point blank refusing things that he was eating 2 weeks ago. Also, I'm worried about reaching a point where he'll only eat sweet stuff. (But if I stopped offering him that altogether we'd get even less down him.)
Anybody else's little ones gone funny with food? Any suggestions about what to do next? He usually takes his milk by the way - so at least he's getting those calories.

Thanks,

Paulax

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carocaro · 27/11/2010 22:06

Has he gone off milk too? Is he pooing and weeing ok? If his weight is good I would not worry at all. If you find savoury he loves, keep at it, they try and introduce new stuff slowly.

I have a Tom too and he is nearly four and went through a very similar phase.

MoonFaceMamaaaaargh · 28/11/2010 19:56

Is he crawling or walking? When ds was "cracking" crawling at 8m he went off solids for a week or so until he had mastered it.

I just gave him as much milk as he wanted and he was fine.

Milk's supposed to be their main nutrition till one apparently so I would not cave on the sweet stuff...they love it cause they are programmed to seek out calories.

Offer him healthy things and if he isn't interested don't push it, just let him have as much milk as he needs. I don't trust my judgement on what portions ds needs (he's now 9m) as I can't judge this very well for myself even Blush so I just (try to) trust him to eat what he needs.

Milk is getting stuff down him imo.

Hth

spidookly · 28/11/2010 20:02

DD1 went off food like this at his age. She effectively went back to bfing like a newborn. It was exhausting because she needed very frequent feeds for it to be enough when she was having so little solid food.

I think it was a combination of teething, being unwell, and sleep regression.

Either way it got a bit better once winter was over, but TBH she's still a fussy little mare now (2.8).

Sorry! I hope things go back to normal for you. If they don't just try to stay calm and patient.

ItalianLady · 28/11/2010 20:04

Giving him sweet stuff to get him to eat isn't the way to go as he will soon get wise and prefer those. Crafty monkey Grin.

My dd was about 9 months and I had to buy a blender and go right back to pureeing her food and start again as she just didn't get it. She did progress after that and while not as good an eater as her brother she does fine.

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