10 month that won't eat solids

[Lozzer79]

Hi

I would be most grateful for any tips or advice. I have a 10 month old dd that refuses to eat most solids. She has 3 x 6oz bottles of milk per day at 6.30am, 2pm and 6.30pm. I try to give her solids at 7.30am, 12.30pm and 5.00pm. I have tried baby led weaning but nothing was going in so I am now trying to combine baby led with puréed food.

Everyday for breakfast i make her fruit porridge which she doesnt eat and toast which she eats a little of. Foods I have tried for breakfast are; eggy bred (won't eat), weetabix (won't eat) scrambled egg (won't eat) sometimes she will eat yoghurt and a fruit purée in a pouch.

Lunch - I am sorry to say but I have given up making Annabel Karmel meals as I was spending hours making all this food that's he just wouldn't eat, I also tried the traditional baby led to no avail. Lunch now will consist of a jar or Hipp Organic of some sort, she may have a couple mouthfuls sometimes not.i will give her some finger food of maybe a quiche or a fish cake do she has the option of feeding herself. Little or none goes in. Dessert is a yoghurt or a puréed fruit pouch which she will eat.

Dinner is along the same lines as lunch.

She is a petit baby but I am at at a total loss of what to try? If anyone could give me any advice I would be most grateful! It may be worth noting that she isn't really into snacks so I don't fill her up in between meals.

Thank you x

I mix fruit with the fruity porridge because I still think it tastes rubbish!

Jam sandwiches are his favourite lunch I use the sugar free jam though! If we're out and about (or I'm feeling extra lazy) he'll have a pouch of food which he sucks out himself, I just need to push it up when he's eaten it from the top and can't suck it out! For snacks we have corn snacks, rice cakes (jam or humous), fruit (strawberries cut into his mouth size pieces or any berry are his favourites), breadsticks etc.

To be honest u think my boy wouldn't stop eating if I let him

He was difficult for the first 6 weeks of weaning, he wouldn't eat anything I made or out of a jar!

DS1 was like this. He absolutely refused to eat off a spoon and was not particularly able to feed himself with BLW. He was very very fussy and just cried even in the high chair and refused anything. He seemed to hate meal times. I ended up just letting him take it slowly with BLW, didn't insist on him sitting in a high chair, let him really mush up and 'play' with his food which is probably not the best advice but when DS1 was around his 1st birthday he suddenly got the hang of feeding and was eating more or less a balanced diet including apples, rasins, sausages, crackers, cheese, yogurts, toast, jacket potatoes etc. He still hated sitting in the high chair though which was a bit of a pain but he was eating and that's all I cared about He's now 5 yrs old though he has a small appitite he eats a huge variety of foods that most kids wouldn't even touch! He'll try anything and is a pretty reasonable eater who sits nicely at the table so try not to panic. If you can try to make meal times as stress free as possible.... easier said than done!

Little our nothing goes inn to start with a lot of babies this age. I did baby led weaning with both mine DD seem to pick out up quit well, although at the time I though she was a bit slow. But DS just picked at food most of the time, until about 16 months when he started eating a lot more.

Your job is to offer healthy food, they will eat it when they are good and ready. Don't force it as the last thing you want is to turn meal times into a battle.

How's her weight? I would agree with the not pushing it approach and perhaps shes just not ready yet. If her weights dropping or stagnant I might take her to HV or GP as well as try to see if there is anything the matter with her swallow or any other issue that would be of more concern and therefore justify anything other and easy does it.

if she's still thriving, then it's okay.

when you say you've tried BLW what do you mean?
in the book it says it doesn't matter how long it takes.

DD refuses to sit in a highchair or at the table, but if she sits on my lap, she'll grab hold of my food and start to eat it.
not much, and to start with, she wasn't taking anything in.

the point is that you're not supposed to worry. keep offering her food and she'll eat when she wants to. don't make a fuss.

like Rowan says, don't worry about the high chair either.

we plonk DD on the floor on a big towel and give her a couple of things. she picks them up and plays with them, and sometimes she'll shove them in her mouth and eat them.

we tried toast with dd for breakfast. she doesn't eat it. ladies at church give her biscuits , so i gave her a cream cracker yesterday and she loved it.
so last night, i rolled some dried fruit into shortcrust pastry and cooked it.
i gave her one piece this morning and she ate it.

DD did this for about 3 months, from 7 months to 10 months. Every day I would put food down in front of her just to have it ignored or thrown on the floor. Eventually she started to eat bits and now can eat a whole portion of finger food when she wants to (which is not every day by any means). Good luck!