seven month old regressing...what is going on?

[Heathcliffscathy]

don't know how to explain this: we've gone from 3 meals a day and four milk feeds, all very happy and successful, to seven month old ds starting to refuse anything that isn't sweet (he only has fruit, has never had added sugar) or avocado. yesterday and today he got himself into such a state so quickly that he wouldn't take anything at all (i never try to force things, but have found in the past that if i leave it for a bit and try again, he will take something that he has refused). only breastfeeding would pacify him. and just now he breastfed in a comfort sucking way for ages, and nearly fell asleep like that. he always falls asleep in his cot from awake, the last thing in the world i want is for him to start needing feeding to go to sleep...what the hell is going on? i feel so depressed about this, i don't know how to make it ok again or what has made it go like this. his behaviour is so weird. or maybe it's me and i'm missing something here. we've both had a cold (but getting better now) and he is teething, but he has two teeth through already and has never done this before...help someone...

sunlounger you genius

CD, I have quite elaborate fantasies about staying in a Convalescent Home - you know, like in an Agatha Christie novel, where you sit in a recliner chair at the seafront in Torquay with a rug over your knees and take tea, and then have a lovely nap before an early night with a light novel and a small sherry...

sophable

LOL

I am so pleased!! I just thought - huh! that's what I am like once a month and always forget and feel like going to see HV to get anti-depressants, shout at DD, shout at DH, cry, throw a fit, cry more, WOW, I thought you might think I was being a stupid cow for saying that.

now go and get a massive bar of chocolate and weep all you want!

try not to worry about your ds, as long as he is getting milk he'll be fine.

and for you, i recommend choccie, ice cream, weepy film/good book and to lounge about for the rest of the evening. get a takeaway in, and tell your dh he has to make the teas tonight.

Love your idea Aloha. I will tryit when DS get to college, or maybe earlier if things keep getting on my nerves There was a time when i was working long hours at a newspaper, I remember my ideal day off was staying on pijamas all day in front of the TV with the remote in my hand...

My dd did this the very day she turned 7 months.Wouldn't eat anything savoury she had previously enjoyed,unless it was tomatoey.She would happily eat sweet stuff,despite the fact that she has only ever had fruit or natural yogurt.

We got over this by cooking chicken with apricot/chicken & pineapple ect & gardually got her back onto savoury things.She still won't eat scrambled egg,banana ect though.

Try not to worry-as I was told on here-they don't starve themselves.

thanks all of you. we had a lovely bath together and he went to bed like a dream having eaten all of his dinner (which was....apple and kiwi and baby rice: nice and savoury then!). i'm just going to stop trying to give him anything without something sweet in it for now...the trauma of this afternoon was just too much...and it didn't do any good anyway...chicken and pineapple it is then . and bloody hope my period arrives pronto. am alone with pasta and hell's kitchen tonight (i'd do choccie, but am on ww ) thank you all so much for the support...you are all lovely

Hi soph, my Ds1 was exactly like this with sweet stuff so I used to have two meals going at once.....put the savory on the spoon and then dip it in or add the sweet stuff on the spoon aswell.

It all gets mixed up inside anyway and it worked a treat here.

HTH.

Oh yes, I do that too sometimes.

And I've been known to fantasise about throwing myself under a train just to get away from the wailing.

Sorry you had such a lousy day, sophable, but glad it turned out a bit bitter by the end.

Well, I don't want to depress you by saying this, but that feeling of not knowing what you're doing / frustrations etc. just doesn't stop. Or at least it didn't for me and dd's now almost 20 months old. BUT somewhere along the line I stopped letting it get to me in quite such an intense way, I stopped trying to reason / rationalise everything that dd was getting up to and just started adjusting with it. She did exactly what your ds is doing with food for example and I talked about it ALL the time (drove dp crazy), spoke to eating councillors, read every book under the sun but it all did no good and just made me unhappy and her reluctant to get into her high chair. Finally I just gave in and gave her what she would eat with a few things I really wanted her to eat sort of mingled in with them. She's still a feeble eater, no breakfast, tiny lunch and whopping pasta tea. But I just got fed up of being fed up.

If you can reach that conclusion quicker than I did you will save yourself months of unnecessary unhappiness!!!

now that i'm calmer, i can divulge in the same vein that one night bfding ds in the early hours and sufferring severe sleep deprivation, I caught myself banging my head against the back of the chair!!! call and ambulance someone! it's amazing how bad it can get...but also amazing how good it is too

thanks stf: i'm fast beginning to know that you're right and hope i can get there speedily!

well whatdoyouknow: probably too much info for everyone, but period just arrived ...i'm such an arse!