1 year old milk monster refusing food

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my son has just turned one, he was a great eater then he refused food for probably 6 weeks in total. now that the weather has cooled down and is raining he seems to all of a sudden want food again but its a struggle, he wants food but he wants milk more, hes a very srong big 1 year old hes walking and running wanting a chase all day and insisting on having boxing gloves on so he can punch the bag constantly so hes actually workig out a lot during the day so hes super hungry, like today after 30 minutes of trying to feed him he decided to eat the whole pouch in 2 minutes a jar of rce pudding and a banana but then tonight refused to eat and took 21 oz of milk before bed, i know nuts. but what else can i do? i cant let him go to bed hungry i tried from 5 to 7:15 with food giving him play breaks inbetween. its so frustrating he does this sometimes all day and will drink 4 pints in one day. should i just start to refuse milk all together in day time? he wakes up once at night for milk and i would like to keep the bedtime milk so should i just keep to feed before bed and the one feed at 4-5 am? any advice would be great because i feel very frustrated when he refuses to eat when i know hes hungry and that milk doesnt satisfy him.

Maybe start him on adult food, he eats what you eat but the mashed version, as obv pouches are doing nothing for him esp if he’s a big boy
No don’t refuse him milk he needs milk to have good bones as he’s still a baby yet..maybe cutting the milk down tho

21 floz before bed? I’d talk to your HV, that’s a lot in anybody’s book.

Agree with PP, if you want to fill him up, pouches are heavy in water and low in protein. He needs proper food.

What does he normally eat and drink in a day?

he wont eat any veg unless its in a pouch but hell eat meat no problem like when i make my own burger or get burger from butcher hell eat that and hell eat mash potato but as for carrots, seet potato ect wont touch it , but will if its in the pouches -.- but its like he gets bored of eating then chucks it on the floor even though hes still hungry he just wants to play. every day varies in the morning i mix fresh fruit with his oatmeal some morning hell eat all of it other mornings will refuse to eat it. then lunch hell have something like cottage pie in pouch then yoghurt ...sometimes again he will eat and other times refuse it .. same at night for supper, some days hell have what i have like last night after trying the pouch i tried sunday dinner but he just chucked it all on the floor. this morning i refused the bottle and when i was getting him to sleep he gave in and took the oatmeal with blueberries i put it in a wee sprout pouch because he wont take food from a spoon he wants to hold the pouch himself. its just exhausting. and i know that hes just refusing it because he knows ill just give him milk so hes not hungry, just not sure if its ok to just refuse milk at day time all together. and the main reason i dont give what i have is because it 95% of the time ends up on the floor. i did a month worth of mel prep for him spent o fortune on organic veg and meat and froze them and he literally chucked all of it on the floor. it wasnt so much about the money it was just all the effort i made just ended on the floor and i was breastfeeding at the time too so he was tgen stuck on me because he thought food was just a fun time to make a mess. ive finished breastfeeding now for a month now hes obsessed with bottle and straw cup. his grandma says his dad was exactly the same and disnt eat till he was 2 that all he wanted was milk, i really dont like the idea of that at all i just want to nip it in the bud and find some solution. he doesnt have a negtive assosiation with food like he doesnt cry or moan in the high chair or anything or when i offer the food.

One thing that might help is keeping a food diary. This lets you look at what he’s eating over a week rather than obecindicidual meal. It’s perfectly normal for a baby if one to refuse a meal. This is usually for one of two reason, he’s either not hungry or more likely, he knows something easier will come his way if he refuses the first option.

He only needs 10 floz a day. If you are using bottles to get him to sleep, I’d just give one before his afternoon nap and one before bed and not at any other time.

I’d also stop spoon feeding him and giving pouches, some babies can be incredibly lazy but he will feed himself once he figures out you’re not going to do it for him, he might shout a bit, but stay calm and eat your own meal or just benignly ignore him and do the washing up.

I give him breakfast first thing. If he’s dropping food, try putting him in a long sleeved bib and a cheap shower curtain (or a dog) beneath him.

Lots of things to try him with, a banana. They split naturally into segments if you peal them from the top to make them easier for little hands. All of us like blueberry pancakes at the weekend. Sausage and beans, just cut the sausage lengthways. Smooth nut butter on toast. Scrambled egg, eggy bread with honey cinnamon and berries, porridge fingers, weetabix with milk and banana or berries. Chopped fruit.

If you are worried about spending time cooking then it being wasted, try to make things you’ll both enjoy, like the blueberry pancakes. You don’t have to eat the same as the baby for all meals but if you cook for yourself and give the baby some of that, it doesn’t feel like such a waste if they refuse it IYGWIM.

What sorts of things does he have for snacks too OP? Try him with a cup of milk and cubes if cheese and halved grapes, hummus and beg sticks, cream cheese and baby bread sticks. Savoury muffins freeze well and mine loved Cheese straws with a bit of fruit. They will keep for a couple of weeks in an airtight container but mine always scoffed them pretty quickly. Have you tried him with a homemade lolly too?

Is he drinking much water? BM gives them a drink as well as food and I’m just wondering if he’s drinking so much milk because he’s thirsty?