Please give me advice on REALLY fussy eater 8 month old

[springishere]

My dd is 8 months and is driving me round the bend with her feeding, I started to wean her at 6 months and she totally refused any foods, so I left it for a while and tried again and still nothing, eventually she started to eat and very very slowly she got onto three meals a day, then it all started to go wrong again and she is now nearly 9 months and it has got to the point where she isn't eating anything, the only thing that she will eat is this one flavour of Ella's kitchen ready to go food, anything of mine she totally refuses, any other flavour of food she refuses. The only one that she will eat, also has to be warm otherwise not interested again. It is sooooooo frustrating to be greeted by this clamped together little mouth at EVERY meal - what can I do to make her better at eating, really need some advice please

you are not alone many parents have gone through this. pead told me to just add one spoonful into the food they do eat of say carrot and gradually increase it over a coulpe of weeks. this really helped with my child gradually got there but it was really slow progress.child still fussy now but some kids are just like that not all kids eat every thing anyway. also make sure you stick to regular meal times each day with no snacks

For the first year of life milk is their main source of nutrition so make sure she is still having plenty of it. At nearly 9 months I would ditch the purees/baby food completely and give her finger food that she can feed herself. Try fingers of toast with butter or jam or cheese spread, pieces of fruit, fingers of veg such as sweet potato, carrot, parsnip etc, cubes of cheese, pasta, anything really. Give her bits to try from your plate. At first she will probably just play with it, throw it on the floor etc but after a while she may start trying to eat some.

Don't worry, some babies are just not ready for solid food, even at 7 or 8 months (years ago we used to wean babies at around 10 months).

i'm sure you have, but have you tried petit filou? DS is pretty good and eats most thigs but if he is having an off day and doesn't want anything, he will always eat those - good for milk intake too. Also he doesn't seem to care about weird combinations so agree with the mixing a little of something else in with the thing she does like. good luck

I'd forget trying to feed her anything and just put finger foods on the high chair tray and let her get on with it. Don't pick it up and try to offer it to her or do anything which puts pressure on. Keep doing it even if she doesn't eat it them at first. It won't do her any harm not to be getting much in the way of solids for quite a while.

Also put things like a squirt of ketchup or golden syrup, a blob of yoghurt, some rice pudding, etc on the high chair try for her to explore with her fingers. This will help her to get used to the textures and she may start to put her fingers in her mouth herself. If she does you can build on it and she might feed eventually start feeding herself the sloppier foods.

Most important of all don't get stressed about it. If you do she'll end up having you running round in circles to find ways to persuade her to eat.

My son (8 and 1/2 months) has been quite fussy with me spoon feeding him (after a good start to weaning at 5 months when he would eat most pureed fruit & veg I offered him for a month or so). So I tried a kind of baby led weaning, I give him some food to play with - which obviously goes straight into his mouth, he will have rice cakes plain or with cheese or fruit or veg purree on, sausages, strips of chicken breast, pieces of ham, pieces of fruit (pear, banana, pineapple, strawberries), cucumber, chunks of cheese (you get the picture - lots of things).
Anyway he will munch on this for 15 - 30 mins or so and then accept spoon fed food (but only a very few different things). It's as if he prefers feeding himself finger foods but realises after half an hour or so that he is still hungry as not getting much actually inside him.
There aren't many savoury things he will eat from a spoon anyway but I am trying new things all the time & unless he totally refuses & cries about it then I keep giving it to him for a few days (even if its only a few spoonfuls) to try to get him used to the flavour of it.
Its a long shot & I might be completely wrong about why this works but it's worth a try I hope you find a solution anyway, its not nice when they won't eat & you are really worried about them.

Springishere, I have been having the exact same battle as you, with my 8 month old over the last few weeks. She also will only eat one flavour of te Ella's kitchen pouches!! It is driving me insane. I also have a 22 month old and she ate everything insight at her sisters age, I never imagined things would be different with number 2!! It really does make you feel indaequate. Think I will try with the fingerfoods and adding other foods into the pouch. Here's hoping it works! Have you had any success?