So my little boy is 1 is two weeks and we still haven’t found consistency in eating solids yet.
We originally started with a mix between spoon feeding and baby led weaning (which he never really took too). We’ve probably had 3-5 meals that have been solid and he has used his hands to feed himself. The rest of the time he mostly plays with the food for a few minutes then it gets left or ends up on the floor (which is relatively new and we’re most ignoring or reminding him that food stays on his table). I do then often blend and try again with me spoon feeding him which is 50:50 whether he will take it.
He’s had a tough time with teething and tonsillitis (we’re on 14 teeth!) and I think this had really hindered him too.
He will only accept yoghurt when he refuses anything else from a spoon.
I’ve just blended his dinner again tonight and he refused it after 3 spoonfuls. He started crying and getting quite stressed so I took him out of the kitchen for 5 mins until he calmed down. Tried again and he started crying again so I took him away. He came back though and I fed him some puréed fruit which he had fine. I tried him with one spoonful of mashed potato and he gagged again and brought up everything else with it… This has been a bit of a recurring pattern. He’ll eat fine for a day or two (from a spoon and fully puréed food) then he’ll have a few days of refusing anything except rice cakes and yoghurt or he’ll gag and end up making himself sick.
I’m not really sure what to do at this point but obviously it’s my responsibility to help him through this and improve his journey with food. I’m just struggling on places I might have gone wrong or things I can improve on or ask for help. Any advice would be soooooo welcomed.