10 month old refusing to eat

[neeps]

Hi,
Need some advice, i recently moved my 10 month old to the 8 month jar, she unfortunately has retaliated by not eating anything. She has been on this hunger strike for two weeks. I am very worried, both the doctor and Health visitor say she is just reacting to this new texture and bear with it. I put her back on the pureered food, but she is not having that either.
Any advice.

Sorry neeps, I was lucky to have two very good eaters so am stumped for advice.

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oh neeps, this must be a big hassle for you. Is she literally refusing all solid food now, or is it the quantity you are managing to get down her that is worrying you?
Maybe you could speak to the HV again, and if you get the impression they are not taking your worries seriously enough, can you get to clinic regularly for the next few weeks and ask to have her weighed?
How much milk is she drinking? Is she well in herself? Could the refusal to eat coarser textured food be coinciding with her teething? I just wondered because it is very common for even good eaters to go off their grub when they are cutting teeth.
Sorry, lots of questions. I hope we can help you find something to try to get her through this phase.
Welcome to mumsnet anyway

neeps my children are also very good eaters, so I have no experience, but I did find that from this sort of age my ds2 in partic was very keen to feed himself.
Have you tried to offer yr dd a range of things she can pick up and eat (sliced soft fruit, well-cooked carrot sticks, bits of toast/pitta bread, pasta shapes are all good)?
By 10 mo she can eat whatever you are eating tbh, why not try her with a bit of ?mummy?s dinner? as a special treat? Do you sit down and eat with her too? I find this is always a good idea.
Don?t worry, she won?t starve. I wouldn?t go back to purees as by 10 mo she needs to be eating food with a bit of texture or you may struggle later on.

My DD never liked purees or jars much, at 10mo she was eating all finger foods apart from yoghurt and rice pudding. I eat with her and she usually has a version of what I'm eating.

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Hi to all of you that replied.
She is refusing all food, and loves her milk at the moment. HV has told me to let her get hungry, by not offering any extra milk. She appears more tired than norm.Tks for the advice on the mashed food, but at the mo she is refusing to eat everything. Finger foods are not getting eaten, just been licked.
I am glad u all are on Mumsnet and i hope to make new friends.

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Hi Yorkiegirl,
I will give it a go, but its one thing for her to grab food of me, but another to eat it. She just plays with it.
I just want a baby that eats, my son who died last year in a road accident was a very fussy eater and really pushed me to the limit.

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My dd was exactly the same. I just let her lead me regarding food and milk. Are you breastfeeding? If so just let her have more milk. The more stressed you get the worse everything will seem. If the doctor isn't worried about weight gain then try not to worry. Easier said than done I know. Dd (20m) eats what she wants when she wants. She'll sometimes go for a day not eating but makes up for it the day after.

neeps I am so very sorry about your son.
Although it was in different circumstances I know all too well how parental bereavement can radically alter your worries about your living children, and make some issues of huge importance.
Are your GP and HV aware that your son died? I would hope they might be more supportive of your concerns for dd if they were.

Hi so sorry to hear about your son. Would just like to offer you support and let you know that i am going through exactly the same thing. My dd is 9 months and has gone a week now without eating much except milk which she loves the HV tells me she will eat too when she wants but its alful thinking i am starving her if you ever need a chat CAT me it can help to talk to someone who is going through the same thing

My ds went through spells of eating/not eating - all to do with developmental stages/teething. He wanted smooth/finger/spoon/no spoon/feed himself/fed by me etc. Just when I sussed out what he wanted - he changed to something else! tbh - up to 1yo milk should still be their main source of food. You are just trying to get them used to other bits and textures.
I wouldn't dream of advising anyone to cut down the milk to 'make them hungry'. If they don't want solids - leave them alone. Keep offering and sitting with them or with other children - they'll soon get nosey and copy.
ps if it IS teeth - my ds still goes back to milk only when he's got sore teeth and he's 18mo.

Hi there,
I've been trying not to stress too much, not always successfully mind you, with the same problem. My daughter is 10 1/2 months and hasn't eaten solids regularly since about 8 months. It coincided with a heat wave here (Winnipeg Canada), wanting more of a challenge in food texture that we didn't catch on to and teething.

My big worry is not weight gain - she's still BF-ing fine, but iron deficiency. After 6 months their stores of iron are gone and there's none to be had of a useful quantity in breast milk. I missed the boat a bit on this because I started her on fortified cereal, but started making my own, without supplementing with iron.

The nutritionist/dietician and the doctor both mentioned that iron deficiency can cause loss of appetite, so I'm giving her slightly more than the daily dose of iron starting today. We'll see how it goes here, but it's perhaps worth checking on with your doctor.