Need help.

[sazno1]

My 1 year old refused to move on to solid food and will spit anything back out if its not puree. This is really frustrating as he will only eat 1 flavour jar of food. Ive tried him on everything, he sucks them and spits them out. His only having the equivalent of one jar a day, when he should be on about three. This means that he is up twice a night wanted a bottle. Its do frustrating what can I do?

How about putting the same food as you're having in front of him and eat at the same time, if he picks it up and starts to eat, great, if not, no biggie and keep doing it. No offering of puree. Not making any comments if he doesn't eat and carrying on with normal family chat if he does and perhaps ask him if he likes it etc. Hopefully he'll eventually start to eat the same as you and will crack on. In the short term it'll possibly mean more night wakenings, but will get better in the longer term.

Good initial starters could be simple like pasta ( I recommend Tesco's fresh cavapatti) in tomato sauce, grilled mackerel fillets with veg, homemade fish fingers (dead easy), that kind of thing. See how you go. Good luck!

Ah thank you for your help. Im so frustrated with this. He wont even take down a chip! Everything is tasted and spat out and I dont think its because he dislikes it, I think he just wont swallow. He is loosing weight too, so I want to find a fast solution, even though, I know there isnt one. He has only just turned one, is this normal?

It's not normal. Have you asked your GP to take a look? A neighbour's child refused to eat anything except purees and drinks for years and it turned out that he had a medical problem with his nasal passages that made chewing & swallowing solid food very painful. When the medical problem was fixed, so were his eating habits.

It's a good sign that he tastes it but what age did you introduce solids just out of interest?

What about gradually making the puree lumpier and see if he'll take that, it could just be that he has to get used to it, but if it carrys on do what Cogito says and go to the doctor especially if he's losing weight.

I took him to the doctors last week and he had the all clear. He's always been in the 95th percentile of babies and a very healthy weight. I introduced solids gradually from about 9 months. He's very enthusiastic about all finger foods, but its always sucked and then spat out. The only thing that does get swallowed is skips and puree food.

Sorry could be 10 months, i cant really remember.

One of my kids was about 2yrs old when he stopped gagging and spitting out solid foods. He was just really behind on the weaning stage. He is now 3 and eats fine.

I would go for the gradual lumps and build up.

Thank you very much pancakeflipper. You've put my mind at ease. x

tasting and spit out is normal learning behaviour with food even thow is bloody frustrating.have you try put cooked baby pasta into the favoured food to add bit texture but with same flavour knows and trusts?it can take 11 atempts with any new flavour to accept it,so maybe keep offering new things alongside what likes.one mine drove me to distraction only eat banan porridge out of a packet.unlike yours he fel off botom centile chart so i let him have it 3x a day and kept offering other things...he 6 now and whilst he still has issues with very chewy textures(dry fruit,sum meats etc) he eats like a horse and is fine.another thing that can make dif someone else offers food.i didnt no whether to laugh or cry my son ate pork for grandma(i had try loads times n out it came).they can sense your anticipation/anxiety and react to that

Ohh baby pasta, great idea!! That might work, Im sure i'll be able to sneak some pasta bits in, even if i have to put it in his petite falloo, haha!
Another thing im experiencing is that my son has gone back to being like a small baby, he wants a bottle of milk up to 3 times a night? Ive heard your not suppose to give them a bottle in the night?? Know anything about this?