Ten month old suddenly refusing food and wanting bottles again

[MagicOrange1]

I have a 10 month old who suddenly had started to refuse his food. He loves his breakfast which has been a variety of things but suddenly the last 2 weeks he is having 1 or 2 spoonfuls and refusing anymore. Today he has completely refused any of it and we have had to go back to giving him his morning bottle which he will have the full 8oz's. He is doing the same with his dinner which again he loved but now is refusing. I feel we are going backwards and where we have been dropping bottles they are slowly coming back because I can't leave my baby going hungry.

The last 2 weeks I have noticed his sleeping has not been great lots of wake ups and he has been very clingy and is teething. I don't know if this is related at all but I'm started to become concerned.

We have the heath visitor Monday so I can speak to her but I just wanted to see if this has happened to anyone else?

DS always goes off his food when he is getting a tooth. Once the tooth cuts through he is back on the food and he eats extra to make up for the lost days. When he’s teething he will have milk, soup and mash and that is it. Even other foods like porridge which is soft he goes off for some reason. Once teething is over he will eat whatever we are having as he is not a fussy eater at all. Just FYI their gums can be sore for up to 2 weeks before the tooth cuts through so it can last a while.

Totally normal, probably teething, under the weather, developing. Like adults, their appetite varies - they don't eating more in a linear way. I would be trying to get off bottles from now on if not already doing so - put formula in whatever cup they have water from. My daughter is 19 months and she often skips a meal - it's normal, they don't have consistent appetites like older children do. Don't force or pressure it, offer, give a chance to feed themselves, then if not interested, take it away and do something else. Putting pressure on them is the worst thing.