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terrible appetite, any advice or similar experience?

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LittleMonkeysMum · 04/09/2006 14:46

DD is 10 months old, and doesnb't seem to like food. She is 75th centile, so I'm not worried about her putting on weight, but I regularly end up giving her milk after another failed meal time. I don't want to turn meal times in to a battleground at this early stage, but don't know what to do. She hates (body shudders, eyes and face scrunch up and spits out, very entertaining!!) the following: yoghurt, bananas and most fruit, potatoes, anything tomato, any puree except carrot, sweet potato or squash, cheese with any flavour, and most other things!
She seems to like toast with cream cheese, toast with butter, cheese on toast, weetabix, watermelon and royal gala apples and will sometimes eat not very much of the following: par cooked carrot sticks, courgette, cucumber, french beans, tuna sandwich, cream cheese sandwich, egg sandwich (!), once only ate a pilchard sandwich, occasionally eats a couple of spoonfuls of cod mornay.
Apart from this she's fine and happy, just be really nice if she'd eat something!

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LittleMonkeysMum · 04/09/2006 14:46

oh yes and she likes bread sticks and rice cakes!

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ilovecaboose · 04/09/2006 14:52

Just keep chilled over eating and just keep trying new stuff. Her diet seems reasonably balanced.

The worse thing you can do is make it an issue. That makes long term problems. Just smile and take it away and don't give her anything till next meal/snack time. If she's not losing wieght and seems healthy you really shouldn't worry (I know its hard).

I made a fuss and got stressed - mealtimes turned into a battle and now I have a ds (who will be 2 soon) who is a complete nightmare about food. The best advice I ever got was 'relax' and I can't overstate it enough.

HTH

phatcat · 04/09/2006 15:07

she's doing fine, really. It's very early days just yet. Keep on offering the variety you are doing - it can take many many attempts for a food to be accepted. Agree with ilovecaboose about what to do. Some babys don't really go for purees - maybe your DD is one. Check out Baby Led Weaning - loads of threads in the archive on here for an alternative to puree led weaning. Wish I'd known about this for DS1 - he was a very poor eater and I really used to stress out. He's still not great at 3 and a half but I try and chill out and let him trust his own appetite and still keep on offering everything. His little brother on the other hand is a joy to feed - hoovers anything and everything. Develop some easy standby recipes that you can use when she's particularly fussy or you're partic fed up and can't face chucking another lovingly prepared meal in the bin - pasta and pesto and beans on toast are mine. HTH.

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mummy2ashton · 04/09/2006 15:31

just keep offering the food! i know its awful when you spend ages making nutritious lovely food for them to spit it out but keep trying,. my ds didnt eat solids regularly or properly till he was 13 months old.

some professionals think some kids refuse food when they are babies cos they have allergies to the foods, then when their allergies fade away they can begin to eat the foods again. don't force her but dont make a big deal if she doesnt eat anything. she won't starve herself. she'll eat when she has to.
xxx

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