10 month old won't eat!

[Pippin1981]

My 10 month old baby boy used to be great at eating but has recently become a nightmare at meal times.
He won't open his mouth when I try to feed him
And he often cries, it really stresses me out that he's not eating much every day .
I've tried different finger foods, spoon feeding, everything and he's just not that interested.

I'm not worried about his weight as he is big for his age and a very healthy weight but I'm just worried about him getting enough nutrition etc. Had anyone else had a similar problem?

Op, my almost 10 month old had similar spells that lasted about a week. It usually happened when he was about to cut teeth. He wouldn't eat solids, one or two spoonful at the most.

With finger foods he would just babble/shout with his mouth full (he still does that) which gives me a heart attack every time as I am worried he will choke!

Not eating phase usually resolved itself after a week each time and he went back to eating reasonable amounts.

How long has your little one been on solids strike for?

Yep my LO when he was cutting teeth didn't want much.
I just kept offering and leaving him to it with his fingers foods until he felt better.
He'll be getting everything he needs from his milk so don't worry.

I've got a 11 month old and it seemed to be when teething. I just topped up with extra milk when he didn't eat then it balanced itself out.

I just thought as adults were not always hungry and babies/children don't really need that much food as there still small.

I know it's stressful though especially when you hear they should be eating this that and the other and xyz meals a day!

I could have written this myself OP, my DD is 10 months old and we’re having the exact same problem just now. Except we’re coming into the third week of it. No one seems to be taking it seriously because she’s quite a big baby but I’m worried too about how little she’s eating. What I’ve found helps is having all her food fridge cold (like, even dinners that would usually be hot, she’s only eating cold)
She’s pretty happy apart from this and people have suggested to me that she’s teething too but in the past 3 weeks we’ve not had any new teeth through

Hey thanks for your replies. He’s Beeb funny with his eating for the last couple of weeks. He has got a couple of teeth starting to cut through at the top so maybe it’s that?

He will have the odd spoon full but he only opens his mouth a tiny bit if at all, so it’s hard to get any food in.
I’m putting it down to his teeth at the moment, guess I’ll just have to see how it goes

It's very difficult and stressful when your baby won't eat. Perhaps try him on more finger foods and just leave him to it, no pressure whatsoever. Apparently the more we try the less likely they are to cooperate.

We saw a paediatric dietitian for my little girl when she went through food refusal (largely caused by the Hv awful advice on introducing solids) ill list some tips below.

But to reassure you most of nutritional needs before 1 are met with milk, they do need iron at this stage but you can get multi vitamins with iron to ensure they get enough or if FF follow on milk has iron.
It’s a journey though, sometimes two steps forward and one back, but you’re playing the long game here lol
Serve baby what you have (suitably prepared and no salt)
Have meals as a family
Set up a pre meal time routine like ‘let’s wash our hands it’s dinner time’
Allow baby to explore food and try bits here and there, don’t get focused on the volume. Finger foods and self feeding is best at this age.
As soon as baby refuses, don’t try and coax more in. They most often dig their heels in and that leads to flat out refusal
Don’t try and overly encourage or praise to eat this can be pressure on them which again can lead to refusal
Take any and all pressure off meal times and keep calm
Limit meal time to 15/20 mins max, they’ve got very short attention spans and get bored
Don’t worry if they don’t eat anything at one meal, they’ll have another opportunity to eat soon.
Don’t worry about mess, it’s just gonna happen
Don’t get into the habit of ‘you must finish’ or you can have so and so as a reward for finishing your meal- it makes ‘good’ and ‘bad’ foods
If there are foods your child definitely eats let’s say toast for instance, try and incorporate it into your meal, even if it doesn’t ‘go’ for instance everyone has shepherds pie with some toast fingers on the side . So in time baby/ toddler will try more foods.

I hope some of these tips help!