Baby gone off proper food

[Igloolou]

10 month old who usually eats almost everything under the sun happily has gone off pretty much everything. He will now only eat wheetabix, scrambled egg, fruit purées, yogurts and snacks food like baby biscuits. He used to be absolutely obsessed with bananas and would have eaten 3 in a sitting if I’d have let him, now he might have a couple of bits before refusing it.
about 2 weeks ago he was really really sick one night and brought up undigested pear and spaghetti that he’d had earlier that day. I do feel that he’s gone off food since that event and wonder if he made the connection between fruit and other food and is now scared to eat it - is that something that happens with children so young?
I’m just not sure if this is normal for a baby but I’m getting worried about how much he’s consuming and not getting enough of the right things, I can’t just let him live off biscotti and yoghurt.

Is he teething ? I would try giving nurofen 30 mins before food to see if he will eat more because he isn’t in pain.

Like only, I'd try him with some pain relief half an hour before his meal.

How much milk is he getting too? If he's FF he only needs 400 ml a day between 10 and 12 months so if he's getting much more than that, you might want to cut down a bit to see if that encourages his appetite.

@Igloolou my baby went through the exact same thing around 9-10months! Now 6weeks later he’s eating again. Although we even struggled with purées! He was a great eater. One evening was so sick we took him to the emergency room. wouldn’t eat well since.

now I’m feeding him half finger foods and half purées
6 horrible weeks thinking something was wrong.. he’s just cut his tooth!
so a mixture of sickness and teething.

just feed baby whatever he will have, luckily mine would continue with breastfeeding (main source of nutrition!) and a bit of fruit and the odd purée here and there.

we were doing BLW but now have had to flex because of this episode. Now doing a combination so we can ease back into it.

keep offering, but give what he will eat. It will get better but I totally understand how upsetting and stressful it is because we have been through the same horrible thing.

Thank you for each of your answers, he's definitely got a couple of big teeth at the top coming through so maybe that's the cause. I'll try him on some ibuprofen next meal and see how he goes. I did manage to get him to eat a decent amount of sweet potato earlier so I at least know his tummy was full at lunch time.

@SiouxsieSiouxStiletto He's starting to go off his milk, will have about 6oz when he wakes around 6am, maybe a couple oz around 10am, 3/4oz 3pm and a anywhere between 3-7oz at bedtime so generally within the 400ml you mention or thereabouts.

@bungletru how interesting that your child was the same after a severe bout of vomiting. We were almost at the point that night of calling 111 but his stomach settled. I've never seen anything like it, poor little guy was just bringing up so much over and over.
Pleased things started to take an up turn for you again, I'll keep offering and trying and hope for the same.

It’s very normal. I think it’s something to do with realising they have a choice to refuse food they don’t fancy. And also the novelty of eating has worn off.

Just keep offering lots of different things. If my DS refused everything I used to have a bit of a pause before giving him something I knew he’d like a bit later on. I didn’t want him to learn “if I refuse my toast, I’ll get a yoghurt instead”. So he would still get the yoghurt, but not immediately after refusing something else.

This is something my ds (24mo) has done from 12mo. He got a fright with the pain one day while teething and went off spoon feeding entirely.

I would try giving some calpol or nurofen 30 mins before meal time then give some finger food instead. It may be that he doesn't want the spoon due to pain and is now scared