Nearly 12 month old refusing solids

[Daisysimply]

Hi I put a post on here a few months ago regarding my 8 month old refusing to eat any solids. We’re nearly 4 months later and still this girl will not eat any food! I’ve tried finger foods, purée pouches, homemade purées, purées of all different consistencies and textures. She will not eat anything. The only food she seems to like is baked beans (low sugar and salt) and pasta. Everything else gets chucked on the floor which is such a waste. She shakes her head whenever I try to feed her from a spoon and is the same with whoever tries to feed her. Suppose I’m just looking to see if anyone has had a similar experience and at what age do they grow out of it? Also worried she will end up with deficiencies if this carries on - she is still breastfed and takes liquid vitamins twice a day but over the age of 1 I don’t know if this is enough but not sure what else I can do🤷‍♀️

My 13mo bf baby is very similar. I read this and feel much more relaxed about it now:

kellymom.com/nutrition/starting-solids/toddler-foods/#:~:text=Don't%20worry%20if%20he's,into%20eating%20is%20never%20recommended.

Thank you, that’s reassuring to read! Always see posts online of babies eating 3 meals and snacks a day and panic as my little one eats no where near that amount!

My 9mo is also hesitant to eat from a spoon and prefers to feed himself with his fingers. Charlotte Stirling Reed (SR Nutrition) has a great blog and Instagram account.

At that age my daughter daily food diet was 1 or 2 spoons of Weetabix and oat milk. Maybe 6 peas for lunch. 3 pieces of sweetcorn for dinner and that was and average to good day. We had days where it was absolutely nothing.
At 13 months she ate her first ever meal between then and 15 months she moved up to 3 meals a day but didn't eat all of them.

She is 3 now and on a good nursery day she has toast and cereal for breakfast, lunch which is a hot meal followed by fruit and veg puree with crackers and cucumber and carrot sticks. At home she might have a handful of plain pasta. On a bad day it would be just toast or cereal, half her lunch and most of her tea nothing at home.

A bad weekend is half her breakfast (often the 3rd offered breakfast the first 2 being rejected) for both days. 3 of the 4 meals will be just a few spoonfuls one meal she eat 1/2-3/4 of it.

The most stressful time I had as a parent was the period from 7-13months she refused to eat but wasn't feeding enough to gain weight. We moved to formula at 10 months and that made no difference in that 6 month period she only put on 200g and dropped a percentile. I have learnt to be more relaxed about her lack of eating. We are under paediatric and dietician care for reflux and food allergies so it is reassuring to have professional eyes on it not that they say much other than don't worry

My second didn't get going with solids till around 14 months. The first had started at 5 months so we did worry. She was fussier but never a problem nutritionally and all fine after a few years.

She will get there I'm sure. 🙂

I had one of those, and to be honest, she still eats a very restricted diet. But it's no longer just milk.

On the nutrition side, we gave DD toddler formula, which is complete. Breast milk is pretty good, but your DD will need iron; you've mentioned a multivitamin, so you should have that covered. So you don't need to worry on that score.

You've probably read that toddlers need to chew to develop the right muscles for speech. All I can say is that isn't the case for all of them - DD started speaking within a normal time frame, and her pronunciation has always been excellent. So don't worry too much on that one either!

@Daisysimply how are you getting on?

has there been any improvement ? We are in a similar boat at 8 months feeling stupidly stressed out x

She’s now 13 months and is still not great at eating but has improved slightly. She now likes yoghurts, rusks mixed with a bit of oat milk, bananas and will occasionally have a few mouthfuls of some kind of purée. She’s still very fussy and will pretty much only eat the things I’ve listed, everything else still ends up on the floor! I’m just trying to stress less about it and not compare her to other babies. I can see she is happy and healthy so I must be doing something right. I just keep offering her food throughout the day and it’s up to her whether she eats it or not

@Daisysimply

thats more reassuring to hear, do you still
give her as much milk as she wants? …

we’ve had a zero solids day didn’t want anything I offered x

We’ve had many a day like that, especially when teething!

I’ve tried to limit her milk a little bit during the day and only breastfeed her when it’s clear that’s what she wants. I try offering snacks in place of when I would have breastfed her if she starts getting grumpy. She’s taken to that quite well, better than I thought, and I would say it has helped her to eat more solids. She still feeds throughout the night tho x