My son is nearly 14 months old. He was 4 weeks premature, he was on the 2nd percentile corrected when he was born and last I checked during is 10 to 12 month check up, he was nearly on the 50th percentile. My DS is tall and petite bless him.
He had his MMR vaccine on the 30th last month and since then, he hasn't been eating properly. He's been up and down really with food. He was drinking milk fine during the first week but recently it takes encouragement for him to drink. He's back on purrees too! I did baby led weaning but spoon feeding here and there and at the moment he won't touch his food. I'm so tired I've had a breakdown. He was already petite and now he looks so skinny. There's even been a rumour in my extended family that the reason my DS is "weak" is because all I feed him is fruits. Obviously, this is BS, I give him a balanced diet. Recently, ive been making his meals separate but still offering finger foods and our family meals to see if he would eat. 2 days ago he was finally asking for more rice when I fed him, and he enjoyed it. I thought he was back on track but the same rice he refused the next day. I'm currently making every puree food balanced and adding either nut butters, double cream, milk, bananas and other high calorie foods into them to make sure he gains weight. I grinded lentils and used rice flour to make him a purree today too and that's what he ate at lunch and dinner.
The entire day I'm just there encouraging him to take the first spoon of whatever I've made and sometimes he will open his mouth and finish it all and other times it's a struggle. I'm so exhausted.
Oh and as well as the MMR vaccine, he caught a cough and cold straight after and is also teething.
My question is, has anyone else had similar experiences? It's been over 2 weeks and normally when he's ill he takes a week to get back to normal. I also feel like forcing him or encouraging him to take bites makes him fearful of the high chair, his spoon or his bottle.