My 9 month old is refusing to eat savory food

[Mrsstam]

Hi
Am I hoping someone can give me some advice. I have 9 month old twins and one of them has started to refuse to eat any savory food in the last week or so. She will eat toast in the morning but when I try to feed her anything savory on a spoon she puts her hands in front of her mouth and crys if I try to move them, even foods she has previously loved. She will eat sweet things like fruit or yoghurt quite happily??
She is teething and constantly chews her fingers which I know has a bearing on her wanting to eat.
Can anyone advise on the best course of action, I dont want her to start losing weight due to this.Or to become a fussy eater that lives on sweet things!!

Any advice would be gratefully received.

Stop giving them sweet things altogether for a while. I'd also recommend providing lots of finger foods, they love being in control of their own feeding (while most do)

Thank you for this, I did speak to the health visitor and asked if I should stop giving them their desert and she told me not to. As they are only eating fruit or yoghurt and healthy things like that, its part of the meal and its good that they are eating it. I will try finger food for the next few days and see how we go.

Thank you. I am trying to remember this is just another phase, especially after trying to feed her yet another unsuccessful lunch which she batted out of my hand and wore most of!! She did however eat half banana so thats something I guess.

Great to hear I'm not the only one dealing with a selective eater...fine one day, not the next. As someone said to me the other day, they're allowed to change their mind!

My ds would only eat sweet things if I let him, he wouldnt take anything savoury off a spoon from about 6.5 months, so we went ahead with BLW which works for us but agree with others about not offering many/any sweet things.

Hello,

My nearly 8 month DD has a strong preference for sweet things. So recently I have been putting her savoury food in a bowl to my side but showing her the yoghurt pot as they are her favourite. Then i put half savoury and half yoghurt on the spoon and she eats it! As the meal progresses I reduce the ratio of yoghurt to savoury so she is on entire savoury spoons by the end. Then the next day i try to start with the savoury food, works for a bit, then I have to give a bit more yoghurt! but at least she is eating the savoury food and I figure we'll get there! Also have tried putting the savoury food in an empty yoghurt pot - also works to some extent!!

Zimm - great idea! DD is a good eater, but sometimes she gets bored halfway through her savoury course, so I swap to pudding because I know that she'll wolf it down (yoghurt or fruit). She always makes a grab for the pot :) Might try your wee trick to get her eating more savoury if she does this again...

My ten month old has started doing exactly this about a week ago. He will have finger foods for breakfast and will still eat sweet yoghurt and fruit but refuses anything savoury at all. He does go through little phases occasionally so I think this is just another. About a month ago he started having a screaming fit any time I tried to feed him anything even though I’ve been consistently feeding him solids since he started on them, but after about a week or so this passed so I’m hoping this new phase will too. It is very stress inducing though. I hope all is well for you now

I hope all is well for you now

I hope so too as he's now probably 14

😂😂 I’ve only just noticed the original posts date… whole different set of issues now then 😂

wow I posted on the 2011 thread, always weird to come across yourself after so long...still agree with the advice given though!