Picky eaters support club - circa 12/13 months but all welcome especially those with survival stories!

[Zimm]

I need a support group. DD is 13 months and only eats:

wheatabix
Yoghurts
Bananas
Raisins
Broccoli
Oat cakes
All organix/plum snack foods
Pureed fruit
All Ella's kitchen
Very limited amount of homemade puree if alternated with yoghurt!
Bread and related products
All bran
She once ate a grape and an olive!

Lentils and rice when hidden in puree
Sometimes pasta.

She loathes lumpy foods. She will only self-feed from the above list - all other food has to be tricked into her. Which I hate. I wanted to BLW. I wanted her to enjoy food and eat family meals. It just has not happened and now i'm starting to worry.

She also BF 2-5 times a day. Officially it's 2.
I'm feeling something of a failure about this.

can'tmake I have read other threads where babies are reported to suddenly get the hang of weaning at about 10 months, or a year, so you could find you graduate from the support group before you get to our stage :)

I am sure it is nothing we have done as mothers, we just have cautious children who decide they like something, and stick with it (in my case, that thing is still my milk, but nevermind!)

Yesterday at the buffet DD ate part of a sausage roll, a cucumber stick, and had a rice cake when we got home - not bad for her, I consider that a good day. She fell asleep before dinner though, as it had been such an exciting day, so skipped that meal.

Jointhedots, I really hope so. Today, with the exception of a few Oatibix bites, she's refused all food. It's causing me crazy amounts of stress now, so I can only sympathise with you still going through it at a year. I hope they all 'get it' eventually.

can'tmakecarrotcake - 8 months is nothing in weaning terms, really don't worry. just keep offering a variety of foods - I am sure your DD will be fine!

So today DD ate:

1.5 wheatabixs for breakfast (result!)
3 oatcakes, oat snackbar, raisins, banana for lunch
Butternut squash and lentil risotto for dinner (mainly tasted of her beloved cream cheese so not really a success just stealth vege)
Blueberries, peppers, cucumber and tomatos were all rejected :-(

She does seem a lot hungrier this past week as her walking as really picked up. So that's a good sign I guess.

That's a very good day zimm! My dd also has a massive love for cream cheese and I use it also to disguise what she is eating (thus feeding this addiction!)
Interesting about the walking/being hungrier. My dd is not there yet so I shall look forward to seeing if things improve when the time comes!

Lollipop - the walking has also improved her sleeping - we've had the odd 12 hour night!!!! (This is amazing for DD). Yesterday not so good - wouldn't eat much dinner at all (butternut squash, corgeutte aand lentils with vege sauce. Not a lot of lunch either.

I left DD with DH for a few hours over lunch today and she apparently went mad for pesto covered olives. When I say went mad for, I think she ate 3, but this is a record!

I wonder if DD will improve (eating and sleeping) when she gets more mobile, she has double jointed hips and is not expected to walk until sometime between 18 months and 2 years according to the HCPs that have seen her. Could be a long wait...

Zimm, reading what your DD (could have) had for lunch has made me hungry.

Thinking about the cream cheese hiding method, one of my friends dipped her DDs tuna sandwich in yoghurt to get her to eat some, which made me laugh. The things we do. She ate it though!

jointhedots - glad my menu appeals to you at least! Bizarrely my DD has also been known to chow down on the odd olive - do they appeal to fussy eaters??? Most odd.

I've done the yoghurt dipping too...

Today DD ate:

1.5 wheatbix for breakfast plus plain yoghurt
Half a bannana for lunch, 1 oatcake, box of raisins, organix snack bar about 4 organix biscuits (bad mother) 1 bit of dried mango (oooo new food alert!)

Dinner was a failure - homemade chilli with cream cheese - spat out:-( Small amount of yoghurt. Ho hum.

About 5 BF's.

Oh please can I join? My 14 month hardly eats anything, and I do confess I breastfeed him all through the night and several times a day too.

I also do what I've been told I shouldn't and offer him the whole of the kitchen's offerings until we get to something he eats (usually sultanas...).

He eats (miniscule portions of before gets flung on the floor)

• toast/raisin toast (usually spread with fruit puree or avocado or banana)
• banana
• avocado
• cheerios sure these are the work of the devil and am not supposed to give him these
• sultanas
• beef & veggie if pureed
• chicken if pureed with not too many veggies in other than carrot/pumpkin
• will suck a bit of watermelon
• sometimes I can get away with grating a bit of cheese into purees
• yoghurt
• fruit puree
• baby porridge
• salmon puree
• cheese on toast

oh my goodness looking back at this it's even worse than I thought! It's just a tiny bit of baby food and is not healthy at all!

Not sure what to do!