7 month old stopped eating

[february1970]

7 month old DD has been weaned since 5.5 months and was eating everything I gave her, cereals/fruit/veg/meat/yogurt/puds, very happily. Has suddenly stopped wanting to eat and I fear that mealtimes are becoming stressful for her as she has started to cry when I bring out the food. I have been giving her homemade purees and putting finger foods on her tray but she shows little interest in eating from her spoon (even when I give her the spoon) or in feeding herself. I think that she is teething (gumming, slightly loose nappies, grumpy). What should I do? She will take some milk but a fraction of what she normally drinks. I have brought out all of her faves to try and tempt her but no joy. Any advice please????

my dd is also 7 months, and although she hasn't gone off all foods she had definately cut down on milk, and today she refused the yoghurt that she has been having most days for a number of weeks.

I have started making up lots of smaller bottles and trying a fresh bottle every hour or so, its stressful because I worry that she will wake at night as she will be hungry.

She is probably teething, if eating solids is getting stressful just try and stick to the milk for a few days, and try again after.

You could perhaps try cold food like cold mango or melon, that way it would numb the gums for her. Just a thought. Good luck

Thank you, Natzer. She is not really drinking her milk either hence she woke up very thirsty in the night but at least she has had some liquid. Otherwise she seems okay although rather fractious. I will give her some cold food later. You are right, it IS stressful, I worry that she is going to lose weight and not thrive.

It sounds like she probably is teething, it's stressful but it will pass. DD is 16 months and has periods where she doesn't eat much at all if she's teething or poorly and it always passes after a few days.

Just keep offering food and milk and when she's ready she'll eat it again.

I also find that a dose of baby ibuprofen really helps if the teething pain is really bad because it reduces the inflamation.

Thank you, I did give her calpol with paracetamol yesterday. Not sure what the difference is between paracetamol and ibuprofen, is one better than the other? Don't have any ibuprofen at home.

They will both help with the pain but I think ibuprofen has better anti infammatory properties. Calpol will certainly do if that's all you have :)

Thank you, I did not know that, I will buy some in the morning. Calpol has helped to settle her and she drank a whole bottle of milk for the first time in a while.