Fussy 10 month baby!!

[Pjksmum]

Started weaning ds at 19 weeks and he immediately took to all the purees I made. However over time he struggled with textures. At times projectile vomiting when they got too much for him.

We are now at the point where he will not touch rice pudding any more, will not have any fresh fruit only Ella's kitchen and hipp purees. The only finger foods he will eat are ( god help me) chips and crusts off bread. He literally throws everything else on the floor. He will eat veggies if they in his meals and they have to be whizzed up to a reasonably smooth mixture. I gave him cous cous yesterday and he squealed the house down so I gave in and gave him his fromage frais and fruit instead.

Health visitors tell me it's important hes eating lumps to develop his speech but I don't know what else to do!

Helllllllllp!!!

Just offer what you want him to eat and nothing else? That's what I do with DD. She has 3 meals and 2 snacks and even if she doesn't like lunch, she will bound to like the snacks or dinner. Especially I do try to be not so mean and give her some yoghurt, cheese, pasta or egg each day, so she has something to eat. And breakfast is always toast, cereal and pancakes. She is so used to them that she's bound to eat them. No normal child will starve himself you know.

Your HV I think is referring to the ability to chew and swallow. 10mo is rather late to not be able to do that.

Thank you!!!

I do offer him what I want him to eat but perhaps I give in too quickly when he refuses it! Im not very good at giving him snacks as I worry he'll over eat. At the moment he eats quite large meals as it is! For breakfast hell eat 1/12 weetabix plus yoghurt plus fruit purée at lunch hell have a main meal eg pasta, potato or rice based with a meat and veg then a fromage frais and fruit then for evening meal hell have a similar main meal to lunch and either fruit or fromage frais or custard.