Gone off Solids

[mairimac]

My wee boy is 6.5 months old. He's been taking baby rice, pear, apple, sweet potato and butternut for about a month now. However this last week he simply refuses to open his mouth for food, he cries, get's upset and even pushes my hand anyway if I go anywhere near with the spoon. I'm feeling terrible, like I've done something wrong. I don't know where to go from here. Do I go back to the beginning and start again?

Could it be teeth? ds has completely refused solids for a few days every time a tooth has been coming through.

I would keep offering solids at the same times but also offer finger foods as well. Or even just an extra spoon to hold. At this age they get most of what they need from their milk so try not to worry too much, i know its hard :)

Yes he is teething, he has been teething since he was 2.5 months old and has 2 teeth and one on the way. Things have never seemed this bad, but I have a horrible feeling it's me that's causing it. He started nursery last week as I went back to work this week and so with all the new stuff going on and the teething - can't help. However when do I begin to panic as he won't drink his formula at nursery either. So no food or drink all day:(

I found that just keep on offering (gently) was the way forwards. they soon get the hang of it. Let him see you eating too - some just aren't that enthusiastic yet.

When my ds was teething around this age, we found out that he loved cold fruit puree - straight from the fridge. Must have soothed his mouth.

BTW my ds took a while to take much milk at nursery too - I just gave him a calm quiet big feed morning & evening and he soon got used to the bottle.

(sorry new to this and don't know all the abbreviations - is there somewhere you can find out what they mean?) Like ds?
Anyway my son likes yoghurt and cold fruit too, bu that seems to be all he likes. He will eat that at nursery but nothing else.

My wee boy is like this too. He's now 8 months and by far the most successful meals are ones when he feeds himself finger foods. He often tollerates spoon feeding of fruit purees or yogurt after he's eaten his main course himself. Have you tried any finger foods? The first thing DS ate was the Organix baby rice cakes (apple flavour) and he soon worked up to toast, cooked veggies, soggy cereal and cooked pasta.

Don't worry if he's not interested for a while. I think that the novelty of solids wears off for a while.

There's a link to the acronym list at the top of the page under "useful stuff".

DS is darling son. BTW is by the way.

HTH (hope that helps )

thanks, knew alot of them but not all relating to babies and children etc.

This sounds like my DS. He's 6.5 months too and has been eating like a horse for weeks - then this week won't eat any of his veg purees - only wants the fruit or sweet potato. I'm hoping it's a phase!

My DD did this at about that age. She was eating just fine, then suddenly would not eat a thing! It lasted a couple of weeks - I got really worried - then after a few sleepless nights two teeth emerged one after the other, and miraculously her appetite returned!

It's probably just a phase - as Catilla says, just keep offering, and try finger foods if he won't tolerate a spoon. Try not to get downhearted when he refuses - one day he will start to get his appetite back, and you'll wonder why you ever got so worried!!

I've heard that the first top teeth tend to be more troublesome to cut than the bottom two. So that might be affecting his appetite.