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Help. 13 month old refusing solid food

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ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 05/07/2013 07:57

Aarg. My baby has always been pretty good with food. BLW and great with a fairly wide range. Small for her age but healthy and happy. Suddenly not eating anything but olives and sweetcorn, which go straight through her. We are on holiday and she has a cold. These are the only mitigating factors I can see. It is now day 4 of barely anything to eat, fighting to not go in high chair and screaming to get down.

She is upping her milk intake but I don't know if I should pull back on this to get her eating proper food? Seen a few threads about 16 month olds being tricky eaters but she is just 13 months.

Getting very stressed.

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justalilmummy · 05/07/2013 07:59

If shes got a cold she may not feel much like eating, maybe her throat is hurting thats why she won't take solids.
Also is she teething? My ds would always go back to almost all puree until the tooth had cut through

CreatureRetorts · 05/07/2013 08:02

What kind of food is available? Any fruit? Bread? Simple stuff?
To be honest as you're on holiday I just go with whatever she eats, try and get some plain food, then see how she is when you're home.

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 05/07/2013 11:15

We have lots of plain food and I'm making stuff she has at home. But even then the few things she's eaten have been hardly basic baby stuff. Amongst the few things she's eaten was some very rich porcini mushroom sauce.

Guess we have to just persevere and not worry too much until she's at home.

She IS teething but purée isn't what she wants. She had a bit of cracker the other day. Could be that it's nice to chew I suppose.

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noblegiraffe · 05/07/2013 11:21

Let her up her milk, keep offering food, she will come back to it when she feels better.

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