Help! My baby girl has always been a pretty rubbish eater but it has got much worse over the last 10 days or so. Basically she refuses to eat anything but melon, satsuma, yoghurt and rice cakes and I am getting very stressed about it.
We have done a mixture of spoon feeding and baby led in terms of weaning but it took until she was about 8 months until it clicked and she started swallowing food. However, since then it has been really hard to try and give her a varied diet - she normally loves fruit and veg (puréed or in chunks) but protein has always been more of a challenge, especially as we are bringing her up as a vegetarian (but with fish. Piscetarian?). She hates eggs, most forms of fish (except Ella's fish pie pouch and fish fingers) so we have been experimenting with different recipes with lentils and pulses.
At the moment she has started being so fussy. If I go near her with a spoon she bats it away with a cry and tries to hide her face in her hands. The only time she doesn't do this if it has yoghurt on it. We have started doing lots more finger foods on her tray but unless it is melon, rice cakes, banana or satsuma she just picks it up and drops it on the floor. She doesn't even try it first before rejecting it. It is really getting me down and I am really worried about the fact her diet is so limited at the moment. She is still breast feeding (lots) and we give her wellkid vitamins but I know that isn't a substitute for real food. Please let me know if you have any advice, and thanks if you have read this.