10-month-old who eats practically nothing

[Philomytha]

Hi all, I'm fairly new around here but I wonder if you could help/reassure me. My DS is 10 months old and is breastfed and eats practically no solids. If I offer him stuff on a spoon he takes a tiny bite of it and mostly turns his head away. If I try the BLW route and give him finger food he shreds it and plays with it but only eats a microgram of it. I would say on a good day he eats about three teaspoons of solid food, and it's been like this since I started weaning him at six months. I'm not the world's most enthusiastic maker of baby food; I just mash up what we're having or give him appropriate bits of it as finger food. He has all the breastmilk he wants and last time I had him weighed at 8 months he was gaining weight on his curve. Are there other babies like this? Do I need to worry about iron deficiency or any other deficiencies, and what kind of food should I focus on offering him to make sure he gets the right nutrients? Will he ever get used to eating solids, and when? Is there some other way of encouraging him to eat that I haven't thought of? Am I just worrying too much? Help!

ds is only 23 weeks and only just starting with blw so not sure on the iron thing.
I would have thought that if you force him to eat it will turn into a battle.
Have you tried not bf before meal times?

my ds ate about the same ammount at that age too. He just didn't have the appetite for them. About that time i decided to dramatically cut his milk down to 3 feeds a day and he immediately started taking more solids. I wouldn;t be too worried. I think that up till a year the solids are really just about getting to know tastes and textures

He sounds fine. He will eat. Bfeeding is fab because it "fills in the gaps" and then some nutritionally so you can do this relaxed playing about with food thing. DS2 had bits of pasta, sweet potato and banana today and much in the way of bmilk. He's 8mo.

My ds was like this! Just keep offering healthy foods, eat with him, don't stress about it and he will get an appetite eventually. It sounds like you are doing all the right things but maybe kellymom will reassure you

Thank you all. I certainly don't want to get into a battle with him - if he refuses what I offer, I don't push the issue, and I don't think he finds mealtimes at all fraught. It's just when health visitors go on about 'three meals a day' and other mums talk about how their younger baby devours big bowlfuls of babyfood every day, I wonder if I've done something dreadfully wrong. I can tell he's fine, but he's not behaving like a 'textbook' baby so I get confused. It's very reassuring to know that other babies are like this too.

my ds didn't start eating solids properly till he was 13 months old. my hv assured me this was no problem, they'll still get nutrients from the breastmilk until they are ready to eat. try not to worry too much!