My 9 month old is refusing all food - please help......

[sarahdavies]

Hi. Thomas is nearly 9 months and has been a perfect eater until last week. He was breast fed until 7 months and I started weaning him at 6 months. He has been eating chicken and lamb , loads of different veggies and fruit and yoghurt but I started him on lumpy food last wek and he's now refusing to eat anything - since Saturday he's had a bit of toast and butter, a few spoons of cauli cheese and lumps of cheese...I won't give him yoghurt or fruit as I don't want him to think he can have that and not the other stuff - please help I don't know what to do.....Thanks Sx

my dd started weaning and around the same time as yours went off lumps till she was 13 months old. we didn't even get to doing meat ate nothing but readybrek, watery mash mixed with spinach, weetabix and yoghurt. out of nowhere she just started to grab stuff, literally, off my plate. she eats a wide variety of flavours too.

i think it is a developmental thing linked to developing sensitivity to texture. not that he is choosing what he will eat.

give him what he will accept, try new things from time to time and don't sweat it. its not personal and he doesn't have an agenda. lots of babies don't eat till well past a year and they are all healthy and fine.

he may be teething. DS goes off food when he has teeth coming.
I think at 9 months he is too young to really get the whole "no pudding if you don't have dinner" thing so if he'll eat if give it to him!
he may also prefer some finger foods to gnaw on. toast, breadsticks, steamed veg etc