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Gone backwards after illness (sorry long worried ramble)

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fluffyanimal · 12/03/2007 15:02

My poor ds (who's 1 on Wednesday) has had every bug going since starting nursery in January. Over the last 3 weeks he's had a really bad fluey throat infectiony thing, swiftly followed by the good old d&v. The throat thing made it very hard for him to swallow, and then of course the sick bug put him off his food too. He's lost tons of weight in this time (don't know how much but he's starting to look skinny to me). Now he is over his bug but seems to have gone back to square one with regard to food textures. He gags on even well mashed food and with finger food seems to put too much into his mouth at once and then gag and puke. I've had to go back to sloppy purees. Feel very depressed and worried about this because I want to build him up, and he'd just begun to have a really varied diet of food like we'd have, and now it's all vegetable slop and yogurt again.

Guess I'm just posting for people to tell me it's OK and he's not going to starve or be one of those toddlers who grows up only eating chocolate mousse. Not that I feed him chocolate mousse but you KWIM.

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GingGangGooley · 12/03/2007 17:42

it's OK and he's not going to starve or be one of those toddlers who grows up only eating chocolate mousse! lol!

truthfully he won't honest!

My DD had bad D&V before christmas and was off food and milk. It was heartbreaking after she was doing soooo well with BLW.

It will take time and more practice him getting used to it again.

She was also thrown out of synch after 4 teeth came through at once a few weeks ago.

Don't panic and just think he's out of practice so keep giving him lumpy food and finger foods he'll get there! It is like starting again (DD gagged a bit when we first started) but it doesn't mean he'll be that mousse eating toddler

hth x

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