Weaning

[sophiaLeo]

My DS just turned 1 years old and he is proving to be extremly fussing with his food and his milk.... I need advice !!

I tried last night to swop to his first bottle of cows milk and he wouldn't even swallow it and proceeded to then go into a tantrum until I gave his his usual formula... any advice with weaning onto cows milk?

Secondly his fussiness with food is getting almost worst, he will only eat fruit chopped small for breakfast with a yogurt pouch. Refuses cereals, porridge and all the other usual breakfast foods.

Lunch & Dinners is where I really struggle....
He will only eat smooth pouches, He refuses to eat the next stage pouches that have lumps or spices added to them, including anything with a meat or fish flavour. He won't eat vegetables unless in a pouch.
He also won't eat pasta, rice or eggs in any form.
The only things I manage to get him to eat are crackers, bread, quesadilla's and some times chip and homemade pizza's. He loves tomatoes so they are part of most meals.

I feel like I'm spending so much money and time cooking and buying things to try with him and all I get is him spit it out and then launch it across the room and tantrum until I give up and give him a cracker.

My DS does have a very short attention span and really struggles to sit in his high chair for long before he gets frustrated.

any advice is welcome, I'm a first time mum and don't have many friends with children x

Add the cows milk gradually to his bottle of formula and mix it until it is all formula. Do it over a couple of weeks.
With food, try him with what you are eating.

With the milk, slowing phase in the cows milk. So if he has 8oz of formula, put in 7oz formula, 1oz cows milk for a few nights. then 6oz formula and 2 oz cows milk for a few nights etc etc. It made my DD constipated at first so we had to go back to formula for a while and then do a week of every cows milk increase to get her used to it.

Food wise, I'm afraid I don't have any pearls of wisdom, aside from keep trying he hopefully he will get there in the end! It's beyond frustrating when they throw food on the floor that you've spent ages making though!!

If he doesn't like his high chair, what about floor picnics, or get him a little table and chair to sit at? DD quite happily munches away on fruit whilst playing with toys but gets arsey if I try to get her to eat it in her high chair - NO MORE MUMMY!

I tried what you suggested with the milk this evening and he finished his bedtime bottle with 5 oz formula and 2 oz Cows Milk, so will keep with that gradually increasing over the next few weeks and see how we go. Thank you....x

Tried him with eating dinner on the floor and unfortunately he still just didn't want to eat my cheesy pasta and spat it all out so resulted in a sweet potato pouch and yogurt. just worried he isn't getting the right nutrition, Not much protein for one, Im a very plant base clean eater myself so I'm feeling such guilt when all he currently will eat is basically dry food or super smooth puree..:(

Does he take vitamins, they should help cover any gaps whilst he's getting used to textures. Could you try adding a small amount of rice to a pouch, increasing the amount slowly if he accepts it? It might just be a slow and tedious waiting game though!

I think the issue may be that you’re offering alternative OP. I know it’s worrying when they refuse a musl, but it’s a natural thing they do. Babies are very goid at self regulating. If it helps, try to keep a food diary so that you can look at what he eats over a week, rather than an indivisible meal.

If he’s fussy over breakfast, could you drop the first bottle so the first thing he gets is breakfast?

I would stop offering the pouches and yogurt. They aren’t necessary and at his age, with no alternative, he’ll fill up on milk at his next feed. But in time will start to eat what you offer. Unless mine were sick or for some other reason needed to eat, I’d never offer anything but the family meal. My eldest is 5 and eats nearly anything now (but if she doesn’t, she knows it doesn’t mean she gets something else).