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DD2 nearly 7mths

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Nemo2007 · 27/07/2007 10:56

She basically wont eat anything..she hardly drinks formula as it is . She has about 20ozs formula in 24hrs. I have tried giving her finger foods and purees and she wont really take either. Finger foods she will just squeeze them with the occasional nibble which have the time she regurgitates. Purees she spits out. So what do I do from here?? I havent had her weighed since she was 4mths as they were going on about failure to thrive as she had dropped to 2nd centile. She is otherwise a fairly happy baby[apart from current teething] and is on track for development.

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RuthChan · 27/07/2007 14:12

If she is currently teething, you may find that's the reason that she's refusing to eat.
Teething seems to be a pretty big upheaval for many babies and as she's not yet 7 months old, eating is a pretty new concept to her.
Have you tried her on different kinds of finger foods and different flavours of purees?
Many babies need at least 3 or 4 intros of a new food before they'll accept it.
My DD will eat most things, but she obviously has pretty strong preferences about things she loves and things she's reluctant to eat.
Have you tried your DD with bread? It's easy to eat and many babies seem to enjoy giving it a good chew and suck.

On the other hand of course, she is only just beginning to learn to eat. It is quite normal for finger foods to be regurgitated at that stage. Eating is more of a game and an exploration, less about nutrition and actual ingestion. She will get the hang of eating and will get better at it with practice.
Right now, even when she gets food into her mouth, she probably doesn't know how to deal with it and swallow it yet, so regurgitation is her only option.

I'm afraid I don't know about volumes of formula, as long as she's wetting and filling nappies, and she's happy and healthy, then you probably have no need to worry.
Different babies drink different amounts and babies also drink different amounts themselves as they go through teething, growth and activity phases.

If you're really worried about her weight, you could either take her to get weighed or even weigh her yourself using your bathroom scales if you want a rough idea.

Nemo2007 · 27/07/2007 19:39

thanks ruthchan. I have tried her on variety of foods offering the same type of thing three times over one day then trying something else the next day. The thing is she seems really interested in food and will shuffle/crawl to get at anyone elses food but once it is in her hand she just throws it on the floor and looks for the next thing. Think I will put her on bathroom scales tommorow and see how much she is weighing now.

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RuthChan · 28/07/2007 00:18

Ah yes, the 'everything tastes better and looks more interesting if it's on someone else's plate' syndrome. Know it well!!
My DD is far more interested in anything I'm eating too.
I really wouldn't worry too much though. As long as she's interested in food generally, which she clearly is, she'll get around to actually eating some of it eventually.

Maybe, rather than introducing the same foods 3 times in one day, you could try them on different days.
One of my DD's particular favourites is pumpkin. Have you tried her on that?

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