Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

Weaning

Find weaning advice from other Mumsnetters on our Weaning forum. Use our child development calendar for more information.

Flip

Original poster

Very fussy puree baby

18 replies

sensibleknickers · 01/09/2007 22:11

My 7 month old bottle fed DS started purees about 6 weeks ago. He is refusing everything but Weetabix, fruit and/or yogurt (which he loves). I tried all the suggested vegetable purees etc but he just clamps his mouth shut and cries. Any ideas? Should I be worried about iron/protein intake or is it still early days? He is taking 18-24 ounces of formula a day.

OP posts:

Jojay · 01/09/2007 22:22

It is still early days.

If he's taking that amount of formula, he should be fine, assuming his weight gain is on track etc.

Keep persevering and offering him a variety of things, and perhaps offer some very soft, well cooked veg as finger food - some babies prefer the independance of feeding themselves.

Good Luck!

Nightynight · 01/09/2007 22:23

His nutrition is probably ok from the formula. can you try him with finger foods like cooked carrot, which might be a bit more interesting than puree?

Nightynight · 01/09/2007 22:24

great minds

Jojay · 01/09/2007 22:29

Original poster

sensibleknickers · 01/09/2007 22:47

Thanks - I did try him with a piece of toast this morning which he gummed for a while so was thinking of trying more finger foods - am probably just a bit paranoid about nutrition as he is my first...

OP posts:

GoingNuts · 02/09/2007 18:08

I feel your pain. My 11 month old DS is disastrous. Mealtime has become so stressful. He drinks about 16oz of formula per day and is a very active baby but all he will eat is little bits of toast. Am I supposed to just give up and let him live on toast? So much of my time and effort has gone into the bin. I really don't know where he is getting his energy from. He is generally a very difficult baby. He had very bad colic and still wakes up every morning at 4:58 on the dot screaming for his bottle. Well of course he does, he's starving because he won't eat anything! I have tried to let him cry it out but he can scream for up to two hours, thus waking my 2 year old DS and that is not good news. I am at the end of my thether. I feel like I don't even know my 11 month old, like I have never bonded with him and his tantrums over food and early waking are about to tip me over the edge. Any advice anyone?

oranges · 02/09/2007 18:22

Please relax. Until 1, milk is meant to be the main source of nutrition - solids are just to get them used to tastes and textures.

GoingNuts · 02/09/2007 18:36

With all due respect Oranges, the "please relax" can only come from someone who isn't woken every morning at 4:58 by a hungry screaming baby. It is very difficult to relax when you haven't had a full night's sleep in over a year.

oranges · 02/09/2007 18:47

with all due respect, I was till very recently woken by a baby at 5am and was for a year. But hope you find a solution soon. Relaxing worked for me, but maybe it won't for you.

lulumama · 02/09/2007 18:49

milk should be the main source of nutrition for babies, food is an extra not a replacement

let baby get to know food, play and explore different textures, by trying baby led weaning , where you offer finger food, and the food you eat, rather than puree...

some babies just don;t sleep that well regardless of their food / milk intake

GoingNuts · 02/09/2007 18:53

Fair enough. I suppose having the two boys so close together has put a lot of pressure on. My two year old has never been a great eater either but we just sit him down at family meals with us and let him take it or leave it. I have tried that approach with my 11 month old but his is honestly just a very cranky baby. I think that's why it is so difficult to relax. Sometimes it is hard to like a child that is always crying and very rarely happy. It gets you down, makes you feel like a terrible mother and makes you wonder where you're going wrong.

pipsqueeke · 02/09/2007 18:56

ok this is going to sound really really odd now but around 7/8 months DS became v fussy with feeding (partly why we went to BLW tbh) anyhow I got around it by putting some main food on a spoon and then dipping it in yoghurt - would normally manage about 3 like this before I had to do one yoghurt then could do another 2 of the food mix as it were then yghurt again. once we did go wiht the BLW (and even now tbh) we do allow DS to ahve a yoghurt once most of his dinner has gone (he then dipps everything - and I mean everything in there) even toast! odd child but I figure he' eating so leave him be!

he should still be getting all of his neutrience etc from his milk so it's v early days for you.

GN - I was woken at one point every hour on the hour for about a week when we first started with DS weaning it wasn't pleasent but by relaxing he seems to find his own way more than us iycwim. it's really about finding what works for you and your baby.

PutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt · 02/09/2007 20:02

Interestingly enough - my DD chose to eat just bread and stacks of fruit until about a week or so ago. She's 8.5 mo now - finger food all the way, so just letting her take what she fancied. In the last week she's going for a huge variety of stuff. I wonder if it's because that's what she actually needed and she was eating 'smartly'. No constipation with her either . I just confess that I don't worry about the nutrition as long as I provide a variety of things and she can take what she likes and drinks milk, then I'm cool. She's well and happy and they get most of their nutrients from their milk anyway. I think learning to eat solids is a process that takes weeks and months - the gut has to get used to it at it's own pace too and each LO will be different!

PutThatInYourPipeandSmokeIt · 02/09/2007 20:06

Oooh going nuts - I don't know any of the details but have a think about whether it's worth taking your 11 month old to a cranial osteopath? It sounds like he's permanently uncomfortable and that would certainly interfere with his general mood / appetite / sleeping etc etc. Crying all the time is an indication of something and it's definitely worth a try.

Original poster

sensibleknickers · 02/09/2007 21:32

Gave DS broccoli and carrots today, little monkey stuffed the broccoli into his mouth and sucked the life out of it. He then ate half a plum too. The whole process took about 45 minutes and I'm not sure how much went in but he enjoyed it and it was much less stressful than trying to force puree into him. I did give him some fruit and yoghurt to fill him up afterwards though - I know that's not quite in the blw rules but he enjoys it!

Goingnuts - hope your night is better tonight.

OP posts:

pgTips04 · 03/09/2007 15:05

Goingnuts - have you spoken to your health visitor, weve been having difficulty getting 3 year old son to eat solid food (even nursey are aware of his eating habits) anyway she has now referred us to a dietian to help sort this problem out.

It might be whorth giving it a thought if have not gone that root yet

Good luck

Aitch · 03/09/2007 16:49

wow that is great, sensibleknickers. true, the extra feeding is not within blw 'rules' (insofar as there are rules) because we're really supposed to allow their appetite keep pace with ability to eat, iykwim, but it's a great leap forward. anyway, the purees up til now might have given him a larger appetite than he's capable of self-feeding so you might find youreslf phasing one out as the other takes over anyway. either that or he might grab the spoon right off you.

Jojay · 03/09/2007 19:22

That's great Sensibleknickers - it sounds like finger food may be the way forward for you.

Goingnuts - no magic solutions but just wanted to give you some sympathy

Flip

Swipe left for the next trending thread