DS only eats bread products!

[vtiredmummy]

Can anyone offer suggestions???

DS nearly 1yo has got progressivley worse with eating habits. Used to eat cereal and toast for breakfast, cooked meal, dessert and biscuit for lunch, sandwich/cooked meal and dessert for tea.

Now...spits out cereal - baby cereal or standard cereal, eats some toast.

Spits out hot meal, but eats bread, breadsticks , bascuit or similar. Occasionally has fruit puree dessert.

Then eats bread from sandwich and discards fillings, spits out hot meal, eats fruit puree dessert sometimes.

This has been since I returned to work in September (I only work 2 1/2 days a week). My mum looks after DS whilst I'm at work. Apparently she has no trouble at mealtimes!

I give a wide variety of food, protein, carbs and vitamins. Limit dairy as he has eczema. Tried no snacks in between. Tried cutting down on milk. But to no avail. Both DH and I fight over who will feed DS now as it is such a traumatic experience (at least 1 hour per meal).

Can anyone help us?

[ScarletA]

Warning - evil mummy about to speak.

I am a fond proponent of starving a child into submission... I had probs like this on and off with both my kids and it was my dear Dad (retired doctor) who helped me see sense. He told me that no child would willing starve itself, something which requires nerves of steel but really does work. So offer no or little bread and lots of other yummy stuff for as long as it takes. And no 'persuasive' talk at meal times, as they LOVE this (lots of attention over what they're not about to eat) - just put food down when everyone else is eating, if he doesn't eat, don't make a fuss, tell him you'll take it away if he's not hungry and then just take it away. Key to this is don't act like you're at all bothered. It depends on the child, but it really does work. Honest.

Of course, you can totally ignore this if you are a nice kind mummy.

[becksmummy]

My dd got like this (now 16mths) I found that she started to not have anything that had to be spoon fed (other than yoghurt and with that she has to do it herself!) so was only eating bread, toast etc. Do you give the hot meals as finger food or is he spoon fed?

I now give her all meals as finger food, at first try things like cheese on toast or spread something on the sandwiches so at least he gets some sandwich filling and not just the bread. (dd likes cheese spread, peanut butter, marmite etc)

I then increased the fingers foods and dd now loves pasta twirls, fish fingers, potato wedges, chicken nuggets, cucumber, tomatoes, most fruit(bananas a favourite at the moment) all these are easy to hold and feed herself, she also prefers dry cereal which again she can just pick up and eat!

[bunnyhunny]

if I started making my own bread products for ds, it would put him off bread for life

[terramum]

Start making your own bread with various things in them? Olive bread, tomato bread etc

[bunnyhunny]

bump. ds is 10 months old and seems to have a penchant for bread products too...

[hippyracer]

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