Sweet tooth?

[Amieej]

Hi

My 10 month old literally refuses all but sweet things 😫

He was eating pretty much everything before getting his top teeth and starting nursery and catching all the bugs but now refuses or clamps his mouth shut whenever we sit down to eat.

He will eat the odd bit of toast, a spoon of dinner and I'm at my wits end tbh. Will happily snack on melty puffs but I have had to cut these down as I don't think they are a healthy alternative.

Nursery do not help the situation and often give him a fruit pouch or yogurt when he's not eating his dinner..

Any ideas please? He will totally refuse his previous favourites sweet potatoes, cheesy pasta , spag bol etc..

Thanks x

If he's clamping his mouth shut are you spoon feeding or giving ginger foods or both?

At this age, if he's refusing the spoon, I'd give him something he can feed himself and just let him complain and smear it in his hair get on with it.

Unless you eat pudding with every meal, I'd just stop offering a sweet treat afterwards or an alternative. Not sure why Nursery are offering an alternative. He literally has no incentive to try anything new if he knows that something better is on its way.

I always offer both spoon and finger foods, I have even tried letting him have a go with the spoon.. sometimes he just swipes everything off of his tray. Today was a better day he actually ate a bit of his broccoli 🥦

Week days I think it's just too late and he's too tired to eat so need to rethink mealtimes for after nursery maybe?

My thoughts exactly on nursery.. I am tempted to say to hold back on the sweet things in a hope he will eat his dinner but its all new and I feel I'm being picky..

Yes to the tired thing. DD not at nursery yet but I have found that if I time dinner wrong and she is getting tired she is more likely to refuse food.

May not be the best method but I purée fruit & will either give her a spoon of fruit and alternate between that and dinner - or will prepare a spoon of dinner & dip the tip of the spoon in purée basically tricking her into opening wide. Once she gets a taste for it she will then continue eating.

Along with the trickery theme - offering water, she opens mouth & spoon goes in.

Thats pretty much been my trick to get a few spoons into him but he gets wise after a few so no good.

I must admit these past few days he's been alot better and I can only put it down to changing back to his number 1 milk. I'm going to see how he is at nursery tomorrow and Thursday before asking them to refrain from sweet things. If he's eating a little better he may be more inclined to try his dinner at least.