11 month feeding help

[ColdMama]

My LO is 11 1/2 months old and has never been great with solids but I feel like I’m getting nowhere! He’s ok being spoon fed, but only basic things!

E.g. breakfast he will eat porridge, weetabix, Greek yoghurt, etc. if I spoon feed him. Lunch could be an Ella’s/hipp tub (half a tub) and a yoghurt or custard or jelly. He can eat the 12m + one’s fine. Tea I try to offer him finger foods like fruit slices, sandwich, toast, crumpet etc and he just throws it on the floor without even trying it really.

He has 3 bottles a day currently.

Any ideas of how to get him to start eating more finger foods? He’ll eat the melty puffs/rice cakes/ baby crisps absolutely fine.

Could it just be that he still only has 2 teeth and struggles?

I see all these other babies eating proper meals and were nowhere near there! I’m lucky if he eats half a tub/pouch. Today he had 3 spoonfuls and that was it.

I’ve tried making food myself for him MANY times and he will not touch it! Whether purées or finger food.

Have you looked at Solid Starts and followed their advice? It solved our picky eating and weight loss problems, my little girl was basically eating nothing at about the same age. We stuck to it ridgidly and after a month or so we cracked it. We did have a hospital referral but their help wasn’t nearly as good.

solidstarts.com/baby-or-toddler-throwing-food-on-the-floor/

solidstarts.com/10-steps-to-prevent-or-reverse-picky-eating/

What time are the bottles and what time are the meals? Can you shuffle things so he is hungrier at meal times?

What happens if you let him play in his high chair with food bits on his tray like shredded cheese, cereal pieces, melon bits, baked beans?

I’ve just seen that Solid Starts are doing a live Q&A today on food throwing, may be useful!

@ColdMama

What times are you giving milk abs solids and how big are the bottles?

Is he following his centiles and meeting his milestones as well?