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BLW Help - DD 10 months BLW has stopped eating solid food and only wants to eat mush!

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lackaDAISYcal · 11/04/2008 14:41

Started on a combination of purees and BLW at 24 weeks. DD was fine with finger foods and hardly even gagged. At one stage she was happy eating all the components of a sunday roast.

Recently, we have been away and for convenience she was given a few jars/toddler type meals when we were out an about due to dubious salt levels of the food we were eating.

Since then, she seems to have gone off all home-cooked food, and either just throws it on the floor, spits it right back out or gags on it. she used to be quite happy with a tray full of bits that she would pick away at while we eat, with a few juducious spoonfuls thrown in from us just to make sure she was getting enough to eat.

She was eating my lovely home-made soup earlier (a few lumpy bits for her to finger feed, but me spooning the liquid bit in) and was physically shuddering as the food went down . she has now got her top teeth, so I was hoping that her ability to eat normal food waould have increased!

Is this a stage they all go through at this age, or have I spoiled her for proper food by a couple of weeks of mush (and boy is it muhs; a hipp toddler meal for supposedly age 15mo+ was basically pre-chewed gloop)

She is wanting to hold a spoon and trying to dig into her breakfast and soups etc so maybe it's a control thing? and her teeth were quite sore when they came through last week so maybe she's just a bit putt off.

Any advice?

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lackaDAISYcal · 11/04/2008 14:43

oops...too many spelling mistakes there

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lackaDAISYcal · 11/04/2008 14:50

bump

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jojosmaman · 11/04/2008 14:53

My ds did this at around the same time. We were well away with the BLW and I was harping on to anyone who would listen about what he is eating etc but then suddenly he stopped eating any solids and just wanted milk! Anyway, it only lasted a few weeks and he went back on to solids but in my opinion it was a growth spurt and teething at the same time that caused this blip! He still (at 14mths) will have a couple of weeks of being faffy with his food but just persevere. I have found the easiest way to do it is to be a strict BLW'er at these times (ie give them what your having) as then there is no waste of your time and effort, if they don't eat then they don't eat it.

jojosmaman · 11/04/2008 14:55

you're having

lackaDAISYcal · 11/04/2008 15:38

sounds like good advice, thanks

we've recently stopped BFing during the day so she might be getting too much milk as well (she usually has about 16-18ozs, plus a night time/early morning breast feed) and just isn't hungry for food.

we'll go back to BLW basics

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Bumperlicious · 11/04/2008 20:23

Sorry, no real advice daisy, maybe she just needs to "relearn" it IYSWIM?

lackaDAISYcal · 11/04/2008 20:27

result at teatime. I made tomato pasta with hama nd brocolli in and she ate it all herself. I didn't interfere help her at all, and actually let her help herself out of the bowl rather than giving her select bits on the tray. I must let go of my control freaky ways and let her be messy I think

Bless her she even gamely tried using her little fork!

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jojosmaman · 12/04/2008 20:04

Yes, I do this lots, ds will be not wanting to really eat so I give up and give him the bowl and he tucks in.. obv with the splash mat underneath!!

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