15 month old panic

[Fatback]

My 15th month old is a nightmare to feed.

He went through all the purees and gradually got lumpier, different textures, flavours etc, gets finger food- never a huge appetite but would eat.

All going well until I gave him scrambled eggs and he had an anaphylactic reaction, since then rapidly gone down hill:

Am I panicking over nothing:

Breakfast ; 1/3 slice of toast with vegemite, 1 weetabix
Milk
Lunch and Dinner a struggle to get rice, pasta, potato,meat, vegetables and fruit of any description
Yoghurt - goes down a treat

Drinks happily from a cup

He will not let you put a spoon in his mouth unless it is weetabix or yoghurt. insiists on trying to feed himself but misses most of the time and then gets frustrated. Finger foods are picked up, chewed and the mush spat out.

I sit there as if it is all normal behaviour but am getting desperate. He is growing and putting on weight but will not walk on his own, stnads, walks holding hand but will not walk on his own.

I think that sounds perfectly normal on the evidence of one baby of my own. I'd be delighted if she'd ever eaten a whole weetabix! She's now two and wouldn't eat a whole weetabix if you paid her.

I would give him what he likes. Yoghurt is v nutritious and you can mix it with fruit purees or fresh chopped fruit of various kinds. Maybe try rice pudding with fresh fruit, porridge with raisins or risotto?

If he's not happy with spoons, I wouldn't push it. My daughter hated them until recently but can now feed herself anything with a spoon and fork, even soup.

If he's growing, happy, producing plenty of wet/dirty nappies, I'd try and back off a bit and calm down. Easier said than done, I know!

Also, smoothies are great if he will drink from a cup - you can put plenty of fresh fruit and yoghurt in them and this is really all he needs apart from some carbs. Yoghurt has protein, fruit has vitamins and fibre and some carbs and actually his weetabix is full of fibre and carbs, too. Try not to stress!

I sit there smiling at him!

He is 99th for height and 25th for weight so get a lot of aggro from the HV mafia about his weight.

Everyone always goes on about how there children eat loads and everything but never sure how much is loads. Portion size in some of these guides would be great!!

Not usually a panicker but with all the other kids at nursery walking and him not, then the poor eating you do start to get paranoid. Does not help that he looks like a 2 yr old for size but was 5 weeks early aswell.

Good for you for smiling!

And the aggro about the weight must be infuriating. So he's going to be tall and slim? That sounds great.

Don't worry about the walking, either. Not walking at 15 months is perfectly within the normal range, from what I understand. He is weight-bearing if he's walking holding onto your hand which is the important thing, I think. Maybe he's just naturally cautious? My daughter walked holding onto my finger for about six months before she walked alone. I could tell she was perfectly capable of it as she wasn't using my finger for balance at all - it just took her a bit longer to find the gumption to let go and try it on her own. She is a very naturally cautious child but that's rather nice - she's the only toddler I know who actually pays attention to warnings about things being dangerous.