Up until last week my DS was doing really well with weaning - on 3 meals and eating baby rice and fruit puree for breakfast and 6/8 ice cubes of mixed veg purees followed by a bit of fruit or yogurt for lunch and dinner. But over the past few days he's refusing veg and will only eat fruit. He's fine with the fruit puree at breakfast but for lunch and dinner he'll have 2/3 mouthfuls of veg puree (stuff that he previously wolfed down in the first 4/5 weeks of weaning like sweet pot/courgette/carrot/butternut squash) and then clamp his mouth firmly shut. Eager for him to eat something, I'll offer him the fruit puree and he'll open his mouth and wolf the lot down. I thought perhaps he might be bored of the taste of veg so tried some chicken at lunchtime but it was the same. Had 2 mouthfuls of chicken casserole then wolfed down apricot and apple puree. Should I stop offering the fruit purees altogether if he doesn't eat his veg first?
He's been a bit under the weather for the past few days too with cold possibly teething - could this be to blame? I wasn't sure if teething affected what they eat too.
I've tried mixing fruit with the veg but that dooesn't seem to help and neither does alternating mouthfuls of fruit and veg. Anyone got any ideas? Could it be just a phase?