Help! 7 month old - suddenly started *screaming* throughout meals.

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Hi

I am absolutely desperate, so if you have experienced this, please offer me any advice (or just some comforting words!).

Started weaning at 5 1/2 months. Baby loved food, insisted on feeding self with spoon (even tho not much of it got in his mouth!). Is happy with any texture when he does eat. Is on 3 meals a day, with 3 milk feeds which happily guzzles down.

He's a twin, and my other baby is the perfect eater - 3 meals, any texture, any flavour - self feeding water from beaker - just looks on perplexed at the histrionics beside her!

In last 10 days, he's started going crazy the minute you take him near the high chair and nothing calms him other than completely removing him from any sign of feeding.

Dr's have checked him out - ears, gums and throat all fine. He is suffering from some constipation tho, which he's had off & on since born. He is teething, but Dr says that doesn't have anything to do with it.

I've offered him various finger foods and only thing he'll eat is rice cakes. And in between meals he'll happily chow down on a single baby rusk.

Advice PLEASE!

only thing i can think of is when ds did the same the HV suggested hiding the high chair for a week, feeding him elsewhere, and it worked. Not instantly but within a couple of days. Then hey presto back to normal.

Good luck

Are you sure it's nothing to do with teething? DS (9 months) has been teething for the last couple of weeks and has gone right off his food. He's been very upset in his high chair, often spontaneously bursting into tears after a mouthfull (if I manage to get one in him) and totally refusing anything spoon fed. However throughout he's never said no to a rice cake or something similarly crunchy .
Have you tried snacks whilst he's playing (cherios worked for us)? Or a picnic outside? We just tried to chill out and make everything more fun.

GP doesn't know what he's talking about, of course teething affects feeding. He's probably selecting things on the basis of whether they hurt his teeth or not. This too will pass - just offer different kinds of food and he'll eat what he can.