Please help - 9 month old eats NOTHING!!!

[pollydianasmummy]

Have tried everything - she hates it all. The minute a spoon is brought out she cries. She doesn't like blw - will never actually swallow anything. Tried yoghurt - liked them but hates them now because of the spoon. Tried purees - again a no go. tried salami, ham, toast, cheese, eggs everything but she does not eat. And I can't even get her to try anything or even taste anything now. I'm at my wit's end and getting a bit depressed about it. I breast feed and i know she just wants that.

If I hold back on bf then she just cries and cries - she doesn't correspond solid food with hunger abatement.

Has anyone else had a child this old that won't eat anything? I feel like we have made no progress. I'm still at the start of the weaning journey. Please help!

God it sounds so frustrating

I know the advice is 'food is for fun untl they are one' so maybe take a step right back from it all

so at lunch time you eat a yoghurt and then just let her put her finger in it and lick it if she wants, don't try and get her to eat any of it, eat toast and see if she makes a grab for it, don't botther with the highchair just eat yourself and hold her and see if she wants anything that way

My 10month old eats very little as well. No advice though but dd seems very healthy so I'm just trying not to worry about it. One thing that does help a bit is eating our stuff. She will eat dh's sandwich far, far more readily than anything we offer her iyswim.

Hello!

our DS is 11 months old and I am still having trouble with weaning! I am hoping at some point the penny will drop with him and take to it like a fish to water (its very optimistic of me I know!). One minute he will like something, the next he wont, sometimes I feel its impossible! He doesn't like yoghurt or banana, he just about manages breakfast (half a jar of either creamy rice breakfast or creamy porridge, he wont take the make up porridge).

I am at my wits end too, so you are not alone honey! I am sure if any one has any handy tips, please throw them our way! :D

DD1 was desperate for solid food from 3/4 months so I was really surprised when DD2 showed no interest at all. She drank gallons of milk and would sometimes gnaw at a banana. I sometimes thickened her milk with baby rice etc. but she much preferred BM or formula. When she turned one she just suddenly became interested in what we were having and started eating perfectly normally. I wondered if it was because her teeth came through very late?

I feel your pain! And am really glad I'm not alone. My DS is 7.5 months and I also feel as if am making no progress whatsoever... in fact this last week or so it's been backwards steps... I feel so disheartened and inadequate when I hear / read about all the 6 month olds eating steak! (Lots of MNeters seem to like declaring this proudly and it just makes me want to cry!)
DS has also started hating the spoon but doesn't have much interest in self feeding either. I don't know whether to persevere with purees/ mushed up stuff/yoghurts etc or to abandon them entirely and concentrate on finger foods.
Also he still glugs down 35ish oz of formula a day and I know I should reduce this but at mealtimes he just wails pitifully until I give in.
His weight is fine and he sleeps 12hrs a night so perhaps I should just stop panicking? Any help gratefully received.

For what it's worth my 14 month old has always been very similar to this and has just got better and seems a lot more interested in food (he is still crap compared to his contemporaries but it's nowhere near so frustrating) He wasn't this bad until 14 months though, but he only had a few things that he would eat at about 12 months, and it was driving us mad. Keep trying stuff but try not to get too frustrated. With our DS he would suddenly decide he liked something after all after having it presented to him day after day and show no interest.

They are all so different and I don't think it's that uncommon to have babies that just aren't that interested in solids at 9 months.
I am sure all my friends thought I was feeding DS disgusting food or something and that was why he wouldn't eat - haha - but I really don't think it was anything we were doing wrong per se, I think it's just the way he is/was.

DD2 took really slowly to food too a shock to me as dd1 took to it like a duck to water. I started them both at 6 months. Now at 13 months dd2 is really coming into her own

This is what I did, BF as normal. Ensure she is involved at every meal, sit her in her highchair at the table with you & give her some to "play" with, ensure you offer a variety of things. Most of it will end up on the floor - do not stress about this!! In my experience of BLW even if you think they are taking nothing they are taking a little & the amount they swallow slowly increases. This may be tmi but use nappies as your guide not the apparent lack of food dissapearing iyswim.

Remember as compo says "food is fun until they're one"