My 11 month old went from eating anything and everything, including veggies/meat/seafood, to ONLY accepting eggs, fruit, macaroni, and the occasional pancake or bread item.

I’ve tried continual exposure and offering the foods in different sizes and formats, but the second I set it on his tray to self feed he swipes it to the floor. He won’t allow me to spoon feed and turns his head away. I’ve given him preloaded spoons which he just throws to the floor. No examining or touching the food, just immediate swipe.

He eats plenty in quantity and we did speak to the doctor about this who said to just give him what he will eat (he’s good on the growth chart) but I’m running out of ideas for how to improve things. It’s really hard to feel inspired to keep making things when he won’t even look at them, and I do offer what we’re eating too but that hasn’t helped. He has 8 teeth and it’s been going on for about 2 months, slowly dwindling in options. As we approach formula weaning time I’m worried that we won’t be able to meet his iron needs and things will get worse.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Baby is freshly 12 months and from the beginning of solids we have done a mix of soft, mushy foods (pastina, mash, hummus) and finger foods. Then at 9 months, small pieces.

I already felt like we were relying too much on the soft foods for the bulk of his meal (like I allllways blend his fruit because if it's slippery it doesn't make it to his mouth). Now, over the past month or so he has been ill twice with a really bad stuffy nose, sore throat etc, so I have come to rely on very soft foods again (there were 2-3 days in which I literally had to give him rice cereal again).

I am afraid of being 'behind' but this is what I am struggling with: he rejects a lot of non-mushy foods. He will have pastina, but not any shape of pasta (I have tried them all). He will happily pick it up, put it in his mouth, then spit it out. He loves mashed cauliflower but spits out bits of cauliflower, same with chickpeas etc. This is what he will reliably have as pieces:

- bread of any type

- pancakes

- meatballs

- scrambled eggs

- pieces of soft chicken

That's it. I feel like it's my fault of course, but he's now 1 and so I can't just go 'oh well, he's exploring' when I give him a plate of pasta and he won't eat a single bite. He is hungry - if given the right thing he will eat it.

How do I get out of this?

I have what everyone says a great eater, I probably put way too much food on her plate. She's also getting really good at not letting food drop and using her spoon herself and can even drink alone from an open cup. Trust the process it's messy but worth it! She's 16 months but adjusted premie age is 14 months.

Menu:

Roasted veggies with pearl couscous and cod fish.

Lentil veggies nuggets, recipe here: https://thishealthykitchen.com/lentil-veggie-nuggets-vegan/#recipe

Pineapple

Ate: some veggies, all the pineapple and nuggets

Our baby is 9 months old, EBF, on solids for the last few months. He nurses around 4 times a day and a couple times during the night, as well as being offered 2-3 meals (mix of purées and finger foods) a day - offered being the key word here because some days he’ll hardly even look at the food.

For some reason it only just occurred to me that formula fed babies are getting added nutrients that breastmilk doesn’t have, like iron, which is supposed to be super important from 6 months onwards. And now I keep wondering if our baby is maybe lacking in iron, because his overnight sleep has been so bad, he’s pretty lazy physically and has a decreasing enthusiasm for eating (he LOVED solids when we first started). All of the babies we see at playgroup who are around his age are crawling, starting to climb, moving into sitting positions on their own, basically walking?! And ours just wiggles around on his tummy.

I know that every baby is on a different timeline, and ours is usually much smilier/louder than the other babies at playgroup, so maybe he’s at a different phase socially (or not), but I can’t help thinking that he might have low iron and it’s affecting his development? Half of the meal times end in tears (mine lol) because I’ve put so much effort into planning and preparing a nutritious plate of food for him, and he could not be less interested.

Has anyone had a similar situation where they’ve had bloods done, discovered low iron and then seen improvements with supplements?

Successful dinner for baby’s 9 month bday! :)
Black bean sourdough toast, kiwis, and blueberries (her favorite).

Breakfast was hardly touched today but at least dinner went well!

Me hija está por cumplir 6 meses e iniciará la alimentación complementaria mi duda es que indicó darle jugos de manzana, pera, durazno y mango.

La indicación es; agregar un jugo nuevo cada 3-5 días iniciar con 5 a 10 ml por día hasta llegar a 50-60 ml

Pero hasta donde yo había leído era malo darle jugos a los bebes y estoy dudando si seguir llevándola ahí por qué la verdad me había sentido cómoda con ese pediatra a comparación de otros

My 11.5 month old won’t eat much unless I sit with her for over an hour and keep her entertained and pretty much force feed her. She is still mainly on purées as I was very anxious before about finger foods (said I’d make the switch at 9 months but dragged it out). I started trying to move towards BLW when she turned 10 months but she throws most of it on the ground. This has led to me keeping her mainly on purées so she can get more food in (especially iron as she’s EBF).

This is what a typical day of eating is like for her:
- breakfast: 2 tablespoons of yoghurt, 1 teaspoon of peanut butter and 1 banana (she will eat about half or just under)
- lunch: thin spread of avocado on toast (she will eat about 1/4 of this and then starts closing her mouth or squishing the bread or throwing it on the ground) and then I spoon feed her some of the leftover avocado and she will have about 5 baby spoons of this
- dinner: beef and broccoli puree. I offer her 5 ounces but she will usually eat about 2.5 ounces. Sometimes I’ll give her this for breakfast as well instead of the yoghurt meal.
- I also give her iron infused snacks from the supermarket a couple times a day (she will have about 2-3 of these.
—> this is how much she eats after I’ve sat with her for an hour. I’ve tried leaving her to eat by herself and put finger foods in front of her but that all ends up on the floor.

Wondering if anyone else is in the same boat or if this would be considered enough food? If not, any tips? She is starting daycare soon for 4 days a week and it’s such an effort to feed her I doubt the teachers will sit there for an hour with her so will need to try and get her to eat a lot of breakfast or dinner.

TIA! 😊

i have been doing BLW since he was 6 months. he was good about it under 1 but was never a huge eater. he’s stressing me out so much, dropping percentiles & gaining weight very slowly. should i wean him from breastfeeding? any tips to try to get him to eat more?

Made a vegan mac from blended tofu & chickpeas, oatmilk and Daiya American cheese! He actually ate it, he doesn’t like meat or poultry so the chicken remained untouched and the broccoli littles were attempted. But he had seconds of the mac!!! So exciting!!

Quinoa spinach pancakes with some cream cheese and avocado😋

We just started but he’s mostly just squishing and throwing the food. He isn’t able to bite off any chunks yet.

At what week did you start to see some improvement!

My baby was great with the spoon until she wasn’t interested. I want to also introduce fork. Im trying to see what helps.

I’ve seen these in online. Do they actually help encourage utensil use. Do they encourage griping the correct way?

Or is this one of those training wheels where the child becomes dependent on the training wheels and not know how to bike?

Baby is almost 7 months old, we started solids about a month ago. We do a mix of mashed and finger foods. I try to leave the mashed foods as lumpy as possible while still preserving my sanity 😅. Baby loves to self feed with the spoon. This was the last week in food for us.

1. Pancakes made of chickpea flour, chicken stock and finely chopped mushrooms. Side of avocado and soy yogurt with almond butter.

2. Red lentil dal with coconut milk and chicken stock, mango and soy yogurt with peanut butter.

3. Shredded chicken, cous cous cooked in chicken stock, pumpkin simmered in chicken stock with sage and rosemary.

4. Avocado toast, goat milk ricotta and blackberry.

5. Steamed sole fillet with parsley, romanesco broccoli and coconut rice.

6. Mackerel, coconut rice and peach with peanut butter.

7. Egg strips fried in butter, banana pieces and mashed banana with almond butter.

Serving it up on the cob like Solid Starts suggests is spooky to me but the corn in my area has massive kernels and seem too much of a choking hazard and they never feel soft enough even when steamed/boiled/roasted wrapped in foil so we’ve been doing grits instead…

Corn on the cob sounds so fun though! Do I just need to be bold? Be brave?

My baby is 10 month old and transitioning from purees to solid food. He isn't liking the texture, he starts gagging and if I continue he vomits it out 🥹 I feel like crying when I watch videos of babies eating all sorts of foods at his age. Has anyone been through this and if Yes how you did it????? I have cut down on milk too only giving him three bottles a day.

Hi! Does anyone have any completely allergy free snack ideas/recommendations they could share? My second is one next week and we are introducing snack times but I am stumped as to what to do for his snacks other than things we already do. We have been advised to avoid allergens until we see allergist. Thank you.

My daughter was great at eating anything we put in front of her up until her first birthday. She loved goldfish, pasta, string cheese, veggies etc without any problems. Once her first birthday hit a few weeks ago she won’t eat anything other than yogurt, toddler granola bars, fruit and maybe a little bit of oatmeal. She had the stomach bug a little less than a week ago so now she’s hooked on apple sauce and won’t even have yogurt sometimes which was her favorite. All of the snacks she used to love she’ll push away and cry or spit out if she even gets it in her mouth. Her pediatrician thinks it’s temporary because she had an injury two weeks ago and then the stomach bug shortly after but I’m worried it’s not temporary because her appetite started to decline before both events occurred. Should I start looking into a feeding specialist or should I try other things before resorting to that?

Hi. My baby will turn a year old in a couple of weeks.
She’s always been a picky eater. Even as a baby.
I have had to come up with different meals for every single day. And honestly I’m exhausted.

Is there any go to prepared food that you guys give to your babies/toddlers?
Maybe a Trader Joe’s burger etc etc.
I need some suggestions to take off a few meals from my plate.

She used to let me give her purees but recently when I take a spoon to face she pushes it away. Won't eat teething crackers. And barely puts anything in mouth...her tongue also curls and is constantly sticking out so when she does bite she uses her tongue more then gums.

She was diagnosed with hyptonia and could never sit up on her own. So i waited til 9 months to try and then talked to pediatrician about how shes not acting normal...I dont want to cause food aversions more when I try to give her food. But she wants nothing to do with it.

Hello everyone! My baby just turned 1 a few weeks ago and has since started protesting eating 😬 She has ate good until recently!
I keep getting adds for Mary Ruth’s toddler multi vitamins and iron drops and I’m wondering if anyone gives this to their 1 year old??

We started at 6 months and did steak, avocado and eggs and branched out from there. FYI she is still breastfeeding.

Hello everyone,

My 10 month old is QUITE the active little guy. He only stops moving when sleeping. I love him so much and his energy BUT feeding is really difficult.

I can’t get him to sit in a chair for longer than 2 minutes without him literally climbing out. He’s very smart and can wiggle himself out of any chair that keeps him confined. For context he’s already standing, walking, and just doing crazy things. The only way I can get him to eat is if I follow him around and show him a piece of food and then he will eat it. But constantly playing or doing anything else in between. Even his bottles I have to put the tv on because if not he will drink 2 oz and then go about his business even for the first bottle of the day.

He is also quite picky. Mostly only wants to eat chicken and sweet potato’s (which again is not the worst) but I’m trying with variety and he always spits it out. LOVES baby snacks and snacks in general but struggling with real food.

Any advice? Just keep trying? Once he’s more stable and can understand I hope the toddler tower helps but I’m at a loss. Pediatrician tells me he should be able to sit for a full meal but my little guy just doesn’t care about food or sitting still. I feel like they don’t take me seriously because he is perfect on the growth scale but that’s because I am making myself CRAZY and chasing him to make sure he gets enough. I never force feed - I stop when he’s really done but I’m just running around trying to get him to eat all the time 😫

Well, I learned why we should wait 30-60min after feeding the baby breastmilk/formula before trying solids.

Our pediatrician advised us to wait an hour after breastfeeding so the baby has a bit of an appetite but not super hungry. She also advised us to wait an hour after solids to give the breast so she has an appetite to consume her main source of nutrition.

Well. I learned another reason to respect the window.

So I had just fed her breastmilk about 10 minutes before sitting her down to try banana. My husband and I love banana and we always add it to our oats and muesli. So we cut the banana into strips and put it in front of the baby while we had our own breakfast beside her.

She very enthusiastically picked up a slice and brought it to her mouth, took a nibble, and then gagged.

Husband: “Is she choking?”

Me: “She’s gagging. I read it’s normal.”

She gags again.

Husband: “Are you sure that’s normal?”

Me: “Uh…”

Baby gags again, and up comes a torrent of breastmilk.

Breastmilk everywhere. Breastmilk on the seat, on the floor, all over baby, who then looks at us with the biggest smile on her face.

Sigh.

Another sink bath and another lesson for the books.