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Moms - 10 month old not loving solids?
I assume it's the teething, but wanted to see if anyone else had these experiences. So, Maddy was enjoying baby food/yogurt, oatmeal and even puffs and yogurt melts up until about a week ago. She's always been bad with texture - if something is too thick or a piece of something hits the back of her throat, she gags and pukes.
Fast forward to last week - she stopped eating even purees and all she would eat was yogurt and maybe plain oatmeal, maybe. But I think the yogurt is causing her eczema and diaper rash (her diaper rash cleared up as soon as I stopped yogurt), so we're off yogurt/dairy for a few weeks to see.
She won't eat puffs, won't self-feed with pieces of food (tried bananas, peaches, bread), and won't chew on mum-mums or wagon wheels. Occasionally she'll eat frozen fruit in a mesh feeder but not much. She won't even eat her oatmeal most days right now.
I'm not worried from a nutrition standpoint because she's still nursing so I know she gets all she needs from me. But I am worried that she starts daycare next week and I was planning to wean her at 1, so my concern is that she won't be ready to get her nutrition from food if she won't eat anything!
Did anyone else struggle with solid foods like this? Ben ate everything. He had some texture issues but nothing like this. Seriously - I tried to feed Maddy some tiny pieces of peach the other day and she puked. I can't make her puke at every meal! I'm worried about daycare and what to even send if she won't eat anything!!! And how much to send in bottles/sippies for her....
All help is appreciated!
"It's not a sprint, it's a marathon." - Alex & Ani bracelet
My blog: Dodging Acorns
Re: Moms - 10 month old not loving solids?
Hi Michele -
G went through a phase like that at 10 months and I started getting super worried. I just kept offering her a couple different foods at each meal and then a week or two later she started eating like a champion.
The only other suggestion I could have is try different times and maybe try eliminating a nursing session to see if maybe she's just full from nursing?
How many times a day are you nursing? What's her feeding schedule like?
This is what G is on now:
Nurse in the early AM (like 5 am usually)
Bottle @ daycare before nap - 830 am.
10 am - Snack @ daycare - usually yogurt, cut up fruit/finger foods, sometimes a graham cracker or puffs as well.
Noonish - Food I send for her - puree or leftovers. I usually try to cover 2 foodgroups. Sometimes i send yogurt for this.
115ish - Bottle #2 before nap.
330ish - Snack - similar to AM snack, just different foods usually.
430ish - Bottle #3 or small snack.
We're trying to cut out a bottle or at least get the bottles smaller as we're working on increasing solids and getting her to take the sippy more. She's not loving bm in the sippy though - takes water like a champ. I send 3 bottles to daycare - usually 2 of them with 3.5 - 4 ounces of milk, both with nipples on. 3rd bottle has 3 ounces and she tries to give that to her in her sippy cup in small increments as she'll take it.
Oh, and I seriously almost got to the piont of calling the pedi for help and literally like overnight she changed.
Just keep offering and if she doesn't eat, nurse after you've tried to give it to her. Hopefully she'll get over it in a few days or a week and go back to eating more.
Have you tried adding spices to her foods also? Maybe she needs that.
Or G goes through phases where she wants to feed herself - so despite the messiness, I'll let her hold a spoon and kind of drop the puree on that or use two spoons and swap out with her and let her feed herself. She's gotten pretty darn good at it lately.
Lately G is on a "I'm a big girl" phase and doesn't like it when I give her small stuff to eat - if I give her a big stick and let her chew on it supervised she does great - cut up said stick into pieces and refuses it.
I feel like I've tried it all. I guess it'll just be on her time. Her current schedule is this:
6:30/7am - nurse
8:30ish - breakfast if she'll eat it
9:30ish - nurse & nap
I offer her a nursing session when she wakes but she usually doesn't want it.
11:30/12:30 - lunch (depending on when she woke up), if she'll eat it.
1-2pm - nurse, down for 2nd nap
5:30ish - dinner if she'll eat.
7:30 - nurse and bedtime
So she nurses about 4-5 times a day. She did surprise me just now when Ben was eating lunch and she took a few tiny bites of banana from me while I was holding her. So maybe we're coming out of this phase. I was thinking a piece of plain toast w/ no crust would be something she could try too.
She has a HORRIBLE gag reflex so it's so hard - I give her food and she just gags and chokes :-(
"It's not a sprint, it's a marathon." - Alex & Ani bracelet
My blog: Dodging Acorns