Hi my son is 10 months old, he had a tummy bug about a week ago that only lasted 24 hours but ever since he has been refusing solid foods.
He's usually a fantastic eater and would happily empty his plate (and then start eyeballing my plate) but now the only things he will entertain is plain dry bread or baby biscotti's.
It's the same thing at every meal time. I try to offer him foods that he is used to and that he enjoys, if I offer him finger foods he just throws them onto the floor, if I try to spoon feed him and he turns his head and swats the spoon away. In the end I almost always concede and pass him either bread or a biscotti, which he will eat but not much (perhaps a quarter of a slice of bread or one biscotti) then he starts screaming to be let out of his high chair. I hate giving him them as they have no nutritional value and I'm worried I may be fostering bad eating habits but I just want to get SOMETHING into him
His canine teeth are cutting through so I have been giving him paracetamol half an hour to an hour before feeds but this has made no difference.
He is breastfed and is still having all his usual feeds plus he is now having up to 12oz of formula milk per day now as all he wants is milk and my boobs don't seem to be able to keep up.
On top of his strange new eating habits he's been miserable, he just cries for most of the day no matter what I do, he doesn't want to play with his toys, or go in his walker, or crawl around the floor, he even cries while I have hold of him!
I just don't know what to do! HELP!
He's usually a fantastic eater and would happily empty his plate (and then start eyeballing my plate) but now the only things he will entertain is plain dry bread or baby biscotti's.
It's the same thing at every meal time. I try to offer him foods that he is used to and that he enjoys, if I offer him finger foods he just throws them onto the floor, if I try to spoon feed him and he turns his head and swats the spoon away. In the end I almost always concede and pass him either bread or a biscotti, which he will eat but not much (perhaps a quarter of a slice of bread or one biscotti) then he starts screaming to be let out of his high chair. I hate giving him them as they have no nutritional value and I'm worried I may be fostering bad eating habits but I just want to get SOMETHING into him
His canine teeth are cutting through so I have been giving him paracetamol half an hour to an hour before feeds but this has made no difference.
He is breastfed and is still having all his usual feeds plus he is now having up to 12oz of formula milk per day now as all he wants is milk and my boobs don't seem to be able to keep up.
On top of his strange new eating habits he's been miserable, he just cries for most of the day no matter what I do, he doesn't want to play with his toys, or go in his walker, or crawl around the floor, he even cries while I have hold of him!
I just don't know what to do! HELP!
