Help - 10 Month Old Will NOT Eat Anything Besides Purees
I'm looking for any advice or tips please.
We delayed starting solids until DS was almost 7 months old because we thought he had food allergies and sure enough he does - Dairy, Eggs and Peanuts. We started Stage 1 purees no problem then moved onto Stage 2 purees and introduced puffs. At first he'd put a couple puffs into his mouth and eat them but after he's gagged and puked a couple times from puffs, small pieces of carrots, bananas and soft cooked chicken he won't put any "food" into his mouth at all, he sticks his tongue out right away and then freaks out. He seems interested in my food but he doesn't let us put anything in his mouth and he only plays with foods we have on his tray.
I don't want to push him but we really need to get going on foods so we can find out what he's all allergic to before his next dr appt next month for more testing. Also, I know the daycare wants him on real food at 1 yr (though he's going to be different because of the allergies anyway).
Any ideas? Right now he eats Stage 2 fruits and veggies only. I've tried 2 kinds of puffs, cheerios, bananas, carrots and chicken. He won't even try anything new now...
Re: Help - 10 Month Old Will NOT Eat Anything Besides Purees
What about trying thicker or chunky pur?es and gradually going from there?
Ex. Smush a banana so it's pur?e like, but leave chunks, feed him with a spoon until he takes unsmooshed banana from a spoon, then from the tray?
Tried that, he keeps gagging on the mushy banana and will only eat a few bites....
Just an idea but have you tried one of the mush feeders? It'll show him he can mash up the food and he'll get only small amounts at a time unlike a "big" chunk of banana.