Sensory food aversion in infant

boymom10 · October 2013

Anyone have experience with a sensory food aversion in an infant? My 9-month-old had a pretty rough start, and now has been diagnosed with a sensory food aversion. Apparently, he's young for the diagnosis so I was wondering if there are any other mommas who could share their experience with me.

ArmyWife114 · November 2013

I highly recommend calling EI, DS gets therapy through them (for a different reason) and the services he's received through them have helped him phenomenally.

boymom10 · November 2013

sgreen13 said:

Are you working with Early Intervention? We are starting feeding therapy for my daughter b/c she is unable to handle any sort of textures.

Also, does your LO have reflux?

We are working with an occupational therapist, but it's not through Early Intervention. Is that different? He did have pretty severe reflux, but, he seems to be doing fine now without any medication.

What are you doing for feeding therapy?

kjsmith9 · November 2013

If he's working with OT, that's great - it doesn't have to be someone who specifically works for early intervention. I'm a pediatric PT and we have LOs in our clinic all the time to see the OTs

ETA: I do think it's a little young for a diagnosis like that. Some babies just don't take to food for a little while. And they don't need it til one year from a nutritional standpoint anyways.

boymom10 · November 2013

kjsmith9 said:
ETA: I do think it's a little young for a diagnosis like that. Some babies just don't take to food for a little while. And they don't need it til one year from a nutritional standpoint anyways.

He's had a pretty good number of problems from the start, and he did have another feeding issue originally. So, I think they are just trying to work on the problem before it's too severe. But, he's just not making an progress. Part of me wonders if we should just leave him alone until he turns one, and then work on it. But, then, we would have to continue formula or pediasure at that point since he refuses all solids. It's strange doing feeding therapy for a 9-month-old when my older one devoured everything in sight at this age.

boymom10 · November 2013

sgreen13 said:

Dang...hit enter too fast.

The feeding therapy through EI will also take place at daycare.

I agree with one poster that food during the first year is supposed to be fun so don't stress. However, trying to nip this in the bud is also important. I believe EI protocol is different state by state. In my state the EI assessment is free. They work with children until the age of 3.

Again, we might be the extreme. My daughter just turned 1 and is 15 pounds. To our doctors every calorie counts and everything gets analyzed.

My son was born with a heart defect and had it repaired when he was two months old. He also had a couple abdominal surgeries prior to the heart surgery. So, he spent about a month in the hospital. We had major feeding issues at that point. At almost three months old, he was still in newborn clothes.

He's definitely packed on the pounds now, but he is showing signs of an extreme aversion. Aside from his medical problems, he did have reflux and was on Prevacid. I'm guessing because of his past experience is why they want to act on it now before we start battling weight problems again. But, OT doesn't seem to be helping much. Maybe things progress slower when they are younger? Or, because they don't NEED solids?

Once your daughter starts her feeding therapy, I'd love to hear how things are progressing.

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