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Baby not eating

beckajwbeckajw member
in February 2013 Moms
My baby was born February 19.  So, she is about 10.5 months old.  We started feeding her "solids" at six months.  She took to it really quickly and seemed to love to eat.  However, lately, she is refusing to eat.  I'll get her to take a bite or two and then she will refuse to eat.  The only things she is eating is cheerios.  I'm not concerned about nutrition because I know (I think) it is still practice at this point and she is getting enough from formula.  But, one year is coming quickly (I can't believe it), and I would like to get her off formula.

Any suggestions?
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Re: Baby not eating

  • djm31012djm31012 member

    DS loves to feed himself and sometimes will refuse to eat if i try to feed him with a fork/spoon. How long is "lately"? could she be fighting something off this last week or so and just not be hungry? I would keep offering the foods anyway you can....blueberries on her tray, pieces of waffle/toast...pasta...even yogurt or back to purees for a bit.

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  • ally2011ally2011 member
    My dd will often refuse things from a spoon b/c she wants to feed herself.  Maybe try some more finger foods?  I cut cup grapes, clementines and bananas.  She also likes pieces of cheese, pieces of turkey/chicken, peas, corn and these high protein waffles from Van's.  Pasta is good too.  And of course like any baby, plenty of times she will just throw stuff off her tray more than eat it :)  

    She usually will tolerate eating greek yogurt from a spoon.  And sometimes I have better luck w/ the purees if I sit w/ her on the floor or hold her.

    We are so thankful that our second daughter, Lillian Elizabeth "Lily", was born healthy and happy on February 11, 2013.  We love her to pieces.  

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  • beckajwbeckajw member
    "Lately" means the last two weeks.  

    She won't eat fruit.  If she touches something that is "wet" (for example, grapes, bananas, etc.), she either throws it on the floor or just lifts her hands in the air and avoids touching it.  It never has a chance to make it to her mouth.

    She used to eat cheese and turkey, but now they are thrown directly on the floor.

    I can't get her to eat anything off a spoon.  She sees the spoon and starts shaking her head.  I'll try sitting with her on the floor to get some purees into her.
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  • djm31012djm31012 member
    try pasta, pieces of toast or waffles, things like that. like PP said maybe sit on the floor with her and feed. Sometimes if DS takes a late nap he wakes up super cranky and freaks out in the high chair. we have a feeding seat that i put on the floor in the family room and just feed him there and for some reason he likes it better. try singing a song to go with it too??
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  • DannysmamaDannysmama member
    I was just looking up food jags myself because DS was going through a very frustrating stretch.  Have you tried feeding DD what you are eating yourself?  DS wouldn't eat any of his food, and then I'd be eating something, and he'd crawl over and reach up for it and then eat it himself.  So now, what I eat, he eats.  It means I'm eating a lot of baby friendly foods, but we're also eating as a family, which is nice in its own right.  

    DS really likes scrambled eggs eaten off *my* fork, waffles, bananas that he bites off himself, and cheese.  
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  • musicalmama5musicalmama5 member
    Since nutrition from solids isn't that big of a deal right now, maybe you should try not offering Cheerios for a while and see if she starts eating other foods.
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  • tamarar5tamarar5 member
    E has started putting food in his mouth than shoving it back out with his tongue. Annoying as heck. He will do it even with foods he really likes. I wonder if maybe it's teething related? I can see one of his incisors peaking but can't yet feel it.
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  • cinnasugarcinnasugar member
    My LO is doing the same this week but he had a stomach bug over the weekend so I think that he might not quite be back to normal.  And he's also getting a new tooth through.  So basically, no advice at all, just sympathy :)
    Mom to 3 year-old girl and 1 year-old boy
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  • beckajwbeckajw member
    Thank you everyone!  I have found that holding her does help--although it makes eating difficult for me.  

    We have been eating as a family since she was 9 months and she has been getting some of what we eat (although not everything) and some purees.  It doesn't matter what I put in front of her, she will not eat it.  Even if she watches me pick it up from my plate and put it on hers.  However, if I hold her in my lap and let her pick the food up off from my plate, she will put it in her mouth.

    This is my first baby and I get nervous about doing something like this and then getting stuck in this pattern.  I was told not to do anything with her that I wasn't willing to keep doing.  I don't want to hold her on my lap to eat forever (I know that is overly dramatic, but really I don't want to do this for even the next few months).  However, if it gets her to eat, I'm going to do it.  

    She did just get 3 new teeth.  So, maybe her eating will get better again.
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