Rejecting food at 10 months

[curly173]

Need Help!
Up until 3 days ago, I had a healthy boy eating EVERYTHING I put in his bowl. Broccoli, cauli you name it, he had it. Since completely weening him at the beginning of the week, he has completely rejected nearly all foods.
The only thing he is eating currently is his oats in the morning with some pureed fruit, a small piece of toast. All basic foods are being rejected no matter what the consistency. He will accept a small yoghurt but not really with much interest (previous to this it was hard to keep it away from him), some banana and not really much else. We are coming into day 3 of minimal eating and whilst it hasn't disrupted his night sleeps much yet, his day sleeps are going back to the old habits of 30 minute blocks, which I thought we had finally passed.
Help as its now the weekend and there aren't many GP's in our area that are open. There are no visible signs of teething and his temperament is still generally good and playful and there is no temperature to indicate sickness.
Marie

[Lulu]

I wouldn't worry about the GP, he isn't sick

Maybe he would like to try whatever mum and dad are eating, maybe he might like to feed himself, maybe try some other completely different food - but with minimal stressing from you (cos that's where the fun starts!)

I know lots of little ones that refuse to eat unless they can feed themselves

[curly173]

Thanks Lulu
Interestingly, he has been self feeding toast for a few weeks now, which has been fun, and small bits of banana and sugar free biscuits, but all of that seems to be done with minimal interest.
I have tried to give him a spoon to see if this was the case, but all he did was drop it to the floor.
Ive managed to concoct Polenta (for the fill factor) with a bit of brown sugar and apple and for the moment that seems to have been taken with a reasonable amount of interest. However Ive run out of ideas of what else to give. It seems he is only interested in foods that are kind of runny and sweet. Im hoping it will pass and we return the land of lumpy food soon.

[MantaRay]

Hun, it's normal for them to have a few days when they are off their food. A few days can even last a bit longer I wouldn't worry too much (although I know that's hard). Lulu has given you the best advice - stay calm. As soon as your little one figures out how much you want him to eat, life is going to get a lot harder The best thing that worked for me was to just put food in front of him and act like I don't care if he eats it or not. After a while it worked a treat.

[Georgi]

You said you have just weaned him??? I am in the process of weaning & have found he's not eating as much as he's having alot more milk cause it's coming from the bottle. Perhaps he's drinking more milk than he use to when you were BF. If this is the case, it'll probably take a few weeks to balance out & for him to get use to it.

[SamiH]

if he is happy & healthy - he wont let himself starve!! My 9 month old eats about 3tbspn a day and that's it! so don't stress

[curly173]

Thanks for the support. Georgie, it appears that you might be right in the re-adjustment. As I was weaning him, he was drinking heaps of milk (3 x 260ml) but as soon as I took him off the breast, we have more or less only gone down to 1 or 2 x 260, depending on the day/mood, he appears to have completely rejected a 2pm milk bottle,which apparently is not unusual for this age (?), but fusses about with the one before bed. Unfortunately he still doesn't accept any water, but he doesn't appear dehydrated in anyway and there is plenty of heavy nappies, but I persist. As for the food - its a work in progress, I feel like I've digressed to when we first gave him solids with mainly pureed fruits as the food of choice. He will accept that readily. Yesterday he accepted potatoes and fish ( fish which he has not accepted before!) but only if I was hand feeding him as he played. If I tried to give it via his spoon, it was just not on. But as it came to dinner time, the same meal was not really accepted. We ended up giving bits of banana (hand fed of course) and yoghurt. At this stage he is sleeping through the night, but he is waking more often but able to put himself back to sleep. Today I will be attempting to give vegetables in pieces and see how I go with that.
Into the kitchen I go.!
By the way, thanks for the feedback, it has all given me some perspective and ideas.