Ollie is 12 mths, self-weaned himself off breastmilk 3 weeks ago and will only take bottle now. He has never showen much interest in food, finger foods are fun for him but he doesnt eat much at all, 15mins in a highchair and hes had enough, and will not accept food from a spoon- even if he has 1 himself. DS1 was munching his way through my cupboards by this age, eating almost anything he could get his hands on.
The rest of the family is starting to put pressure on me about Ollie not eating (as if Im trying to starve him or something).
He has 4 teeth, loves his milk but only takes 150-180mls at a time I realise he has a small tummy. I feed him about half an hour before a bottle is due, otherwise he wont eat anything ever!
If we lived in a decent country I could go to family clinic and get help- but they have nothing like that here and keep trying to give us medicine to make his appetite grow- there is nothing wrong with his appetite that we can see.
He is healthy and happy, a busy little boy, but he is small for his age- people think hes a girl alot. He was induced 10days early, so I keep allowing for that but Im at the end of my tether. I want him to eat and get chubby and enjoy food.
Has anybody elses baby been like this? any suggestions?
We have a range of spoons, sizes, colors, textures, materials, but doesnt matter what spoon it is he doesnt want it. But he does enjoy waving them around and throwing them around the room LOL
Maybe you could get a few coloured spoons (we have those Heinz ones, but they're probably a bit small for 12mo) and instead of jumping straight in there with the food, let him play with it and chew on it for a bit first. Then give him hid finger food and the spoon at the same time. And then put some food (like porridge or something?) on the spoon and let him play with it...? Then try feeding.
We had a lot of trouble getting Flynn to eat in his high chair. What we are doing at the moment (which is still working after a week or 2!!!) is having him sit on a booster seat at the table with us. I agree with the big boy statement. I think that was Flynn's beef! He has a spoon and holds it in one hand while shoveling food with the other. It is quite messy but we have a plastic drop cloth underneath him and a towel on the table for easier clean up!
It may aslo be that he just has a small appetite. Try not to worry too much, if he is happy and active and learning new things etc I wouldn't be too worried. If he seems sickly and is not progressing/developing well then be worried.
Hope this helped
DS really loved forks, trying to stab the food with a fork (mostly failing at first but he got really good at it) but to start with we would have two forks going. Put food on Fork 1, give to DS so he can put food in mouth. Put food on Fork 2 - swap with DS. And so on.
We still kept the spoon around for yoghurt but we didn't really come back to spoons until he was nearly 2. He's excellent with a spoon now...he finally worked out that it was more efficient for some foods. Previously we would have to put the peas and corn on the tines of the fork!
Why wont he take a spoon?!
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