Help Me Understand My 10 Month Old

He is old enough to feed himself. My 9 month old eats pretty much everything we eat. She does have teeth already so that makes it easier. Maybe you want to start giving him some cut up banana, whole milk cottage cheese, cut up cheese, rice, pasta to start. Make it high calorie foods if you are concerned about his weight. Maybe he is bored with jars.
They do go through stages where they may not eat as much. And he may be teething. As long as you still breast feed he will be fine.

my first thought was teething...he will want solids when he's ready. for now you are just introducing him to foods and breast milk is his primary diet. keep offering, but don't force feed.

He'll eat if he's hungry :) my guess is he may be teething. My youngest didn't like baby food. By 10 months he wanted finger food and whatever I was eating.

If he doesn't have any teeth he could well be teething. Does he seem well in himself? Maybe he's coming down with something.

I wouldn't force feed him, it will crate issues later I promise you.

Offer foods and if he doesn't want anything try offering him some finger foods, let him feed himself.

Don't worry about him starving himself, if he's well he won't let himself go hungry.

R. M. - Parenting Consultant & Children's Sleep Specialist

There is *absolutly* no reason in the world to force feed an infant! He is nursing. That is primary nutrition for the entire first year. Many doctor's offices use growth charts based on formula fed babies. Your breastfed baby will be leaner on those charts. Not a big deal. Leave him be as long as he is nursing like normal. Breastfed babies are very adept and telling you what they need and what they don't imho.

Hi SK, Please do not worry, especially as he is bfeeding. I would continue to offer him a variety of foods, and let him decide if he is hungry etc.

HTH Jilly

I would leave the jars now and move on to regular foods. It is very common around 9/10 months for them to become picky , especially with jars of baby food. I would now offer what you are eating but softened for him , pieces of toast with some butter is also good at this age as they can suck it a little and also learn to chew and move it around the mouth.

As frustrating as it is don't force feed , this is not the path you want to go down , a baby will not starve themselves and he is still being BF so getting calories , it is most likely that he is bored with what you are giving and is ready to move on.

Hope this helps

You've got some great advice...I just thought I would say my 10 month old has been completely rejecting purees for the past several weeks. (Maybe a month now.) He would just much rather feed himself finger foods and he does fine (though he is working on his 8th! tooth).

I agree keep nursing and offer him some soft (small bite) finger foods. I bet he will be excited about mealtime again. :)

GL!

i'm having problems with my almost 16 month old as well. he normally eats everything and doesn't give M. any problems just lately he's been fighting and doing what your baby is doing. I hope you get a lot of good feed back , i will be checking in. good luck.

My DD always hated stage 3 foods. She went straight from stage 2 to solid chunks.

I literaly just went through this with my now 11month old. All of a sudden he turned 10mos and went from 2 jars of stage 3 to like a couple bites and then sometimes none at all. He had one tooth. He now has 2 and 3 more on the way. He may be starting to teeth and he may get them all at once like my little guy. All babies are different though. Babies eat until they are full. I don't force him to eat. As long as he nurses good I don't worry. You really can't make your baby eat baby food. Just keep offering it to him. Good luck!

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I literaly just went through this with my now 11month old. All of a sudden he turned 10mos and went from 2 jars of stage 3 to like a couple bites and then sometimes none at all. He had one tooth. He now has 2 and 3 more on the way. He may be starting to teeth and he may get them all at once like my little guy. All babies are different though. Babies eat until they are full. I don't force him to eat. As long as he nurses good I don't worry. You really can't make your baby eat baby food. Just keep offering it to him. Good luck!

all the other moms had great thoughts. one more i would like to add, make sure the glands in his throat aren't swollen. if he has a sore throat it could be messing with his eating. depending on what part is sore, sucking may not aggravate it as much as eating from a spoon. plus you have the comfort factor with nursing so he may resist it less even if it does hurt a little. just a thought.