My 8 Month Old Only Wants Breastmilk

As long as he is getting enough breastmilk he will be fine! Keep offering foods that he likes unitl he is ready to eat again. Also, it may be that he wants to feed himself, my babies would not let me spoon fed them for very long before they wanted to feed themselves, and independece is a good thing! Try givng him easy to chew finger foods like the fruit or veggie puffs, cheerios, steamed fruits and veggies, anything that he can eat without too much chewing. And make sure to watch him really carefully adn have everything cut up really teeny to prevent choking.

No worries. My sil has 7 kids and doesn't ever start them on solids until they show an interest at the dinner table. It is usually around 9 months or 12 months. She is smaller than 120 lbs. but her babies are huge. Her 7 month old is already 19 lbs. and they are all healthy kids. The great thing about breast milk is that it changes for the babies nutritional needs so the milk is different at birth than at 8 months. If you have enough milk and don't mind it, I would just keep nursing. My sil nurses hers 2 years each and they are never sick, even at age 10 or 8. I have just followed my babies lead. Good luck!

Don't sweat it. My daughter never and I mean never ate any baby food. She always hated it. So she nursed until she was about 8 or 9 months and then she started, slowly to eat little bits of table food here and there but breast milk was still her main source of food until she was about 11 months. I would just stop giving her the baby food for a while and then try again later or try some table food in another month or two. As long as she is nursing enough and doesn't seem hungry she is fine.

C.,

No worries. Until you baby is AT LEAST a year old, your milk has absolutely everything he needs for his nutrition. Some babies don't eat well even past that age, and they do just fine! Babies that are prone to allergies will often avoid foods until they are older. Their body is protecting them from a substance that can harm them.

Often babies simply don't like baby food from a jar. If he is 8 months old, you can start him on some soft table foods. Steamed veggies and fruits, or soft fruits, small pieces of pasta, and soft-cooked meat are great for early foods. Meat is especially important at this age, because it provides a great source of iron that is absorbable by baby's body, unlike many "iron-fortified" foods like cereals. Neither of my daughters liked baby food. The first ate it for a while, then went back to the breast until she was old enough for table foods. With my second, we bypassed baby food altogether and went straight to table foods. You can also buy a babyfood mill for very little money and grind up whatever the rest of you are having for dinner. By doing this, you know what is in your baby's food, and he gets the taste and nutritional benefit of fresh foods. This is the one we have: http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Food-Mill-1-unit/dp/B00016X0GY

My youngest is 14 months, and she still goes through phases where she prefers breastmilk to food. If you are physically uncomfortable from constant nursing, you can try offering him a cup and/or snack when he asks to nurse. You can also try distracting him with some playtime or a book. If he is insistent about nursing, he probably needs to, so just go for it. Make sure he is positioned well at the breast, and use lanolin between nursing if you are getting sore. He will grow into food, in his own time.

Best of luck,
S.

I wouldn't worry too much. Something we adults forget is that when a child is full he stops eating. But we have grown up with the "clean your plate" syndrome. He may have been having a growing spurt and is not haveing it anymore. give it some time keep trying little bits and he will eat when he is ready. Please don't make the mistake of forcing him to eat. it may do the opposite you want. good luck.

I wouldn't worry about it. Solids before he's a year are just for experimenting with new textures and tastes, not for any kind of nutrition; he stills get all his nutritional needs from breastmilk. Just keep offering it to him and he'll come around when he's ready. Good luck!