Son Has No Interest in Any Food Except Baby Food

Updated on April 20, 2008
S.O. asks from Blair, NE
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My son will be 11 months old the 26th. I have several friends with babies very close to the same age. Their little ones eat finger food and some soft adult food. I would not put him on adult food until his dr said it was ok of course. He was a preemie so I know that he will develop a bit slower then babies his age. He has no interest at all in feeding himself. If I give him finger food he just mashes it up. In church they give the babies old enough a gold fish cracker for communion. I don't have them give it to him because it would just be all over. We have had waitress's give him crackers and he thinks they are toys. I have tried to feed him finger foods and he spts them out. He also doesn't put toys in his mouth. He wants two things in his mouth period his bottle or baby food. If you put your finger in there to check on tooth 3,4,5 and 6 that are coming in he bites!!!! He has hated a binkie from the second he was born. How do I get this little stinker to start eating finger foods and to get interested in feeding himself?

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A.G.

answers from Pocatello on

I agree with the first response. That all babies are different. My doc always told me to try the same food for three days. All you can do is offer it too him and if after 3 days if he still doesn't like it try a new food. It's just good to try the same food for a few days so even though he isn't eating it he is getting used to having that same taste in his mouth day after day. You might also want to try foods that have similar texter to baby food. The first non baby foods that my daughter really liked was apple sauces, chicken noodle soup, mac & cheese. Don't worry too much about it yet. He is still young and he will get the hang of it.

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J.H.

answers from Billings on

Maybe try dips. Give him a little cup of yogurt and some of those graham cracker sticks and show him how to dip them. My son LOVES dipping things, and he has since he was about your sons age.

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D.K.

answers from Denver on

Have him sit with you at meals, have him watch you eat, take bites and say how yummy it is. Keep exposing him over and over, he may refuse for a while but eventually will catch on. It is probably more a texture thing now but if you don't get him used to chunkier foods now it will be harder later on, try cheerios, those yummy gerber snacks that are banana and all that. Put one in his mouth if he spits it out, just leave it there and continue trying on and off without it being a big deal.
Neither of my kids took a pacifier (THANK GOODNESS!) but transitioned fine with chunkier foods. My daughter was more aprehensive and my son wanted grown up food at 10 mos. Each child is different.

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J.O.

answers from Boise on

I wouldn't worry, some kids this age are porkers when it comes to food and others just really don't care they are fine with what they are getting, keep offering it, let him get messy...even at communion, eating isn't about nutrition at this stage, for him it is experimentation, taste, texture and looks. When he is ready he will eat.

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K.D.

answers from Denver on

I wouldn't worry too much. We had a picky eater who loved anything in the Gerber Graduates line. If you're really concerned about it, you could go to a feeding therapist for an evaluation. Some foods our therapist encouraged were Pirate Booty (like cheetos without the orange mess), wafer cookies and other crunchy things that melt fast. I'm sorry I don't remember more specifics. Also, for getting him to feel his mouth, you could give him a vibrating teether or Nuby makes a pre toothbrush that is great for chewing. Those are usually the first recommendations from the therapists we've talked to, also things you can easily due at home. We were encouraged to let our little one feed himself yogurt and similar foods with the nubby toothbrush. He loved it! It really helped branch out what he would eat. At 20 months he still likes playing with the toothbrush and teether. I will warn you though, with those two comes a lot of drool. :)

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