I need to get my 6-month-old back on solids after sickness I need advice how to get back on track after my 6-month-old son has been ill with sickness and diarrhoea for over two weeks. He’s been feeding like a young baby with high fluid intake and totally off solids. He has taken a few spoons of food today, so that’s a good sign, but my health visitor says I should try changing my routine, with milk at 7am, breakfast at 10am, milk at 1pm, then food in the late afternoon. I really don’t want to do this, as Morgan was so happy with Gina’s plan, but I want to…

Since illness, I’ve had to go back to the beginning of weaning with mixed success I started weaning Elliot at 5 months, following the Contented Little Baby Book of Weaning. Then, when he was six months old and just after introducing protein at lunch, both Elliot and I suffered with on-going colds, flu, tummy bugs etc. I was too unwell to prepare many different meals for him and introduced organic commercial jars of food instead. When I tried to introduce home-cooked meals again I was met with refusal, tears and tantrums so kept up with the jars. Over the last couple of weeks, we have had more tantrums at mealtimes…

7-month-old Edward has gone from a fantastic eater to a food refuser Please help! Edward is seven months old and has been fantastic for ages, we went on holiday and roughly four days after we came back he has been waking several times a night. His schedule is breakfast of one weetabix with fruit puree and buttered toast fingers at 7.30am and 9oz of milk between 8 and 8.30am; lunch at 12pm of chicken, potato and carrot mixed with fruit puree, 3-4 mild cheese slices and a petit filous with a 2oz drink of well-diluted ribena. He’ll have 8oz of formula at about 3.30pm. His supper at around 5.30pm is…

Since having a cold my daughter of almost 7 months is refusing most solids I started weaning Olivia at about 41/2 months, strictly following the CLB Book of Weaning. She took solids with no problems and seemed happy on them. About 4 weeks ago she got a slight cold. Since then she refuses to take her solids and is only happy with milk and water. Sometimes she will eat solids (rice cereal and pureed apple or pear) at the 6pm feed. We were at the end of the first stage of weaning when she got the cold. Olivia is now almost 7 months and weighs 8kg. She has 4 milk…

My 8 month daughter is uninterested in eating breakfast My daughter has recently started to refuse breakfast following her breastfeed in the morning. I now only feed her from one side in the hope she will have more of an appetite for her cereal, but this does not seemed to have worked. She is offered Weetabix and half a banana followed by finger food such as toast or a rice cake, but she isn’t interested. Despite her small breakfast she manages to wait until 11.45 for lunch. She eats a protein meal, followed by fruit or yoghurt and has dinner at 5pm with another meal followed by fruit or yoghurt.…

How can I get my daughter of almost 8 months to take any solid food? I tried to introduce solids at 5.5 months and things went well for a few days. Then she became ill with rotavirus and the doctor told me to stop weaning until the sickness and diarrhoea cleared up. This took just over 4 weeks. I tried to start weaning again when she was better but now she just clamps her mouth shut and refuses to eat anything. I have tried all sorts of foods, but when I manage to get any food in her mouth she just gags and refuses even more vigorously. I have tried…

Jenna of 6.5 months is beginning to lose interest in her solids I have started to follow the weaning plan for my second daughter, having had success with it for my first. I began to wean Jenna at 5 months. The first month went really well. She ate a wide range of vegetables and by 6 months was accepting lentils and chicken. However, over the last two weeks she has started to refuse solids. At first it was just lunch and I thought the cause could be tiredness. I moved lunch from 11.30am to 11am but it has made no difference. She screams at the first sight of a spoon.…

At almost 8 months my daughter is refusing nearly all her solid food Olivia is refusing 95% of her solids. I have tried: self-feeding, spreading veggies on bread fingers, veggie fingers and offering a few ozs of milk then her solids. I have tried to give her a few ozs of milk before solids, but she just grizzles until she gets her bottle (usually after 30-60 minutes of getting her to eat). She has been “teething” for a few months now and I am wondering if that could be the reason, but it could still be months before her first tooth appears. Olivia does not seem to be hungry between…

At 7 months my son refuses all solid food and is hungry at night Samuel is a happy baby and has always eaten well until two weeks ago. Now he refuses everything offered to him regardless of what it is. I have tried finger foods and he just throws them on the floor. I have given him a spoon to hold whilst I feed him; it makes no difference, he just won’t open his mouth. I have tried tricking him by offering water which he will always take and getting a spoon in as he opens his mouth, but he is wise to this now. He is having three milk…

At 8-months-old my son gags and chokes on finger foods and lumps My son will not eat food with lumps of any size nor will he eat finger foods. When this is tried, he gags and coughs until he violently throws up what would appear to be his feed and any previous feeds. As soon as he feels something of a slight lump on his tongue he starts to gag. I have tried banana in very small pieces, yogurt with small bits, cheese strings, bread and toast with the same result of gagging and making himself violently sick. He has mild reflux and has just been prescribed Ranitidine and Domperidone…