lex completly refuses solid foods, she use to love apples, sweet potatos, and avocodo, now she wont touch ANYTHING, not even cherrios. and shes on the boob more then ever now! ive even tryed baby cerial mixed with ebm, and tryed mixing the food with ebm, nothing is working. it would be nice for her to eat at least 1 "meal" a day. shes almost 9 months old
Just keep offering her as much healthy variety as you can. Eventually, she will start eating again. I'm sure it can be frustrating if your baby quits solids for a while, but at least she's bfing and thats all she really needs right now to ensure good nutrition. She'll get back into eating solids again when she is ready.
I would suggest not offering any for a day or two then offer again. Babies don't have a nutritional need for ANY solids before a year. She also may be teething, about to get sick, or going through a growth spurt. Maddox didn't eat solids regularly (like everyday) until he was 12 months old.
spikey,
Kids are weird, what can you do? They go through all kinds of different phases, but it is probably especially irritating because you are BFing (awesome job with keeping it up for so long BTW, I could never have done it!) I would suggest that you just keep trying with the solids, and she'll eventually change her mood. BTW: I think Thompson, CT is really close to Stratford, where my husband grew up, is that right? Take care!
- Susie
21 year old mom to Melinda (5) and Margaret (5 months)
stratford is like 2 hours away, you might be thinking of thomaston, i think thats closer...
thanks for the advice, im gonna wait a few days before trying to get her to eat some more
Chloe was pretty much on the boob until she was a year old (she's still on the boob, but actually shows an interest in solids more) and though I wished I could get a break.. I didn't. I'd do what the other mamas said and wait a couple days (and not push them on her) but even if she refuses longer there's nothing wrong with her, mama milk is just so good :D