HELP! 9 month old not interested in food

Hi All

Well I have a very stubborn 9mth old daughter who refuses to eat anything other that custard, yogurt and fruit purees!!! She will happily open her mouth to these but when I give her vegies she will take one mouth full then refuse anymore! I have tried her with finger foods but she doesn't eat much! She had started waking in the night after sleeping through from 3 months hungry so I have been feeding her but then she won't eat anything in the morning and whinges for her bottle, I suppose my question is has anyone experienced this was it just a phase??? So fustrating considering her brother at the same age was a litte piggy and would eat anything!!!!! Do I just keep feeding her milk and trying food to in hope that she will like it??? Thanks in advance.....

Tom took agess to be interested in solids and it wasn't really until he was nearly 12 mths that he finally got it and became interested in eating. Even now though he isn't a huge eater and I have come to realise that, thats just him. He still prefers his milk (b/f).

 

Anyhow I continued to offer him food (even through I knew most of it wasn't going to get eaten). I gave him food at our mealtimes and most of the time (within reason) offered him exactly the same as what we were all eating. He refused to eat from a spoon so I made sure he could eat it with him fingers and just let him play about with it. 

He hated baby foods (with the exception of the fruit pouches) and now I actually find it really good that we skipped the baby food stage and he is now happy to eat exactly what we do (compared to my DD who was a great eater as a baby but took ages to wean off baby food).

 

be patient she will eventually get there

Have you tried mixing vege in with fruit, DD much prefers fruit to vege and will happily devour a large serving of fruit.
I made sure I stuck a couple of spoonfuls of baby muesli in with her fruit so that she was getting some sort of iron.

I also found DD likes sweet vege - pumpkin, parsnip and orange kumara and have combined them with fruit to get her to eat them.

I would suggest mixing your vege with fruit ... and offering sweety vege like kumara. Or even mixing a couple of prunes in with things like carrot and pumpkin. You can gradually aadjust the proportions of fruit/vege as your DD gets more used to the flavours and textures. My understanding is that she isn't going to get all she needs nurtitionally from just milk so important to persevere. Good luck :-)

My DD is one of those picky eaters, but from 6mths to about 12-16mths she was a good little eater, I feed her lots of organic pureed meat and vege etc, she loved banana, stewed apples etc, but then one day just stopped eating meat and vege, almost overnight, never was much of a finger food girl and not good with fruit.

Now she only eats certain foods, only fruit she eats is banana and minimal apple, only vege is potato. She is a self certified vegetarian also, but loves eggs, thank goodness.

Spoke to district nurse when she was 2 and she seemed unconcerned as DD is healthy and happy and admittedly she is still BF. She told me to stop stressing about what I couldn't get her to eat and concentrate on giving her what she wanted within reason, and slowly adding to that along the way. Some days its frustrating but you just can't push it and she is still a healthy little girl, mealtimes are just sometimes a bit challenging.