Food strike
Printed From: OHbaby!
Category: Have A Baby?
Forum Name: First baby? Second or more?
Forum Description: Want help? Need support? Want tips? Men and women share advice and tips in this supportive community
URL: https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=26575
Printed Date: 07 September 2025 at 1:43pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.10 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Food strike
Posted By: fire_engine
Subject: Food strike
Date Posted: 17 May 2009 at 8:08pm
|
I have a weird feeling I've posted about this before ...
Mr 10 months old has decided he doesn't need to eat and that his parents are trying to poison him. He won't be feed anything by spoon (unless it's yoghurt) and is now almost totally refusing to self feed. He will happily eat fish and chips, mandarins, bananas. He is teething an eye tooth at the moment. It's driving us insane. I'm trying to take the approach "it's just a stage" and that I shouldn't stress. I'm not running around giving him other alternatives - if he doesn't eat what's offered, that's it. At least he has a bottle so I know he's getting some nutrients. Am I on the right track? Any tips of how to get him through the stage? ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
Replies:
Posted By: Natalie_G
Date Posted: 18 May 2009 at 2:38pm
|
The only advice I have is maybe asking Plunket, they may know why he is doing that.
Sorry I couldn't be anymore helpful. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  
|
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 18 May 2009 at 2:49pm
| Daniel was a hideous feeder at times and would refuse being spoon fed. In the end all I resorted to was offering to spoon feed him, if he packed a sad he would get given a variety of finger foods and would just pick what he wanted to eat. I didn't want to fight with him over getting food into him as that just made things worse. |
Posted By: kiwikid
Date Posted: 20 May 2009 at 8:35am
|
We are having food issues too and I'm with you Fliss on not offering him a smorgasbord (sp??) of options at meal times, H is also cutting his first top tooth too I think it might be an eye tooth if that is next to the very front ones??? If he takes the food readily but spits it out I think that is from pain so I've been giving him yogurt/custard but if he tantrums and moves head away with shouting then he gets a couple of chances then its all over rover and he's cleaned up and out of the chair.
He came right today and had a good lunch but I find the easiest way to get food into him when he's like this is to share my food, so I had a banana and some toast for breakfast and he ate a fair bit of it, out of the chair standing at my knee, maybe that removes some of the stress and any negative association lurking around. Otherwise the mantra Food Is For Fun Until He's One gets me through one of these phases so as long as he has his bottle and some water during the day he can skip a few meals no harm. ------------- 
|
Posted By: fire_engine
Date Posted: 20 May 2009 at 9:14am
Nice! I hadn't thought about the pain - he's cutting his two top eye teeth (still nothing on the bottom  ).
I'll give him another week then pop along to our friendly GP - it's been a while since we were last there! I'm 99% sure it's 10 monthitis + teething given most of the July babies are doing it, but I'll just make sure! ------------- Mum to two wee boys |
kiwikid wrote: