Refusing solids – does this ever end??

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Owen seems to be getting better from his brochiolitis, but his new thing now is that he won’t eat solids. As in, anything. Yesterday he maybe had 2 or 3 cookies (I know, I’m bad but I wanted to get something in him) and 3 or 4 olives all day. He did have a few bottles so I’m not worried about dehydration, but I’m worried about that fact that he just WON’T EAT! Even things that he is putting in his mouth, which are very few and far between, he’ll end up spitting them out.

What is this new thing all about?? Is this normal for a 13 month old to do this? He seems happy and normal otherwise – just won’t eat a thing. I guess it could be teeth since he only has 4 but I can’t see anything – and wouldn’t he want to eat SOMETHING?

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does he have his first molars yet? my nephew quit eating solids when his began to come in, just a thought!!!

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Kaelyn did that right around a year. She had a week or two where she just didn’t want to eat much of anything. It freaked us out, but it passed relatively quickly.

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I think its a stage they go through. Kinda like exerting their independance. I remember my other two boys doing that around 15 months or so of age. I didnt worry too much because they were previously really good eaters. I just gave them pediasure and things I knew they liked, and eventually they started eating well again.

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Hailey goes through these non-eating “episodes” on and off. We get into a groove where she eats great for a few weeks and then the next few weeks I can barely get a few bites in her. She won’t eat foods she loved the weeks before. Bizarre, that’s for sure. I’m getting used to it and I don’t worry so much anymore. He’ll definitely go back to wanting food again.

Hailey has Roseola right now (we think) and she won’t take bottles at all or much food. Today for lunch she ate some Sun Chips and 1 bite of teriyaki chicken from Subway.

I’m glad Owen is feeling better! Hailey had that last winter and it was pretty bad!

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Hi Laura, I swear Seth and Owen are really twins- Seth was doing this exact same thing earlier in the week to the point I was almost in tears because he would eat NOTHING (except cookies like you said)but was taking his bottles. Well, starting yesterday he is eating again and better than ever! I am so happy . I think it really must be a phase they go through. Hang in there and hopefully he will be eating again soon!

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Laura, Kaelyn is currently going through another stage like this right now. She is pretty much refusing everything except soy milk. Fortunately, she’s really been drinking a lot of soy milk, so we don’t have to worry about her being dehydrated, but it is really frustrating! We’re just trying to offer a wide variety of foods and not get frustrated when she refuses them and yells “all done” at us. She’s also been getting really agitated any time we try to put her in the high chair, so we’ve been having lots of picnics on the living room floor.

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Thanks guys – this definitely helps to know he’s not the only one.

He did finally eat again on Saturday when we went out to lunch. He is usually really good about going out but he was whiney – I’m sure it was because he was hungry. Pat finally gave him some of his spaghetti and he LOVED it. We were glad because it kept him quiet, but realized that it might have butter in the sauce because it was a wine-type sauce. We decided that we didn’t care and we’d chance it so we could eat, and it actually didn’t seem to bother him at all that we could tell! He also started pulling lettuce off of my salad and eating that which was weird – he liked it though. Is that an ok thing to give these little guys? He had some chicken from my salad too, so it seemed like once he got going he couldn’t stop.

I just don’t get these guys. I so wish he could talk so he could tell me what he’s thinking. I mentioned it to day care and they said that’s pretty typical with kids his age and that “he’ll eat when he’s hungry”. I guess I just have to keep that in mind – so far he hasn’t had any eating aversions or anything like that so I just have to chill out a bit I guess. Man, this stuff is tough to figure out!

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