[elle-M]

Hi all,

My DS is nearly 15 months and although he will eat some finger foods (mainly cut up fruit or bits of cheese), in order to make sure he gets enough I still need to puree his food. If I give him lumpy food (e.g. with whole peas or corn kernels) he spits it out and says 'yuck'. Even yoghurt with some fruit pieces in it often gets spit out. And toast just ends up all on the floor, not eaten at all.

Is this normal? Most of my friends' 15 month olds are well and truly capable of eating lightly mashed food, soft sandwiches etc.

I will keep persisting with offering different finger foods at the start of each meal, but does anyone have any tips?

[kristylee21]

Im interested in this too... my 17month dd is still a fussy eater... we offer her at every meal finger foods ( whatever we are having but cut up smaller) and it hardly gets touched. We often mash alot of the time because atleast them we know she is eating something. She is getting better and will eat a peice of fruit or part of a biscuit or something during the day, but never a full meal.

[Mexy]

Honestly, I'm not too sure, but some kids just have weird little "things" like that.

DS2 is 2 and he hates shoes. Sometimes if food gets stuck to the roof of his mouth he cracks it big time because he doesn't like the feel.

[LovenFire]

What about things like mushy rice and yoghurt - it ends up like a thick puree - or cous cous and juices from a meat/veg dish?

Would he contemplate that? From there you could try moving onto other stuff?

[*mylittleprince*]

I think the range of normal varies. By the time he was 1 DS was eating only whole foods and finger foods. Have you tried a variety of foods and textures?

How is he going weight wise? Does he have many teeth? DS got all off his teeth very early so managed to eat 'proper' food early on. In saying that he is 2y2m and won't eat 'our food' so cook what he likes each night grrr

Can you take him to a childhealth nurse to get some suggestions?

Good luck!

[KnightsofNi]

My DS was like that until he was about 14 months, except he threw up the food instead of spitting it out.

He suddenly decided that he could eat real food, and in the space golf about 2 weeks he went from eating only about 6 foods, all purred to eating a proper family diet, just cut up into vote size pieces.

[tres-chic]

You may well already be doing this but if it were me I'd just be as creative as possible in putting a range of things in front of him that aren't pureed, but are still soft...like steamed broccoli, cherry tomatoes cut up, strawberries cut up, small squares of toast with avocado on them, mango and watermelon now it's coming into season and maybe something like arrowroot biscuits that soften as he chews?

Then he can (without pressure) experiment a bit. A lot of my kids' food went on the floor too but it got them used to at least seeing and trying a lot of different things. My DD (third child) just turned one and I've just stopped giving her much pureed at all.

Important not too get too stressed about it OP but be patiently persistent.

[elle-M]

I think the range of normal varies. By the time he was 1 DS was eating only whole foods and finger foods. Have you tried a variety of foods and textures?

How is he going weight wise? Does he have many teeth? DS got all off his teeth very early so managed to eat 'proper' food early on. In saying that he is 2y2m and won't eat 'our food' so cook what he likes each night grrr

Can you take him to a childhealth nurse to get some suggestions?

Good luck!

His weight has been steady on about 45-50th percentile since birth. He's a really active boy and would rather play than eat so I have to distract him during meal times to get him to eat more. I have tried lots of different foods (soft pasta pieces, couscous, cut up sausages, lamb chops to chew on, beans, lentils, all veggies etc.).

He has been slow to get teeth so maybe that's part of the problem, he has 4 on top and just got his 4th on the bottom this week.

I'll keep persisting and speak to the child health nurse at his next check up if things haven't improved.

Thanks everyone

[elle-M]

great advice tres-chic, thank you

[Angel1977]

I think you are doing all you can, just keep trying and he'll get it eventually!

I found with my DS that when he was getting new teeth he didn't want ANYTHING to do with solid foods and would only eat soft pureed ones. So it could be a combination of just not used to it and it actually hurting his gums?

You're doing a great job though!