My 9 mnth old has almost stopped wanting to eat his baby food. Why and what can I do?

Question

He has aways loved his baby food from the time he was old enough to eat it. He would eat about a jar and a half each meal. Just recently he seems not to like it so much and hardly eats any of it. Does anyone know why and are there better ideas or alternatives to still feed him healthly foods? Also he does good with some solids but I don't know what is age appropriate and I need some good ideas for this age?

Answer 1

I had that same problem...My baby is 9 months old and loved baby food..Then i noticed that she kept pushing it away and didnt want it anymore.. I figured it out. It's 1 or 2 things....She is teething really bad and has no appetite... Or your baby is ready for finger foods..Pushing away the spoon means that your baby wants to do things on his or her own. What you could try...Give your baby a spoon and continue to try to feed the baby ,or there are these little puff snacks that dissolve quickly in the baby's mouth: you can put them in front of the baby while the baby pickes them up one by one to put them in his or her mouth and after the baby stops chewing or sucking on the snack you put a spoonful of food into the baby's mouth....Any little tiny snack you can do that with.. Hope this helps and good luck

Answer 2

If you have a healthy diet, i.e not salt filled foods give him a bit of what you have. Get a handblender and it will take seconds for you to blend when cooking. What about making eating into a game and praising him when he tries something new or offer finger foods during the day. Please don't think I am patronising you and I don't know your circumstances but have you tasted those jars, BLAND!. Babies go through not eating, both my kids use to gore for a week then hardly eat anything for a week. Why not ring your health visitor, its things like this that they are there for!!

Answer 3

At around the same age my daughter decided she hated anything that came in a jar, so I ended up maing my own baby foods. Whatever we ate that night, I would throw into my little food processor and use low sodium chicken broth to blend it. She liked that alot more. You can give him practically anything by that age, as long as the pieces are very small.
My daughter loved soft cheese, soft fresh fruit, and scrambled eggs at that age.

Answer 4

only save attempting. My toddler took a month to start up taking Rice. i attempted mixing it with bananas and that i additionally offered flavored rice cereal. that did no longer help lots however. in the experience that your toddler is used to heat milk, attempt warming the rice, in ordinary terms for some seconds however. that truly helped my toddler decide to consume it. She eats it room temp now however. be certain you stick your finger in it to attempt the temp until now feeding the toddler however. It shouldn't take yet approximately 4 or 5 seconds, perhaps much less reckoning on the amt of nutrition. in case you get it too heat, only wait a min or with the objective to allow it cool and examine out the temp lower back.