My DS has turned fussy!

My DS has generally been a good eater, he used to eat pretty much anything that we gave him. But over the past few weeks he has decided that he doesn't want to eat any fruit and sometimes have no dinner as well. He used to eat lots of different fruits like grapes, blueberries, apple, banana, now he might eat one grape and thats it.

I have always given him pieces of fruit to eat (used to sometimes give him puree when he was first starting on solids) and I do a mixture of finger fiids for tea or I spoon fed him mince mixture etc. Some nights he has just refused to eat tea but if I give him yoghurt, he will gobble that up.

I have recently started weaning him onto cows milk (started this just before Xmas) and he is now down to 1 BF a day (in the morning, he has just cut out the BF before bed over the past week). Could this be something to do with it? I just worry that he is not getting enough variety and nutrition. He loves weetbix, bread, raisins and yoghurt. If i gave him a wine biscuit or something like that he will eat it but not the fruit. He has only had sweet things occasionally like when at a birthday party etc but I do try to limit the sweet things at home.

Has anyone else gone through something similar? Was it just a phase? How did you go about dealing with it? I have tried sharing my piece of fruit with him but that hasn't worked either.
(Sorry for the novel!!)

We go away & my boy will not eat anything, frustrating but he'll eat when he's back home.

How about eating with him & giving him bits off your plate? Just while he's not having much.

How about making fruit muffins?

How is he on pureed fruit by itself? Or chunks? Maybe it's a texture thing?

At 12mths DS stopped eating most finger food. He ate starchy stuff and dairy food and that was about it. Since then he's going through various eating lots / eathing little phases.
My theory (atm) is offer good food and good variety and leave the rest up to him. If he doesn't eat, he goes hungry.

At some point I got into the habit of - if he doesn't eat that offer him something I know he likes (rasins/crakers/yoghurt). Then it turned out the DS was working the system when I fed him, he got fussier and fussier. Then I started 'tough love' on food (not that tough really, I'm a big softy when it comes to my boy). He's gotten better.

Just lately (16mths +) he's gotten it into his head he'll only eat food if it looks like ours. So if I cut up his meat etc he won't eat it. If I cut the fruit up, he won't eat it. I've got to give it to him whole.

Vegies are a no-go unless they're in disguise. Fitters and mince mixes are the only way he'll eat vege.

IsaacsMum wrote: Oh, and it really was me that DS was working the system for. I had to go away, and suddenly DH was feeding him, also suddenly he started eating all these things he wouldn't touch for me He's still more likely to eat fruit if I'm not around and DH is giving it to him.

hmmm, maybe I should get DH to feed him tea and on the weekends and see if he eats for him!! Seeing it is me that usually always feeds him.

Thats what I worry about, DS working out how to get what he wants. And because he has weaned off the evening BF, I give him yoghurt even if he hasn't had tea as I think at least he has had something and won't wake up hungry.
So I've been a bit soft on that front and "giving as in such". I don't know if he is too young for me to be a bit tougher and say 'that's it, if you don't eat that then you don't get anything else'.

Last night, he wouldnt eat the mince,vege pasta mixture so ended up giving him a sandwich which he eventually ate some of. We have moved our dinner time to earlier so that we are all eating together and I will give him the same food as us or food off my plate. At the mo, its not working but will keep offering and see how we go.

Ethan went through this with veges and it lasted the best part of a year!:(

Yep, hang in there.

DS goes to daycare 5 days a week. They tell me he eats veges there. Picked him up the other day, was told he had two bowls of noodles/mince/vege for lunch. I said 'and he ate the vege????? ' and they were like - yeah, he doesn't get 2nds unless he finishes his whole bowl.
Grrrr, when I give him stuff like that at home, he just eats the noodles won't touch the vege.

When DS first started eating our food as is, we would feed him our dinners but a day later. So he could have std family food at 5pm, but we didn't want to eat that early. He's a bit older now and we all eat at 5.30 -6pm.