10-Month Old Refuses Solids

Just a quick thought--if she's teething, she may not want anything near her mouth. Check her gums and if she's getting new teeth, try some Tylenol 1/2 an hour before offering her something cool and soothing. Maybe yogurt?

Seriously, you cannot coerce a 10 month old. Teeth may be the issue..Try making yogurt popsicles, offer frozen bagels, or even shaving a frozen banana with a veggie peeler. I know you are tired....but hang in there. This too shall pass!

I nursed my daughter until she was 27 months--and she was not very interested in food until she was weaned. I mean, she would eat some--but her appetite picked up REALLY dramatically after we weaned. You might try cutting back on bottles and seeing if that helps. Good Luck--it is tough!

My daughter did the same thing. Her doctor told me to cut back on the breast milk...Replace some of the breast milk with food that has calcium,iron and protien in it. Also, you may want to stop giving her breast milk at night and replacing it with bananas and rice cereal. Making baby cereal up with fresh juice or fruit would get my daughter to eat a full meal before bed.

Hi T.,
My daughter totally stopped eating baby food around 10 months also. She only wanted what we were eating and she wanted us to sit at the table and eat with her - - we had always tried to feed her at a "reasonable" time and then we would eat after she went to bed... Once we started sitting down for a family meal and she saw that she was eating what was on our plates, then she ate much better.

My 7 1/2 month old daughter just went thru the same thing. She didn't want to eat anything for 3 weeks. She cut two teeth and now she is back to her normal eating patterns. I just continued to nurse her. She did nurse a little more than usual. Good luck! I wouldn't try so hard to get her to eat, just offer it to her and let her decide if she wants to eat. She is getting plenty of nutrition with the amount of milk she is drinking.