As a bit of background, we started DS with a little bit of baby rice at about 5.5 months, he became quite interested in that and would also eat pears and sweet potato. We weren't giving it to him regularly though, just as tastes. 2 weeks back we went on holiday to France, and he suddenly became really interested in the whole process,sitting in the highchair, grabbing the spoon and shoving it in his mouth, eating melon, banana, and butternut squash.
Now, he has completely gone off the whole thing. It was literally an overnight change. He had a bad weekend last weekend where we are really not sure if he was teething (no teeth yet anyway) or had a virus (no temp or ear infection according to the doc). Now, he turns his head away from the spoon, and if we keep trying gently, he cries.
We wait 30-45 mins after a bottle (he drinks about 31-34oz a day, on 4EASY, sleeps about 3 hours in the day and 10-11 at night).
Even if we sit him in the highchair or on our lap when he's totally happy, as soon as the food comes anywhere near him, or the spoon, he isn't happy! He will mush the food around on his hands but unlike everything else he picks up, he won't put it in his mouth!
He's 7 months this week. Should I just compltely stop for a week and then try again, or should we persevere?
If I stop, should we start from the complete beginning with just baby rice?
He has eaten a teeny bit of baby rice, some banana and some greek yoghurt (!) in the last few days, but nothing else, even the pear and sweet potato he used to like. I'm not worried about him not eating, given his milk intake, I just don't want to keep going if I'm going to put him off eating by doing so.
