https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 27 May 2026 06:40:04 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/8-month-old-refusing-food#post-27601 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:32:39 +0000 mrs. wagon 27601@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You could try numbing his gums with ice or something cold first (popsicle?), he will be more likely to eat then. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/8-month-old-refusing-food#post-27598 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:22:52 +0000 mrstilly 27598@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>He's definitely teething. I didn't know that it would affect his eating this much.<br /> His top incisors are coming in (one poked through 4-5 days ago and the other is going to in about 1-2 days) and his top front teeth are right behind them... maybe in the next 2 weeks.<br /> I'm glad it isn't something I'm doing wrong. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/8-month-old-refusing-food#post-27515 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:35:10 +0000 venice4504 27515@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first thought was teething too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/8-month-old-refusing-food#post-27505 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:02:58 +0000 cyneswith 27505@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No chance it's due to teething, is it? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/8-month-old-refusing-food#post-27497 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:34:58 +0000 mrstilly 27497@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 8 months old. He's been eating pureed baby food since he was 6 months old. He started on a little bit and ate everything we fed him - now he eats up to 8 oz at a time (lunch and dinner). Daycare has a food grinder/masher and puts whatever fruits and veggies that the other kids are eating through it. She'll add in applesauce or bananas to whatever is being served. At home I feed him Earth's Best purees. He hasn't seemed ready for anything too chunky yet, and still pushes cheerios and puffs right back out of his mouth.<br /> DS has always gotten fussy now and then while eating, usually at night time, but lately he has been refusing to eat more than 2-3 oz and just cries and turns his head to the side.<br /> Anyone else go through this? I'm not sure if it's too late for him to want to eat (usually around 6:30 or 7:00 and he goes to bed between 8 and 8:30). He usually will refuse veggies, so I try those first when his patience is the highest then switch to fruit. But the last week he's been refusing it all.<br /> Any suggestions? </p>