teething and solids (or lack thereof)

[Tattooed Hand]

My 14 month old's molars are coming in, all four at the same time. We've noticed a sharp decrease in her solids intake over the last couple of weeks. Foods that she would normally love she refuses to touch and it's hit or miss how much she will eat. Tonight she ate 3 rye crackers and some blueberries for dinner and refused to touch the butternut 3-bean chili she usually loves, even refused the individual beans. She started eating foods for real around 10/11 months and would eat everything. So is this common to be reluctant to eat/picky around major teething episodes? Or is it something else?

I ask because she's also grown resistent to us feeding her certain things with a spoon (mostly we give her table food, but stuff like soup and buckwheat/quinoa/amaranth cereal we give her spoonfuls of). Could it be a presentation issue?

She also has food intolerances that she is slowly growing out of, but she's always had those and we've never had them as under control as we do now.

Should I worry?

I need her to eat some food because she refuses to drink BM from a bottle and goes to a family daycare for 5 hours every morning. So she usually eats food in the mornings.

[flavorfull1]

DS, 13 mo, is teething two molars and doing this.  He was eating great and now he just refuses.  I have noticed that his nursing seems to have picked up a little bit.  I am just trying to keep him comfortable, nursing a lot, and offering foods lots of times.  I do stay at home so I don't have to worry about the 5 hours without eating....but he does that anyway right now.  It seems to be teething related for him.

[flightgoddess]

Let her control the spoon! It will be messy at first, but good for her independance. Try some cold foods, my lil guy loved frozen yogurt or sorbet when he was teething. You could even semi-freeze some applesauce or those fruit purees in a pouch (like plum tots), so they are like slushies.

[Tattooed Hand]

My DD also has multiple food intolerances, so her diet is pretty limited anyway. We've given her frozen blueberries, but she even rejects those alot of the time. I think she just doesn't want anything in her mouth. Oh well. At least she seems to still be eating reasonably well at daycare and that's all I really care about. I just was surprised that my normally good eater was all of a sudden refusing to eat much, which is also coinciding with her running around alot and leaning out.

[beebalmmama]

My ds 14.5 months has been doing this too for about a month or so now. One molar has finally broken through part of the way.

He's been eating a lot of blueberries (not frozen) The frozen ones might be too hard on her gums?

He has been eating a lot of yogurt, applesauce, and smoothies (in a bowl with a spoon). The smoothies are a mess because they're pretty runny but he's determined to eat it with a spoon. I think he likes all of the above because they are cold.

He's also been picky about some of his previous favorites; beans, bananas, crackers, Morning O's (cheerios).

Yeah as long as she's eating something while at dacare I wouldn't worry.