Need help 15 month old feeding advice

[chelsmat]

DS3 is driving me nuts! He just plain refuses almost all table food and baby food. He will eat Chinese dumplings, mac and cheese and French fries and that's it. He also refuses puréed baby food. He still nurses 8 plus times a day. I am so done nursing. I wouldn't mind if we were cutting. Ack slowly but this is getting ridiculous. If I try to refuse to nurse and offer other foods he screams and throws food. If I'm trying to do something and he wants to nurse he literally chases me around the house screaming. I am in desperate need of advice. My other kids were not like
Tbjs

[momin2013]

Hmm...I have some experience with DS being a bit of a picky eater at first, but not really with the nursing demands.

I wonder if some "tough love" might work in this situation. Like when it's meal/snack time, sit him down with a plate in front of him (to try to expand DS' likes I would put something I knew he liked, and often something "new" on the plate at the same time) and leave him to it. At this age I imagine he can self-feed o.k.? (Sorry, if I'm not remembering that right; if he still needs help with a fork/spoon obviously you'd still help with that). And if he gets mad to the point of throwing food you'd say, "o.k., I guess you're not hungry right now", and take him out of the highchair.

For chasing you around, I'd try some version of the same; sit him down in his highchair with a snack, and if he throws it he gets taken out of the chair. Rinse and repeat.

I think as long as you're giving in to his nursing demands, you're telling him that's an option at those times. If you want to cut some sessions, I'd just not make nursing an option at those times; it's a meal/snack or nothing. It sounds harsh, but I'm thinking he'll clue in eventually that if he's truly hungry he needs to eat what's put in front of him.

I'm pretty sure at that age DS was nursing first thing in the morning, mid-morning, mid-afternoon (before nap), before bed, and once MOTN.

[cabbagecabbage]

I'm sorry. I'm in the very AP side of the spectrum but it's perfectly normal for a baby that age to want to nurse that much. Each kid is so different but my first was like that and I rolled with it and nursed for almost 3 years and she's now a healthy almost kindergartener. Do you want to wean? Are you just feeling touched out and worried? They say it can take 20 times to like a food and keep trying. I always try to offer a desired food with new foods. My kid (12 month and nursing 5 times a day) likes salty food: sausage, French fries, etc. but still eats very little solid food at each meal. He's a healthy size and pees and poops and I'm not worried.

[nicolewi]

I'd just keep nursing, and meanwhile, keep giving him lots of assorted table foods to try. Don't make a big deal about eating it or not. My last baby was kind of like this but it will eventually change. Sorry...it sounds like a tough phase. My daughter loved watermelon for some reason. That was one of the first foods she got into eating. Also, all my kids liked the Gerber Puffs for baby junk food.