Son is resistant to eating solid food...help.

Question

He will eat baby food but if it is too chunky spits it out.

He swallows his food and moves it around in his mouth but doesn't chew it. A recent trip to the speech therapist proved unsuccessful, as they had a new college graduate try to help him and she fell flat on her face. He is two, and I would like him to eat solid food before his third birthday...any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

what does his eating habits have to do with a speech therapist? don't mash up his foods any more he is 2 he doesn't need baby food anymore. if he doesn't want to eat it then he will go hungry he will see that you aren't budging on what he is eating and he will eat because he is hungry. and if you are eating the same thing as him it will encourage him more.

Answer 2

Offer him only solid foods.  Don't puree any of his foods.  If he doesn't eat excuse him from the table and send him to bed without eating.  He will not starve by missing a meal or two.  Also, unless there is a medical problem I don't see the need in a speech therapist.  He is only two...that's not quite old enough to recite The Gettysburg Address.

Answer 3

My youngest spent the first 2 years of his life on baby foods and formula because we had the same problem.We finally took him to a ENT doctor and had a swallow study done on him.

We found out that he has Laryngomalacia and was aspirating his food while he was eating.

Maybe you could schedule an ENT visit and see what they have to say