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My son is a very picky eater. What should I do?

He’s almost 1 year old. He only eat whole wheat bread & cheese, fried eggs. I give him Enfagrow and it makes him so much constipated, so I switch back to regular Enfamil. However, he will be 1 in 10 more days and regular Enfamil won’t be suitable at that age. Should I switch him to whole milk? I just wonder it not give him enough nutrition because he’s a very picky eater even I let him be hungry, he still doesn’t take veggies at all. I will ask his doctor at 12 months check up but I need you advices first.

At 12 months you can switch to cows milk but your doctor may advise that you keep him on follow on milk if hes not too good at feeding for the extra vitamans.

I would probably suggest to you that if your little man is eatting a diet of bread,cheese and eggs then this is the reason for his constipation not the milk.

All children are relcutant to new foods and textures, anything that is new to them but you should try and introduce more as soon as you can.

So whilst at the meal table – set him with a little of whats on your plates – so he can have a touch and feel and maybe even a taste – if he doent take it them fine dont make a fuss try again at the next meal time and eventually he will get the idea.

try nice things that he can eat – different types of yogurt – yoplait are nice. Pieces of friut – banana and apples – strawberrys in sections with a little tub of chocolate to dip in.

Wth veggies – try and get him used to the taste by buying sweet tinned carrots and baby boiled potatoes. mash potatoes with a load of milk a bit of butter and whipped until its creamy, you can add some beans to this or carrots and hide a whole multitude of veg in once hes used to it.

A lot of parents worry about feeding but you need to reax and just go with the flow – if you introduce new foods he might only like 1 or 2 out of 10 given to him but little by little you’ll grow his confidence and he’ll experiment by himself

Good Luck xx

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