I posted in bad days about me taking Connor off solids for a week and starting over. It seems like every solid I've tried makes him miserable and irritable. He doesn't seem more gassy or have loose poops he just gets very whiney and cries all the time. For the past two days, he has been a different child. (hope it lasts:D) Any ideas on why solids don't agree with him? This really worries me as he can't live on Neocate forever.

I hope he is better soon!

He's young still,though so maybe his little system just needs a bit longer to adjust to all of those things?

WHATEVER YOU DO, do not ignore these symtoms. Noah cannot handle solids at all at eleven months, and his symptoms were very similar to Connor's. At that age, he should be able to handle things like applesauce, squash, sweet potatoes, and green beans. Can he take any of these?

Don't panic, though. Noah's allergist/immunologist and GI both say that Noah can stay on Alimentum until we figure this out and have him taking in more calories from actual food. This will at least keep him gaining and growing, and I'm sure Connor's doctors will accomodate to him as well.

Kim, I hear your pain! Emma is 8 months and can only tolerate oatmeal, applesauce, pears and bannanas. For some unbeknownest (sp?!) reason, she cannot tolerate veggies. I tried the smallest amount of squash yesterday and she had a terrible afternoon and evening. Fussy and crying. We have done sweet potatoes, green beans, peas etc., and they all do the same thing. I told my husband that she will be eating oatmeal with breastmilk when she goes to kindgergarten:-D !! My ped says "her tummy is just not ready for them yet, don't worry". I think I will push more by nine months if she is doing the same. Good luck!:thumbrig:

Maggie, I thought he could handle applesauce so that was what I had been mostly giving him,but after taking him off of everything he has been a different child. I'm thinking that the applesauce upsets him too. We started sweet potatoes but I was mixing with applesauce because that was the only way he would take them so I'm not sure if they upset his tummy or not. I wish I didn't have to put him back on solids for a while, he's doing so well and I'm really enjoying him.

I'm not sure what foods would be tolerable or what is causing him to react. Is there a common ingredient in all of the foods you've tried? Maybe it's a reaction to something.

I'm just guessing here. How about trying to make your own baby food and see how he does. Maybe some cooked sweet potato mashed up and some Neocate added to it to make it smoother.

Let us know how it goes. Neocate certainly isn't cheap is it?.

what foods was he eating?

Connor doesn't need any baby food right now. If *you* know that *he* knows how to eat and swallow, then you can take a break. My doctors actually told me I can take a break until Noah is fifteen months if I would like as long as the skills are there! Now, if you're dealing with an aversion or other feeding skill issues, then they need to be addressed.

But, don't just quit on the solids. You need to know why he can't eat those basic foods. This is what we do usually. I give Noah food about once per week. (I do more now that I'm on to a new diet). That way, you have seven days to watch him get sick from it, and then get better. I really grabbed ahold of Noah's symptoms when I did this. It was hard when we were feeding him so often! Pick one food per week or four days or whatever you choose. Give good, frequent reports to his doctor about which foods don't seem to do the trick, because if they are ALL causing him to react, he could wind up in the same boat as Noah, and this is NO fun still dealing with it at eleven months. Good luck, Kim! {{{HUGS}}}

Has he been checked for emptying. Eli had major emptying issues before surgery and it really became noticable after starting solids, he had a really hard time with them. He was very irritable and uncomfortable all the time too because it wasn't emptying fast enough. It may not be the case but just wanted to mention this :wink:

Erin,k he hasn't been checked yet for empying. We may do that one coming up though. I thought though that with DGE they weren't hungry? Connor is starved at 3 hours sometimes I can get him to go 3 1/2.

Our son had severe emptying and he ate alot, he comfort fed because of reflux. He threw up alot too though so... not sure.

Maggie couldn't and still can't tolerate solids. Before she started solids I would have considered her reflux semi normal but things went down hill from there and we still aren't going up. I really feel if we would have pushed things further when she started solids we wouldn't be where we are now with her refusal of food, FTT and now getting a G-tube.

Lena, do you think I should continue trying to give him solids or give it a break for a while? They just seem to make him so miserable but I don't know if they make his Reflux worse or if they hurt his tummy.

How much are you giving him now? Maybe back off a bit and see if he gets used to it. I don't think I would stop completely though.

Hi Lena, right now he's not getting any solids (his bottles are thickened with rice cereal) He does get two baby spoonfuls of applesauce in the am with his Nexium and takes that fine but I'm not sure that's even enough to cause any kind of reaction. Do you think It could be because I wasn't thickening the stage 1 foods and he was just refluxing them up? I tried to thicken them and he didn't like the texture, even if I made them pretty thin. I know that when I give him water it just immediately comes back up so maybe the stage 1 is just too thin? I don't know this whole thing has been so frustrating to me! Thanks so much for your advice I could use as much as possible:D

Kim~ I have no advice, I just wanted to send you {{hugs}} I get so frustrated, and I am getting frustrated for you reading this.
I just wish our "gerdlings" could tell us what is up!!!!!!

I think I would mess around with different thicknesses and see what happens.
As for him not liking the texture I would just give that time for him to adjust to that funny stuff mommy's putting in his mouth!