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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry for the cross post but I didn't know if this was considered special needs or not...

It is very possible that my infant is in the early stages of developing a feeding aversion.  He does not hate being in the high chair or cry when we try to feed him (or get him to feed himself - he plays with the food but doesn't really consume anything) and he is also interested in our plates/cups.  I know at his age - almost 7 months - food isn't a big chunk of calories, it's about learning.  However he shoes zero interest in it.  Whenever we try to feed him with a spoon, he closes his mouth.  We try to get him to open his mouth in a variety of ways, and while it works. not much gets consumed.  He has very slow weight gain and has been a bad nurser his whole life so we are adding formula in addition to pumping and trying to get him to nurse as much as possible.

My questions, i guess, are this....
1) How did you know your child had a feeding aversion?
2) what were your first steps?
3) What helped the most? 
4) where are you and your child now in this journey?

He has no other issues as far as we know (ASD/SPD) - he's met every milestone early and is generally a happy baby (other than sleep!)

Thanks for any info/advice/help![/quote]

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