hello. Do you have access to a speech and language therapist for your lo? Some specialise in eating issues. Our daughter was ng fed just about 100% until around 9 months old, and continued with refluxing and vomiting (still has reflux at over 2.5 years), so was never exactly keen on eating or drinking. SHe now manages without an ng alothough only just.

We ended up starving our lo to some extent (with medical supervision due to dehydration risk) by stopping some ng feeds, then stopping all daytime feeds but filling up in the evening and night, but before this we always encouraged her to try somehting orally first.

you could try different spoons (textures, colours etc), lots of different tastes, colours and smells, playing with food etc. Your lo may prefer to lick some custard off their finger rather than have a spoon anywhere near them. Also really important to eat in front of your lo, let them see it is OK to eat, maybe enlist the help of other relatives or children to eat in front of them too.

If lo even touches something to their mouth or makes any improvement then really praise and then give ng feed to they get filled up, and make sure that you don't show frustrations at them not eating in front of them - always cry and scream in another room!

hi

my daughter was born with scid 9severe combined immune difficency) and after a bone marrow tranpslant at 3months old and been on tpn for 3 months, i am trying to get her to eat oraly. But she is now nearlly 10months old she came out of hospital at 7months old and is still having her milk through her ng tube. She has developed oral aversion and i wondered if anybody had any tps on getting children to eat and sip out of a cup after so long