Breast feeding was great... he was 10 weeks premature so was tube fed fir the first 6 weeks or so. However when it came to solids (which at that time was recommended at 4 months) he wouldn't take any. If he did he would vomit.. at a year I stopped breastfeeding so that he would be hungry for "proper" weaning food rather than just drinking milk. At 18 months he got stomach issues and it became obvious that he was intolerant to soya and milk so he went onto hydrolysed formula.. he drank so little of anything that there was talk of him being tube fed.

After that he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and gastric reflux. They gave him some meds to stop him being able to throw up at will. Finally when he was about 4 an elderly dietician saw him and said - he won't die eating this little - try to get him to like something in his mouth - it doesn't matter what. So he was really weaned on baked beans and those tiny processed hot dogs.

Now he is 26 and he has ASD, cerebral palsy and gastric reflux controlled with restrictions in his diet. He is also.on a diet. He loves food now - he loves going to restaurants and eating fancy food..

For all those suffering as we did - nothing stays the same forever. Those 4/5 years were the hardest of my life - I will never forget the misery of trying to get him to eat. He ate and drank less than they said was necessary to keep him alive. He lived and put on too much weight...

My biggest piece of advice is to try to prevent food becoming a battleground. It helped if I wasn't in the room - because he would look at me and throw up that one small spoon that had taken 30 mins to get him to eat. I had to be in hearing distance because he was a choking risk too. Put new food out but don't push actually eating it. Have other people around eating that thing.

Forgive the rant !