Funny thing.... A woman came to my breastfeeding group today, second time 
mom and in the course of talking about feeding issues, mentioned that her 
first child, a boy, did not eat one single thing besides breastmilk til he was 2 
years old. They offered him everything and took him to every specialist 
imaginable. Nothing was ever turned up and one day when she was in a 
gourmet supermarket with him, he started getting agitated, insisting that she 
buy him bread and ice cream. From that day on he ate and now at 4 years 
old,he is an active, outgoing kid, who will eat a huge variety of things 
including anchovies and pickles!!!It reminded me of another story a friend of 
mine told about her little brother who didn't speak or even babble until he was 
three years old and then one night at dinner said "Pass the salt"... I am not 
writing this to discourage these parents from investigating what might be a 
serious issue, but you might also might want to mention that there are kids 
who are just not ready for solids until they are ready. I have no explanation 
for why the switch was flipped with this baby but it was and now he is a good 
eater. She says that he still needs to be reminded to eat, but that once they 
put the food in front of him and encourage him to eat he is happy to comply. I 
think that it is the prudent thing to make sure that there is no underlying 
cause of this child's behavior and it is comforting as a parent to feel that you 
are doing everything in your power to help your child, but that comfort can 
also be mixed with intermittent alarm....and remembering that there are 
outliers who are completely "normal" is important.

Kathy Lilleskov RN IBCLC 

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