LO , just turned two refuses food. Has been with me for a long time, contact has now been reduced to once a month with BM.
All she ate yesterday was cake (contact), a banana and raspberry pieces in yogurt. She was awake between two and four am, I'm assuming cos she was starving.
Today she has eaten a pouch of fruit puree and refused cereal and toast. She refuses home cooked meals and I can usually persuade her to eat one shop bought toddler meal a day. She has refused this at lunch time, and is now munching on cold sausage, also refusing beans.
What to do? Let her go hungry? I have been filling her up on milk previously but can't continue to do this. HV and SS know about the situation but are not worried. I am not worried as such only frustrated. She is a healthy weight.
She just constantly asks for cake.
Disclaimer: she does eat fruit for me, but not much savoury unless its a sausage roll or pizza.
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Panadbois · 04/07/2013 11:57
toddler foslings can be a real challenge cant they - our LO needs to control food and drink. We recently introduced him to Tomato Soup - now its all he will eat for lunch and he chugs it down like a starving waif. A couple of weeks ago, it was only yoghurt. Sometimes he will demolish carrots, other times he will not touch them. Sometimes peas, sometimes not. Always sausages. The other day he decided he liked fried egg and toast soldiers. Now he wont touch them. 
I feel like a failure
A failure in this department at least cos everything else is fine an' dandy 
Panadbois- please don't feel like a failure- children do this for their birth parents too! 
I have an incredibly fussy eater (in fact, I think he's getting worse with age, not better)... today he's eaten 1 tablespoonful of baked beans, a few pieces of dried mango, a scoop of mint choc ice cream, and 3/4 of a v small margharita pizza . All day and about a litre of water.
Oh, and he's 4.5, not 2.
Just keep offering nice, healthy food, no fuss. If she eats, great, if not, take it away without comment. Perhpas have a fruit bowl that she can reach things from if she realises she's hungry?
Mine just doesn't see food as important- playing is far more important than eating to him!
Hi i have a very fussy DD we have just recently been discharged from the dietician as she would gag and vomit at any new food we introduced! She is the same age. The dietician's advice was always put one thing you know she likes on the plate eg the sausage roll as well as whatever you are are eating. If she only eats the one thing it doesn't matter as as least she has smelt the food, maybe touched it etc. gradually she should progress to actually tasting the other things especially if she sees you enjoying them. Fresh juice is a good way to get fruit in plus ice lollies made of juice.
She also recommended that if for example you want the LO to eat broccoli then serve up a small piece every day for a few weeks, as someone else said children like familiarity.
The dietician's parting message was that it is more important to get calories in at this age for growth and development and worry about the rest later. If this comes in the form of ice cream every day then just go with it, kids are stubborn and wont eat unless they want to so its a battle they will always win. Please don't think of this as a failure, you sound like you're doing a great job
I forgot to say that if she is quite petite too then her appetite might just be naturally small, she might be better with frequent small meals so as not to get overwhelmed. Sorry if that sounds stupidly obviously, I'm sure you have already tried these tricks but just thought i would mention it in case it helps
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