This is probably common, and I have tried to
Ignore it as best as I can for the last year, but my DD is a terrible eater and I don't know how to approach this anymore, it's bringing me down!
Weaning until the age of 1 went very well and DD tried and ate everything. Since then it's been very hit and miss and only getting worse of late.
She is good at breakfast and enjoys a few different cereals, but any meal after that, is an awful experience! She will rarely (once a fortnight perhaps) eat the meals that I put out for her, some of the time I give in and give her want she wants, normally peanut butter on toast, or just don't bother with the meal as I know I'll end up throwing it away! I give her what she wants sometimes, because obviously I feel that she is better off eating something rather than nothing! But I am really so upset as her diet is so limited and she won't attempt any new food!
Where do I go from here??? Do I give her what she wants because she is hungry and hope this is a phase, or should I be persisting and offering her only the meal, and under no circumstances should she have anything else if she doesn't eat it?? Even if it seems like she is desperately hungry!
Help - thanks x
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Eating habits of a 2.6yr old
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AmyLou32 · 07/09/2013 18:09
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