Hi, I desperately need some advice about my 2 year old daughter. My Husband and I are having great difficulty with her eating habits. It started when she was 6 months old, she never wanted to be weaned off of milk and we had great difficulty getting her on to solids. The problem is now that she seems to be scared of food. All she ever wants is toast or crumpets and if we give her anything else she gets herself into a complete state, crying and trying to run away. We have tried her with all kinds of food from baby puree to finger foods but with no success. We have got her to help cook which she loves but when it comes to eating it she wont. She hates getting food on her clothes or her hands and panics if she is 'mucky'. I put some mash potato on her lips today and she actually vomited. She then stripped her clothes off and is going mad with a baby wipe trying to get every last bit of mash potato off of her. I am begining to think this is a phobia. She is the same with dirt, if she gets mucky at the park we have to come home because she starts panicking. She is not underweight but she is borderline. Her bowels have suffered too and she was placed in hospital with sever constipation before Xmas. I have asked my health visitor for advice but I haven't got anywhere.
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