I feel like i am at my wits end over ds' eating. I have tried so hard to do all the right things food wise. I breastfed him, i made all his baby purees, he ate every fruit and veg under the sun in puree form. As he got older, he expressed a preference for some fruit and veg in it's non puree form (he liked banana, mango, pear, blueberries, carrots, sweet potato, soft apples, peas, sweetcorn, brocolli). But between 18 months and now (2y 3 m) he slowly started rejecting each one of these foodstuffs. I didn't push it, just kept giving him the fruits and veg he did like. But slowly these started dwindling, until he would eat no fruit at all. I kept offering his favourites, and he would howl at the very mention of a banana.Now the only fruit he happily consumes is in smoothie form. The only vegetable he eats more than one tiny mouthful of is sweet potato. This evening we had a massive battle where i tried to get him to eat some carrot. It ended in him spitting it on the floor, him in tears, me nearly in tears. I feel like i have failed. I was never going to be one of those parents with fussy children. Clearly i am a failure.
Anyway, I have now decided that it is not a battle i can win. I will keep offering a wide variety of fruit and veg. But if he won't have it I will just say "What a shame you'll be hungry" and take it away. But is this right? Or is it copping out big time? Will this get better as he gets older or (as my mum insists) will it only get worse?