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To not want to keep feeding DD after bedtime?

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Natsku · 27/06/2016 08:43

Every single night, after she goes to bed, I hear the shout"I'm huuuuungry". She goes to bed after eating a decent supper (sandwich/toast/leftover dinner) but once she's in bed she's suddenly starving and will eat several pieces of toast/crispbread but if I give her leftover dinner or the toast she doesn't like it doesn't get eaten.

So surely she's just wanting the food because she's bored, right? So I should cut it out because it can't be healthy to eat late at night, right before sleeping, right? But she won't stop shouting and crying if I don't give her something - she can keep it up for hours. I'm at the point that I just want to say no and then ignore the screaming.

She's 5 in case that's relevant (too young to be expected to go all night without eating? Surely not?)

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Natsku · 05/07/2016 21:06

Just want to update that its going great and thanks so much for pushing me to do this. Tonight was the first night all week that she asked for food after bedtime and I'm sure that was because she didn't eat her dinner. I stayed firm and reminded her that she had a chance to eat her dinner, and had it offered again for supper (food I know she likes) and now it was too late and she off to sleep with very little fuss after that.

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