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My dd has stopped eating the healthy foods apart from fruit?

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sheepgomeep · 22/12/2011 23:38

This has really stumped me as she has always ate really really well. She is dc no 4 and she is 19 months. The other 3 dc have been pretty good eaters and Ive been very fortunate that they have liked a wide range of food.

dd3 was going the same way or so I though. The last 3 months she has slowly stopped eating her meal;s and instead will only eat cheese strings, chips, weetabix, some spaghetti shapes (sometimes), the odd bit of ham, yoghurts and jelly and fruit like bananas, blueberries and raspberries, oranges. she wont touch veggies or bread or potatoes or rice

I have put lovely meals like cottage pie, fish pie, mash and beans, spag bog all stuff she used to tuck into with relish but now its met with a no and its pushed away.

Even the food she will eat, the quantity is so small like six or seven mouthfuls, sometimes less thens its pushed away and shes asking for fruit or a yoghurt.

Ive tried ignoring, I never force her and I dont care if she gets messy. Ive never hovered. She only has a bottle of milk in the morning (she will eat her breakfast though) and one in the evening and water throughout the day.

Its so odd and frustrating, she ate six chips for tea and a bowlful of blueberries and raspberries.

She has has a lot of runny noses lately and couple of colds though but nothing heavy with a temp or anything.

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SantasNutellaFairy · 22/12/2011 23:39

Fruit is very sweet though- does she have much of a sweet tooth?

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sheepgomeep · 22/12/2011 23:41

yes shes bloody terrible, The only one out of the four with a sweet tooth, her dad does though and he like all the chips and crappy processed fruit. I really dont want to go down that route with her though.

I purposely dont give her lots of biscuits and she never has sweets

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skybluepearl · 22/12/2011 23:41

don't offer her cheese strings, chips, weetabix, some spaghetti shapes at all. at the same don't nag her to eat nicer food, just enjoy spending time with her.

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sheepgomeep · 22/12/2011 23:41

*food not fruit!

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sheepgomeep · 22/12/2011 23:43

Thats the only things she will eat though, If she wont eat a meal I dont tend to replace it with something else iyswim some meals she sits there until she gets to the fruit part with the other dc

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EverybodysSnowyEyed · 22/12/2011 23:53

I have this problem with DD (17m)

she will only eat what she wants - and that tends to be fruit

She used to eat anything but is a nightmare now

like your DD she will eat a few things (chips, bread, broccoli) but I really don' feel like she is eating enough

worrying!

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sheepgomeep · 22/12/2011 23:56

Its very worrying isnt it. Its quite often the quantity that worries me too.

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EverybodysSnowyEyed · 23/12/2011 00:01

Yes - my DD has bedtime milk and had been having 2 full bottles (200ml) - one randomly and one around waking up time. I'm still giving her formula because i hoped it would be more nutritious.

Anyway, I have now started giving her 50/50 with water. I'm hoping this will increase her appetite during the day. She tends to have a healthy breakfast but poor lunch and dinner.

AnxiousElephant · 23/12/2011 00:09

Why formula? Children can have cows milk from 1 year? Unless they have an intolerance or allergy. You are right that formula is high in calories and this will affect the appetite.

AnxiousElephant · 23/12/2011 00:10

1 portion is equivalent to what she could hold in her hand. 1 meal = 4 portions.

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sheepgomeep · 23/12/2011 00:12

er she has normal cows milk and has done since a year old

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EverybodysSnowyEyed · 23/12/2011 00:13

She has cows at bedtime but (lazy) we are 3 floors up from the kitchen so the packet of formula is easier than going down to fill the bottle!

She didn't wake last night so fingers crossed she won't tonight!

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sheepgomeep · 23/12/2011 00:13

I might cut down the breakfast milk though, I might try the water trick

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EverybodysSnowyEyed · 23/12/2011 00:14

sorry sheep - i think i hijacked a bit there!

EverybodysSnowyEyed · 23/12/2011 00:15

Do you think she has as many portions as Anxious suggests?

That's very interesting. I don't think my DD has half that

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sheepgomeep · 23/12/2011 00:16

oh its ok its reassuring to see someone else in the same boat.. hijack away!

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sheepgomeep · 23/12/2011 00:18

ESE no I dont think dd has 4 portions at all, more 1-2. She hardly eats at all, apart from fruit and yoghurts.

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EverybodysSnowyEyed · 23/12/2011 00:19

Does she eat better sitting down or wandering around?

We went to a party today and DD was able to wander around and then go back to her plate and she seemed to eat better. Not really something I want to encourage though!

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sheepgomeep · 23/12/2011 00:22

Well we have tried both and it makes no difference at all really, All it does is distract her and the food goes everywhere. She sits at a table with her sisters so she watches them eat, its like she has no patience to eat, She can use a spoon and refuses to eat with her fingers at all apart from the bloody fruit!

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sheepgomeep · 23/12/2011 00:22

and chips!

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toody · 23/12/2011 00:23

its a worry isn't it my ds will not eat fruit or veg, brekkie will eat rice krispie square, lunch always the same sour cream snack a jacks choc chip brioche 2 petit filous yoghurts(fruit layered) dinner eats meat in breadcrumbs he believes it is always chicken used to eat anything made from mince loved bolonese now refuses allthough managed to cajole him last time to eat most of it which i feel shows it is not a dislike but control I worry that he will not try anything new and if i should be giving him vitamins. Everyone tells me not to make a fuss which I don't and that he will gradually try more things.

EverybodysSnowyEyed · 23/12/2011 00:28

My friend (paediatrician) advises vitamins (vit D I think).

I was a terrible eater and my Mum was just told to let me eat what I wanted and I would grow out of it. I think the exact words were ' a healthy child won't starve them self'

I have grown up to be a very healthy adult!

My rational side knows it's just a phase but it doesn't stop me fretting!

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sheepgomeep · 23/12/2011 00:31

Its interesting what you say about control, Ive wondered this about dd, She will shove it away from her and cackle and then try and pull herself out the straps, climb on the table. Its like shes watching what I will do.

She started eating less around the time she started feeding herself with a spoon, dont know if theres a link there or not

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mathanxiety · 23/12/2011 00:32

None of mine would eat a thing except yogurt and bread, occasionally bananas, fried potatoes and sliced ham. Their diet was limited to say the least. All had sweet teeth. I resorted to chewy vitamins.

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sheepgomeep · 23/12/2011 00:33

oo I was a terrible eater too funnily enough, my mother used to take me to the doc no end of times. She told me once all I would eat for weeks on end was 1 potatoe, a slice of meat, spoon of peas for tea and breakfast cereal for breakfast with the odd biscuit.

I'm fine now, eat everything in sight and tons of it

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