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Please help me with my 16 month old who keeps refusing food

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Katie321516 · 08/05/2021 18:20

So my baby used to be such a good Eater she'd eat anything I gave her and I made an effort cooking her all home cooked healthy meals and making sure she had a healthy diet. For the past month she's been refusing meals just some to start but now it's got to the point where she is even refusing her favourite s I'm at my wit's end I try to be patient but it winds me up so much I do try to not let it show. What I was doing was after half an hour giving her something I knew she'd eat like peanut butter or beans on toast the only things she will eat but yesterday I really couldn't take it anymore when she refused her favourite meal so I thought right if she doesn't eat I'll offer it to her an hour later if she doesn't eat it she'll go to bed hungry and hopefully she'll learn eat it or go without that's what my mum and a friend told me to do but I feel so bad doing that this is the second night now she's refused her meal can I have some advice please? Will she learn in a couple of days do you think or should I just give in and let her live off beans and toast and how can I stop getting so stressed out about it? I feel like it's effecting our bond It's so upsetting all the effort I make making her nice meals and she just puts her spoon in and and drops it in purpose or just cries at it. She would just throw the bowl on the floor which the only reason she doesn't do that anymore is because I stand there holding it.

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
00100001 · 27/05/2021 13:46

Hope your LO is OK now.

Sometimes, they're just not hungry.

Don't send her to bed hungry on purpose, she's too young to work out the connection, plusit is starting the wobbly path of using food as a reward/punishment

What has she actually eaten?

Will she take milk?

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