DD has always been at the pickier end of baby eaters (eg never drank milk, so bf til she was 1 and then just fed her yoghurt), but has eaten a reasonable range of nice home-made food, plenty of fruit, bread, cheese, chicken etc. But as of a month ago she just stopped. She won't eat a 'main meal', ever. Not just occasionally - never. She will pick at fruit as snacks, but that's about it. Cheese, yoghurt, bread and meat have all gone out of the window. I don't bribe with snacks, I keep going with offering tasty savoury food - some for her to feed herself with a spoon, some as finger food so they're less frustrating. I've read every book I can and tried everything - different locations, utensils, with other toddler company, eating the same thing alongside her. Nothing works.
Now I'm beginning to get desperate. She was on the 25th centile until she was 12 months old, she had dropped to the 9th when the hunger strike started, now she's on the 4th and falling. My HV is a nightmare and holds clinics only when I am at work so the last thing I want to do is pitch up there to get DD weighed and get lectured.
Please can anyone help? Advice? Or just encouragement? Everyone else out there talks about hunger strikes, but what they actually mean is picky eating and stroppy attitudes from their toddler. I mean NOT eating at all except for maybe 3 or 4 mouthfuls of fruit in a whole day.