Don't know if anyone can help or if am posting in the right place. My 13 month old DS has never been a great eater, but LOVES his bottles and would just have them all day if he could. My DH and I have tried everything to encourage good meals, lots of varied, tasty food, eating the same as us with us (point blank refused jars). Praise, ignoring all the usual blips - spitting out, playing with it, launching it across the kitchen etc. The problem now is that he has dropped steadily throught the weight centiles since birth - born on 91st and now around 10th I guess. I know genetics are a factor, me and DH both naturally bean-pole like but I dont want to have another raised eyebrow from the HV. Every now and then he eats a decent meal and I feel like we're making progress and he inevitably gets ill and it all starts again. I feel like he has been poorly with one thing after another for so long now! I've cut his milk down to encourage his food appetite and cut down on snacks but I'm getting into this circle I dont like of bowing in to snacks (those organix things or some such) to get food in him or making him sausages or fish fingers just so that he'll have a few mouthfuls. He is too young to try some encouragement methods (bribery ) and i would love him to be a foodie like we are and enjoy good grub!!! Any suggestions gratefully received.