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23 month old not eating and losing weight - help?

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spanishgirl · 10/12/2009 12:22

My little boy is 23 months and has started eating incredibly little over the last 2 months. He will eat everything at nursery but very little at home (apart from breakfast), I have been persevering, making sure we eat with him, doing tiny portions, lots of praise for whatever goes down (quite a lot of meal times this is literally nothing), lots of finger food. Mainly he cries, screams, throws it on the floor and then asks for more (because he really is hungry I think) and then if I offer him more we go through the same thing again. The only reliable food to go down is Weetabix, he would eat it at every meal if he could but I feel really unhappy about that. I have been trying to stay calm and tell myself that no child starves himself but he has now lost 1.5 kilos in 2 months, it really isn't my imagination that he isn't eating enough. Does any one have any ideas, is this really normal. This is really starting to get to me and I don't know what to do next.

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chuckeyegg · 10/12/2009 16:15

Has he got molars coming through, it's about the right age? My DS lived off toast then.

wb · 10/12/2009 16:52

Agree, it could well be molars (did he previously go off his food whilst teething).

Does he still have plenty of energy? At any rate, I think you should take him to a GP as a precaution. That is quite a bit of weight to have lost without knowing why.

spanishgirl · 11/12/2009 07:57

Yes, could be, he has consistently gone off food when teething, and he does only have his molars left to come so if it is teeth related it's definitely molars. We did think that at the beginning of the not eating but then wondered how long they could really take, this is 2 months now, do they take that long? Because he eats all kinds of things at nursery we did then wonder whether it was more of an independence thing.

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spanishgirl · 11/12/2009 08:00

Maybe you're right about the GP, wb, it had gone through my mind but DS is very bright and perky and if you didn't know he was losing weight you wouldn't think he had a thing wrong, so I thought they might just think I was wasting their time, but I guess that's not a reason not to go.

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chuckeyegg · 11/12/2009 09:00

No you are worried you should take him.

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