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16 month old refusing to eat and being very difficult

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woose · 26/01/2010 19:10

Hello
My DD (16 months) has recently been ill, she had a flu virus thing. I thought she was on the mend. However, ever since this she has been refusing to eat, she will not sit in her high chair, she keeps hitting me, pinching, throwing, getting very angry and wont let me hold her. I have just put her to bed and I feel at the end of my tether because I tried to give her tea and she refused and threw it everywhere. I took her out of the high chair and sat her on the floor in the next room screaming her head off. I went in to see her a couple of minutes later to try and calm her and she kept slamming the door on me. Then she did this really weird thing and kept falling back head first, from a standing position and banging her head on the floor. Every time I picked her up and then put her down she did this. all the time screaming. In the end I just had to put her to bed with no tea. She is asleep now, but I feel just terrible. I am wondering why she is behaving like this?

I also feel really bad for my DS who is 3 he is having to watch this and is getting ignored whilst I am trying to deal with my DD. Has this sort of thing ever happened to anyone else?

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smithy100 · 26/01/2010 21:28

Poor you. What a nightmare. I think every mum has had a day like that.
Do you think she might still be feeling a bit under the weather - how is she sleeping? It sounds like she is just really tired. I've got 2 boys 4yrs and 2yrs and I know a lot of full tantrums have been because they are tired. I wouldn't worry to much about the eating as long as she has drank water or milk. And just make sure she hasn't not got a tempreture. Little bit of calpol and lots of fluid, and see if she will have a little sleep in the day if she doesn't get a good night sleep. Even if you have to go for a drive to walk so she has a little sleep in the day.
Oh a big glass of wine for you tonight

woose · 26/01/2010 22:33

Thanks Smithy, I am sure things will be better after a good night's sleep. She is meant to be at nursery tomorrow, it will be interesting to see if she is like this with them.

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