DS HAS GOT HIS APPETITE BACK!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!

[ladylissie]

ds is 22m and for the last 3m has refused to eat meals, and will only eat cheese, fruit and hot cross buns.

well, ive persevered and cooked him vegetables, mashed potato and fish fingers, and HES EATEN IT!!!!!!!!

soooooooo relieved,

Yay! Well done. Just shows perseverance is the way to go. Must have been nut-driving having him refuse stuff, I say a huge well done to you for keeping on!

I must start to persevere and serve up food that she just never eats so that she eventually will, but it issoul destroying and I worry that I wont be able to cope with her behaviour or get her to bed when she hasn't had anything to eat

she's 22 months

tbh, ive been cooking so many meals a day and just caving in and giving him what he wants. but before this he would eat anything at all!! im so proud of myself for sticking at it and assuming he was a picky eater like my lil bro (no veg or fruit)

TR how long has she been like this?

about 4 months I would say

sounds like ds! i think at this stage they push us as far as they can, just to see.

well done honey

pmsl thank you, thank you all!

I am taking heart from this thread. My DS 20 months will only eat toast, cereal, fruit, yoghurt and fishfingers. Driving me INSANE. SHould I just refuse to give him anything else if he refuses a meal or should I let him have fruit and yoghurt (which is what he has been ho,ding out for)?

what i did was let him have his cheese and fruit. didnt even comment on his lack of normal food. but each day cooked him a meal when we had ours. i think in ds's case he was doing it for attention and to see how far he could push me. but i stopped him having snacks during the day. he used to have breakfastat 7, a snack at 10.30, lunch at 12.30, another snack at 3 then dinner with us. so i bought his lunch/dinner-time forward iykwim