Hi guess I should have started a new thread here - so here goes.
My first time on Mumsnet. I am going spare here. My two year old sons food repertoire has never been great but is rapidly reducing to pints of (weak) squash a day and marmite or honey toast. I breast fed for 18 months but he has never accepted cows milk - not even with sugar in or milkshakes. He wont eat any fruit or vegetables voluntarily either. I have to hide it all. He also refuses to feed himself unless it is toast. He often even refuses that and just demands a drink instead. To be fair he is getting the big back molars at the moment but it only seems to bother him off and on.
He used to eat yoghurts and cheese OK so I wasnt too worried about the lack of dairy but now he is starting to refuse that too. At the moment I have to spoon feed him anything half healthy in front of the TV otherwise he clamps his mouth shut.
(My 4 year old son will eat anything and everything from kippers to artichokes - at the table - with a knife and fork. I dont know how I managed to get it so wrong with the little one when it went so well with the big one??)
My head is telling me to just give him what the rest of the family eats and if he doesnt eat it then he goes to bed hungry but my heart wont let me carry it through!
Advice/encouragement desperately required.