What does your nursery do if baby doesnt eat a meal?

[Gigi00]

DS has been at his nursery for 2 months , he is 14 months old.

Certain meals they provide him, he doesn't eat at all or little of. In this circumstance they give him 7oz of milk.

I have dropped this bottle as DS often refuses this feed. (Usually eats well at home with what i make for him)

Is it normal at this age for nurseries to provide milk instead of some snacks instead or something else to eat? Im new to this so would be keen to hear others experience from their nursery?

At what age should this stop?

Quite normal I would say. I would just be happy they did that not calling me to collect a hungre (angry) child.

Our nursery didn't have the option of snacks or a lot of different meals if the children didn't like a serving.

Speak to them. Ours are guided by the parents. Some prefer not to offer an alternative to the healthy, veg-filled food. Others prefer to offer toast or yoghurt etc rather than have a child go hungry.

I thought offering toast etc would be better than milk at his age. I may see if this is an option

Ours didn't offer anything else specifically but there were generally a few bits to lunch (eg bread / cheese / fruit. I wouldn't have expected them to make toast or anything.

Same at ours. They aren't offered anything else but if they eat say only one component of the meal - for example, say it's a roast and they only eat the potatoes - IF there's more potatoes left over at the end, they would offer them more of that. There isn't always left over food though and obviously they have to be fair to all the children too.

I don't think it's a huge problem because the meals are very regular at our nursery so even if you missed one, you wouldn't be absolutely starving by the next. They do breakfast on arrival between 8 and 9, lunch at 11.30, snack about 1.30/2pm, dinner about 3.30pm.

They would sometimes offer more formula for a non-eating child but only for under 1s I think, or that's been our experience anyway.

Yes I'd prefer the same at that age. Ask them, they may well be willing to.

Nothing is offered at ours, but the mext snack/meal is only 2hrs away so it doesn't really matter imo, the amoynt of snacks/meals they do at nurseries is crazy

I work in a nursery, we don't offer alternatives- including milk.