I can't take much more of mealtimes with my 16 month old DS!!!! Please offer some advice and thoughts to help me understand what's going on and help stop me getting cross with him - which happened today and I feel horribly guilty and very aware that this will only make matters worse.
For weeks now, though feels like years, he has become incredibly fussy. Foods that were firm favourites won't even pass his lips. Trouble is its not even that predictable as one day he will eat a certain food but the next day won't. So I'll prepare something and he may or may not eat it. Spoon fed and finger fed makes no difference and are equally as unpredictable. The only meal that goes reasonably well is breakfast which is usually cereal with fresh fruit in it.
He used to eat so well and so happily. He now spits out food, clamps his mouth shut and shakes his head if I offer something he doesn't want. I know he is hungry as, if I get him an alternative he is happy with, he wolfs it down. I'm not giving snacks apart from a small bowl of fruit in the afternoon.
I don't get it and I can't bear it - it really stresses me out. Please help!