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Beansprout30 · 01/10/2017 19:52

My 14 month old dd just has no interest in food and it's worrying me. I know the worst thing I can do is stress and I try not to show it in front of her. I offer her a variety of foods on a good day she might have a couple of nibbles on a bad day (most!) she won't touch it.

All she seems to manage is fruit and yoghurt. I've cut her milk right back to one bottle before bed, offer milk in a cup at breakfast and lunch but she's not interested unless it's in a bottle. Now I'm worried she will drop weight as I've dropped the milk.. I shouldn't go back to bottles though right?

Any advice welcome... at wits end

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mindutopia · 01/10/2017 20:31

I wouldn't withhold milk, but at her age, I would offer it as a snack between/after meals and not before. Do you sit down and eat together? Do you eat the same things? That really is key. That and just giving it time. She's still little.

Beansprout30 · 01/10/2017 20:37

She will only have milk in the bottle, should I go back to that?
Yes we always sit down and eat together, strangely enough though I have also tried leaving her to it and crack on with washing up etc with sly glances over the shoulder and sometimes she eats better like that!

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Coconut0il · 01/10/2017 21:20

DS2 is just over 2 and doesn't seem to eat much. He is still bf in the morning and before bed. He eats a little breakfast, almost no lunch and it varies between him eating all/not eating any of his tea. I try not to worry as I think he'll eat if he's hungry and he always has plenty of energy for running round.

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