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1 year old won't eat?

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Beautifulblue · 15/09/2018 15:08

My 14 month old daughter has majorly gone off her food. She used to be pretty good, but now the only things she will eat are avocado, sweet corn, Ella's carrot crisps, pasta & chips 🤦🏼‍♀️ She will point blank refuse any other fruit & veg. Sometimes she even gags & cries at completely non offensive foods like cucumber!! Has anyone else experienced this around this age? She used to have a really varied diet & would try anything. Is this my fault? But I don't want to allow her to go hungry so give in when she won't eat the dinner I've prepared & give her something I know she will eat. Should also mention, even the things she does eat she won't eat much of. What can I do!?

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TanteRose · 15/09/2018 15:20

It’s not your fault - she’s is testing out boundaries and seeing the ways she can get reactions from people (but NOT in a manipulative way - she’s just trying out her skills as a person!)

Just give her what she will eat with no fanfare and no reactions (as in, no particular disappointment that she won’t eat something else, or being all happy when she does try something else).
Just make it neutral - and eventually she’ll probably start eating a wider variety of food again.

Beautifulblue · 15/09/2018 15:37

Thank you @TanteRose! I keep saying I'm not gonna get stressed about it but really I am! Don't show that to her obviously... not much point anyway she doesn't understand 😂 I think there's a lot of pressure to feed a completely balanced nutritional diet at this age but it's impossible (for me anyway!)

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