Nursery and not eating

[Sausagedogsandpugs]

My daughter (just turned 3) stared nursery a month ago so it’s all quite new for her. She gets dropped in at 9 (after having had breakfast at home) and collected at 3.30. During that time she eats nothing, absolutely nothing at all. No amount of cajoling or encouraging will convince her to eat anything, not even a snack. When I pick her up she says she isn’t hungry and that’s after a good 7 hours of not eating and just having water. I take her a banana to eat when I collect her and she eats that on the way home but it worries me. The nursery do try and say she will eat when she is hungry but I’m starting to worry. Has anyone got any tips? Thank you.

We're having similar, granted with a much younger baby. I ended up giving a list of things he likes and taking some raisins with the hope that it will start his appetite.

Wow that’s a long time for her to refuse food. Is she able to tell you why she doesn’t eat? Does the Nursery sit them altogether and put the food in front of them?

Thank you both for replying. Kr3000 are you able to provide your own food for your child at nursery? We can’t at mine unfortunately.

Jilted - she has always been very awkward when it comes to food but has started to branch out a little, she just says she wants to wait until I arrive and eat her own food. They do sit them all together to eat so I did think that may help. At snack time when bananas and crackers and raisins are on offer she refuses them even though normally she eats them. I was watching her through the fence yesterday as I arrived a bit early and they were playing in the garden and they were trying to get her to eat a banana and she was just sitting on the floor with her group silently sobbing, she did give it a lick but that was it. She goes back in again today and I’m currently trying to give her a large breakfast so she can fill up a bit.

My 3 year old is fussy and he's been at nursery since 9 months 2 days a week. Sometime he will eat everything. A lot of the time he will just eat the mashed potato. They seem to be obsessed with yogurts too and he hates yogurt! It is quite worrying but I'm trying not to worry too much.

Does your DD enjoy nursery? It sounds sad that she was sitting on the floor sobbing! Was no one comforting her? xx

The only thing we can take is something like raisins, so I'm guessing packaged. I know some places ask you to sign a form for it.

I really hope it all settles soon.