My 2 year old screams (not whines, not cries) screams till she’s sick any time there isn’t any food in her mouth (or until she has an asthma attack).
She has three huge meals a day, she eats WAY more than me. I really need some help because I’m losing it.
For breakfast she’ll have toast and cereal, or toast and porridge, pancakes and cereal etc, with a banana or apple and some milk. Within the hour, she’s screaming begging for food. If I do give in, which trust me I have to sometimes, I get her a peach, or a pear, something like that. If I don’t, she screams until 10:30 which is supposed to be snack time, where she’ll have crackers and cheese or something similar.
Lunch will be wraps which she’ll usually have two of with various ingredients, a sandwich or an omelette, which she’ll have with some tomatoes or cucumber, and some crackers or cheese.
Her afternoon snack we try to keep to fruit because she eats so much I dread to think. For dinner she has what we’re having, so like curry or pasta just general dinner, but will beg for more afterwards, regardless of having yogurt or rice pudding too.
We can’t eat in front of her, because if we do she screams until she gets some or we hide it. She’ll hit up and kick us until she gets food too. We think she may be autistic, and both her nursery and health visitor have said this but they won’t do anything until she’s 3.
I am not joking when I say any time she doesn’t have food in her mouth (apart from maybe 10 mins after each meal) she is SCREAMING. She’s not particularly chubby, but she’s definitely rounder than most toddlers her age. It’s so annoying because people say we should be thankful she’s eating, but I don’t think she should be eating this much.
Please some advice, just anything? If anyone maybe has an autistic toddler is this something to do with that? Thanks for reading I know it’s long I just don’t know what to do, she’s always so unhappy 