I have a 3 year old daughter who has autism.
she will not eat, she already ate very beige and not a balanced diet what so ever, she weaned well but at about 1 she started refusing everything. She hasn't eaten meat since her weaning days. She hasn't had a peice of fruit or a vegetable in god knows how long. She is living in crisps and breakfast rolls (crepes, pain au chocolat, croissants) a lot of toast, chips are the only (cooked) food I gcan get her to eat and it's getting to the point now where I'm just feeling like a huge failure. I don't know what to do. I tried to get her into a feeding programme and she was knocked back because apparently her case isn't severe enough.
im crying myself to sleep most nights from
worry. She has dark circle under her eyes which I read was malnutrition.. and I just want to scream, anything I offer her is thrown across the room. I've had to put a child lock on the snack cupboard because she's constantly after chocolate and crisps but she needs to eat something with some nutritional value. My other 2 children are absolutely fine and eat loads of good quality meals. Im serving 4 cottage pies with veg and 1 plate of toast at dinner time.
im really at a loss. She was weighed at the doctors and her weight is fine, she's a little on the shorter side but she's following her percentile from birth so they aren't worriedx but I really am