I had the strangest battle of wills with O today 
. I'm not sure if I did the right thing!
We had lunch in a cafe as we were out and about. O refused to let me even put the spoon of food near his mouth - refused to do it himself, just refused and screamed. It isn't a food he has had before - but it was just a pouch of shepherds pie. I offered him the pouch to suck, still screaming. Waitress tried distracting him, DS tried distracting him... nothing worked at all, he just point blank refused.
I didn't want to give up though, because we were very busy, wouldn't have time to stop again (waited 20 mins for a table as it was). And he was clearly hungry, as he had been showing signs, hence why we went to the cafe.
After about 15 minutes, I managed to get a tiny bit in his mouth. Then he wanted it all of a sudden and was making his more more more noises! . He ate the lot, wanted more, and was quite happy.
It was really odd. The other people in the cafe were laughing at him because they had been witness to the bloody tantrums from him in the first place, and me trying to get him to eat.
If it had been any other day, I'd have left it. But I couldn't have done today. He still would have been hungry. And the screaming would have continued around the rest of the places we had to get to.
What would you have done?! He's not at all fussy with food, and neither does he point blank refuse food like that.
It was just weird how it was all no no no, then suddenly he wants it .