My Child won't eat

[Love2bake]

Anyone watching.

I get the feeling this programme is going to make me

Good for you turtle

"Did she suddenly wake up one morning and decide she'd eat nothing but chocolate fingers and Rice Krispies covered in melted chocolate?"

No Mutt, she didn't.

It explained that she had problems with food from first being weaned.

Didn't you see that bit?

Maybe it was on whilst you were posting

"Fucking ridiculous.

How would anyone with half a brain get to the point of feeding their child on a diet of chocolate?"

All babies go through the gag reflex when trying new foods. My friends used to panic and make such a fuss, that she shared their panic. It was nursery at 14m that got her to eat solids.

I can understand the children's problems to an extent.

I wouldn't describe myself as a really picky eater but I do have a number of textural aversions, and my dislike of particular foods is due to this rather than tastes.

I'll shudder all over if something is the wrong texture and I can imagine it's even less pleasant for a young child.

Another factor is developing an aversion to a food which one has eaten just before one became ill, very possibly from an unrelated cause,but the association between the food and the ill feeling remains, hence my hatred of rhubard pie.

I wonder how many of these kids have a genuine food phobia problem and how many are picky eaters, whose parents have never successfully got them to eat properly

That mother will be very upset me thinks when he stops taking bottles.
Shes enjoying him taking bottles and sharing the bed.

Before restricting his diet ds1 ate everything. His diet restriction coincided with his regression and took a few weeks - in which time he went from no food refusal at all (he literally would eat everything) to only eating bread and dry cheerios. It was so quick it was hard to notice it in progress. It was as if we woke up and suddenly he wasn't eating.

most children have given up nightfeeds by age 1
hahahaha
Sense some ishoos here on this lad and his mummy.

He's a cutie though

With the child who takes only bottles, I'd agree that his mother plays a considerable part in the continuation of his diet.

She seems to baby him greatly and unlike the first child who wants to eat but can't, she seems to have decided that he can't/shouldn't try other foods.

chocolate has energy though, if your kid was listless and refusing food then i can see how you'd give it a try, hoping it would lead to something else.

falcon- yes with ds1 - a lot of it was textures I think. But also the illness thing. After he stopped eating we made him regular smoothies as he would drink that- then he was sick after a smoothie one night and that was it they were gone (still are 7 years later).

Really really feel for this mum.

Mutt - that was an observation as to why phobic children will often eat chocolate.

And as regards introducing chocolate when a child hasn't mastered 'real' food, it is a step towards real food. My dd (oral aversion) had chocolate as a 'first' food.

i feel for the parents with the baby boy but the boy who is drinking bottles i think is mostly due to the mother, even just on milk why is he drinking from bottles? nad yoiu do not need to sterilise them now either surely!

Yes it said she was worried about what would happen when he tried new foods. He is the youngest and 'her baby' with the bottles and 16 nappies a day.

OMG the pizza looks worse than the wotsits!!!

Aitch, I wonder if the parents have tried BLW with the blonde little boy?
I can see how all that spoon fussing and plane noises cause him distress.
BLW might really suit him.

rachel needs to learn to eat with her mouth shut

kids can sense when the parents care too much about it. Control
I plonk food down and thats it.
I know some do have genuine food phobias truly
dd had chewing problems and had a long yoghurt phase due to gagging. So we let her, then one day she tried other stuff and that was it.
I never pushed it though.

Aitch- and if your child won't eat anything else then you have to give something even if it is chocolate. . When ds1 was at the height of his problems he wouldn't eat outside of our house. So if we went out for the day then he wouldn't eat at all. Which meant in the evening it had to be jam and toast a pack of crisps and a biscuit because otherwise he would have gone to bed too low on sugars and would spend the next 3 days smelling of pear drops and throwing up.

Thank god those days are over.