My 12 month old DD (nearly 13 mo) is terrible at eating. She just doesn't seem to like food. Apart from bread. She will eat bread, toast, breadsticks, crumpets, bagels and anything else that is bread-like. Other than that - she hardly eats anything. Her diet consists of:
cream cheese
cheese (cheddar-type cheese)
Yoghurt (sometimes)
Organix pots of banana porridge
Organix pots of mango and peach rice pudding
Pasta (with cream cheese and pesto)
Smoked salmon (!)
Fruit - sometimes - berries mainly
She now refuses meat - although used to eat bits of ham. She has never eaten vegetables - not in puree or as finger food - just totally refuses them and I can't hide them in a tomato pasta sauce because she won't eat that! She won't eat 'meals' only individual bits. If things she likes are put together like a pasta and cheese sauce, she will not touch them
She is still breastfed and just wants to do that all day - although as I work full time she usually only has feeds morning, evening and bedtime - plus many at night as she also doesn't sleep very well. At weekends, she wants to be fed all the time which is draining to say the least. Her nursery are worried because all she eats is bread - she refuses all other food.
I've really had enough - I can't take much more, quite apart from being completely shattered and having health problems because of the lack of sleep, I'm fed up of cooking nice meals to have them thrown on the floor and I dread mealtimes. My DH does what he can but he is also shattered and can't feed her at night as she will just scream for me. In fact, I have on occasion wondered if I just didn't bother giving her any food, whether she would even notice or miss it as she doesn't eat anything anyway.
She has never been interested in food, never eaten more than a couple of mouthfuls and always makes a massive fuss of not eating. We have mainly been doing BLW (because she wouldn't eat purees) and eating with her, showing we love our food etc but nothing - she just stares at us and then throws her food on the floor or screams. The whole 'food is fun until their one' was fine when she wasn't one, but now she is and she I'm getting worried. She is skinny and although bright and energetic, I haven't had her weight for a long time and I'm sure she will be at the bottom of the charts.
What on earth do I do and how can I get her to eat? When is going to learn to eat? What have I done wrong?
If anyone have any experience of this or wisdom to share I would be very grateful!
ps sorry for the long post....