What in the name of God am I meant to do with a child that won't eat? She's teething, fair enough, but she basically seems to be getting by on a few crumbs of food a day. Her weight is fine, bowel movements fine, lots of wet nappies and she sleeps ok - BUT during the day she grizzles and moans continually from 6am when she wakes up until 9am when she has a nap. During this time she won't eat anything, but is clearly hungry.
I give her porridge, she stores up a good load in her mouth and then sprays it all over me before refusing all food.
I give her toast, she gums a bit half-heartedly then throws it on the floor.
Fruit, she has a bit of a go, gets pissed off that it's hard to hold, hurls it on the floor.
If I give her something like shredded wheat she will happily hold it and maybe take a couple of bites but then with the rest she just destroys them and rubs the pieces into her eyes and hair any chance she gets. If I intervene she flips out and cries until she is gagging on her own fury.
Lunch and Dinner are almost exclusively her chomping on finger foods, and she's doing ok but not great. She clearly gets enough to get her from nap time to nap time because she's generally cheerful enough during the day.
I am confident there's almost certainly no health problems because she's a charmingly plump little baby who drinks her milk very well and is bang in the middle being average weight, but when she grumbles for hours and hours I need something to give her to shut her the hell up and might even end up in her stomach.
Any ideas?