Fussy Eater

[Mesmummy]

Hi all

Need help and advice please, my 14mo has turned into such a fussy eater, we try to do both Finger lead weaning and spoon feeding, in the beginning I was giving her purée, she will happily have jars but if I make and put in blender some days she will eat and others she won’t she is fussy when it comes to most FLW things toast she will eat but can’t give her that for the rest of her life 😡
She will only eat dry cereal once it’s got milk on she’s not interest yet she will have the cow and gate tropical cereal no problems.
I’m considering starting again and going right back to the beginning with her has anyone done this or do we just persevere?

Any advice greatly appreciated

A very stressed mum x

You have my sympathies as we had a very fussy DD. Unless she has some medical reason for you to be feeding her at 14 months, I’d just stop.

It might help you to keep a food diary. Try to look at what she’s eaten over a week. That way, if she refuses a meal, you can see that over the course of the week she’s had enough and it stops you worrying.

I’d also give her a decent vitamin and reduce her milk down to 300 ml a day.

Try some different things for breakfast, blueberry pancakes, scrambled egg, smooth nut better on toast or even a banana.

Then give her whatever you are eating for lunch and dinner, as long as you keep an eye on the salt.

If she refuses anything, just ignore and she may try it or if she’s not eating, assume she's not hungry and clear away when you’ve.

I borrowed this book from the library and it has some good ideas on what to try them with. This Book should also have some good ideas.

Sorry, posted too soon. Yiu might find the book Help! My Child Won’t Eat! helpful too.

The only other thing I remember doing with DD was to serve really small portions. You can always give more if she’s eaten up

No there's no medical reason for us to be feeding her it's just the way of us getting food into her 😂

It's difficult to give her what we have for dinner and lunch as I work 4 days a week so she is with 3 different family members one day each week and then nursery for the other week.

She eats most veg but fruit she just pulls faces as if it's too sour for her, yet she will happily eat a bag of wotsits my FIL calls her a wotsit queen 🙈 My DH was a fussy eater until we met 11years ago he would only eat tinned carrots because they were soft (I always say he's too lazy to chew) and now concerned our daughter is like him.

She chucks the scrambled egg on the floor every time I try her with it but will have poached egg but only the yolk never the white she spits it out.

I will give the book a try thank you

There is a baby led weaning app support group - you would probably get some brilliant advice posting on there as well. The baby led weaning apps by Natalie Peale are brilliant, there's a fussy toddler one which might be worth a try. My Daughter isn't fussy but I find we can all eat food from the recipes so saves cooking more than one meal.

I always think sometimes I just don't fancy eating this or that, little ones must be the same. Just frustrating when they can't tell you and it's the same story every meal time!

It’s totally fine for the family to give her things like a ham sandwich and some cucumber sticks or cheese on toast and some halved cherry tomatoes for lunch and it would probably be much easier than expecting them to feed her

Is there a reason she can’t eat dinner with you? If you eat too late? Could you bring it forward so that you eat with her? If you work too late, maybe cook enough for 3 and give her the leftovers for her Dinner the next evening?