Hey guys I’m at wits end at the minute no matter what I do my baby won’t eat food he point blanks refuses I’ve been to doctors, midwives the health visitor has been out and there’s nothing wrong. he’s 17 months he started off great eating everything I gave him and at 9 months he just stopped and just wanted milk. I feel like I’m failing him and don’t know what to do! If there is any advise anyone can give me please please let me know
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Oh gosh, this sounds really difficult! 🫂 did anything happen prior to the not eating? My LB stopped eating food temporarily following having a bad cold. Things I did included holding him in my arms and feeding him by hand/ spoon instead of the high chair for a bit, always ate a bit of whatever it is in front of him and then offer him a spoon, and give him a plastic spoon to play with as I fed him. He got his appetite back after a couple of weeks.

Did the doctor eliminate arfid?

Food refusal is very normal for toddlers , mine spent months basically only having a mouthful or two at meal time but loads of milk it was really stressful, then he just snapped out of it and now he eats loads

There are things that we did to encourage him to eat like let him eat from our plates, put food in his mouth while he’s distracted, try different foods as one day he would like something and the next day he would hate it. We didn’t let him have milk before food so that avoided him filling up on milk.

We also found that he ate really well at nursery because he was copying other other children, but he wouldn’t eat at home, so we put him in nursery more so that he would eat

Oh my goodness, change your GP!
Also, have you thought about asking ChatGPT, and then going back to the GP armed with questions based on what that says?