Refusing to eat
I really need some advice. My LO is refusing to eat. She’s drinking about 9oz milk when she wakes up. Then I offer breakfast a few hours later (usually weetabix) but she refuses to eat it. Then before her first nap she has about 8oz milk again. Lunch is around 2:30pm and again she’s not eating anything and only snacking on rice cakes/fruit. Then dinner around 5:30/6pm again she’s refusing to have anything. But she will have 9oz milk before bed.
I am really worried she’s not having food. The reason I am giving her milk is so she’s having something.
Is anyone experiencing the same? And idea what I can do to make her eat more? She was fine with food before but this has been like this for weeks now!
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I would try to offer her the food before the milk feeds, I tend to give my daughter breakfast around 7:45 and milk around 9:30, she always eats her breakfast. I’ve noticed a definite reduction in her appetite if she has milk first
I only give her two feeds a day now (unless she asks for milk) which is morning and then before bed xx
My little one was like this until he weaned off milk at 12 months. Then his appetite grew enormously
Same as mine, he shows great interest in Food but won't eat it. Its sooo tough and stressful 😪 the only thing he takes in smooth fruit puree and yoghurt. His nursery says when he refuses food they can't give him the puree and yoghurt so he goes the whole eating nothing. So heartbreaking 💔 health visitor don't care.
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