Thanks for the suggestion on putting both kinds of food on her plate! I'll try that.
A few days into implementing: limit milk, cut out biscuits completely, and let her eat herself with praises, she has been eating much better both at nursery and at home. However she doesn't seem to have taken in enough total amounts though. She's been waking up for a few nights crying for milk - yet these nights she has been had quite ok amount of dinner and before-bed milk. Before bed we normally give her 8 ounces of milk, then she ask for milk again and again before finally willingly going to sleep. We ended up, for every of these nights, giving her between at least 12 ounces to (yesterday) 2 and half bottles (21 ounces!!!).
She still woke up at about 1:30 screaming for milk. I calmed her down and ignored her request (I read that 2-yr olds should get like something like 15 ounces each day. She does get her morning bottle which is about 7 ounces already). She was cranky but was able to go back to sleep. Then she woke up again at 5:30 and no way could go back to sleep and had to take another bottle.
Something I've done wrong? I thought maybe they get hungry at night they'll learn to eat more in the day. My little one seems to fill up easily and thus want to eat more frequently. That's probably she has been peckish on snacks in the past all the time. I would hate to go back to give her more snacks because that's a sure route to her taking only 2 or 3 spoons at lunch or dinner. Very confused, what else can I do?
