End of my tether!!

PrincessLeia · #1 (**permalink**) 07-11-11, 12:21

My daughter is 3yrs and 4 months old. She used to have a really healthy appetite, up until she was about 19 months old when I moved back to my parents. I had gotten rid of her high chair as my Mum didn't want it sitting around and of course my DD could not reach the table sat in a normal chair. From this day on, she got fussy!

She doesn't even like the 'normal' food a toddler would ie sausages, chicken, nuggets, beans, mash etc.

I basically make her the same as what we are eating and if I am lucky she will have a few mouthfuls (I'm talking 5 at most!) and then she tells me she is full or she doesn't like it. I do not allow her to have anything else and she goes to bed with an empty stomach.

She does drink a lot of juice, only because she doesn't like milk so I wonder if she is full up on this. I make sure before her tea that she has as little juice as possible but this is hard also.

I don't know, I am worried sick!

Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated!!

xx

DrP · #2 (**permalink**) 07-11-11, 16:57

All the changes are bound to have upset her and changed her routine and it sounds like that has made her more of a picky eater than anything else. The first thing I would do is make sure she is comfortable with her eating environment, has a proper chair, can easily reach the table etc.

I would cut out the juice or cut it way back to a small amount per day. It will fill her up. My son drinks mostly water, in fact that is generally all he is allowed other than milk. Juice is for special treats only. He might have milk to drink with his dinner, but he gets plenty of dairy from other sources so I don't worry about him not drinking much milk.

Make sure that she always gets one thing she likes with each meal so that she will eat that, and encourage her to eat the other items she is given. Don't make a big deal of it if she doesn't. Maybe try a reward chart, you could introduce juice as the reward (rather than as an everyday drink), so if she eats all her meals or a certain amount of her meals on a given day she gets a cup of juice.