I'm really struggling to get Ollie to eat at the moment
Breakfast - Dry cereal and fruit and grain bar - cereal gets half eaten and then lobbed around the room, cereal bar gets eaten

Lunch - Sandwich ( choc and PB, cheese, ham paste, tuna mayo, jam (not together!!)) choc and PB he eats most of, the rest he hardly touches.
Cheese (babybel or chunk of cheese, depends what's in the fridge) babybel gets eaten, chunk of cheese maybe, maybe not.
Crisps (sometimes, if we've got any in) he will normally eat but recently has started lobbing them around the room too.

Dinner - doesn't seem to want to eat anything at the moment!

He hates fruit and veg apart from bananas.

I've stopped his snacks at the mo to try and make sure he's hungry enough but it's made no difference :S

Please help

Lita Sam is exactly the same at the mo. I think its a stage they all go through around this age. Getting anything into them is a struggle!

Sam will quite happily eat chocolate but wont touch his dinner! Hes not even interested in crisps any more really!

I really wouldnt worry hun, just keep giving him food and dont force the issue if he wont eat it xxx

Do I just keep giving him food that he would normally refuse or give him food that i know he will definitely eat ie bananas, cereal bars, chocolate, yoghurts etc?

I wouldnt go to any extra effort (sounds cruel) cause its probably not that he has gone off it, maybe include more of the foods he will actually eat but dont stop everything else altogether cause you dont want a fussy eater on your hands xx

Makes sense, thanks hun xx

i don't have any experience with this (yet!) but i would probably just keep giving elijah what he would normally be getting, and keep an eye on wether he seems to be loosing weight or not - i would be very cautious about just giving him things he would definitely eat...maybe incorporate those things into meals so he isn't getting 'treats' but they happen to be there if that makes sense? that way he is eating a bit but not getting the message he could do what he wants?

hmmmm, yeah, that's an interesting way of doing it. Like maybe stick banana in with his dry cereal so he thinks it's part of the meal rather than me giving in? Will definitely give it a go! Thanks xx

Sophie has done this and now she eats fine, loads, I just kept offering her food and eventually she ate it.

Aimee went through a stage where she was the same. She was perhaps a couple of months younger.

If you tried to give her anything that she couldnt eat herself, there would be some serious screaming going on.

I had to feed her finger food of things I kne wshe liked for about 2 months until she snapped out of it. So, she lived on chicken nuggets and wedges/waffles for this time, not ideal, but she was fed.

I also used to feed her lunch/dinner in stages. Like, no crisps or fromage frais until most of the sandwich is gone.

Also, does he have any teeth coming through? He may have one which is causing him pain to eat?

x

I think it's something they all go through... Tyler goes through weeks of eating fine and then weeks of not eating at all and each time it's a different problem.

I have noticed that the more we react to him not eating the less he eats so if he refuses breakfast I just don't give him any. Now if he'd missed breakfast I would probably an hour later offer him some toast or something else but he doesn't know that I'm desperate for him to eat he just gets offered a second chance to eat (he gets offered toast if he does eat his breakkie too btw)

mm other things - he eats better if we all sit down and eat and I try and praise him loads when he DOES eat something and it's really encouraging him to try new things, hes really into using his new metal fork and stabbing the food as he gets loads of praise when he does but now all he will eat is stuff he can stab haha.
and he prefers things off my plate (i.e. his mash potato is YUK but mine us yummmm) so maybe you could sit down with the same food he is offered and see if he will take some of yours (Tyler also loves it when I used our cutlery to feed him think he thinks he's a grown up)
and finally, if Tyler doesn't think he's being made to have a meal he eats better - umm like if I sit down with a tuna sandwich that's actually for him, he iwll happily come o ver and eat it (steal it!) but if I put it in front of him for him to eat he won't.

Sorry if you've tried all these things already they're just things that worked for me.

I would give him the things he will eat but also keep incuding things he won't eat but most importantly just pretend you don't care that he's not eating he'll soon learn he's the only one suffering!

Cerys is having an episode like this too at the moment Ive noticed they ARE episodes and I think they all go through it. Jade thats excellent advice there, I try and do the same - pretend im not bothered and dont make a fuss about her not eating. I dont force the issue xx

here you go, theres a sticky about fussy eaters xx

http://www.babiesandall.com/t3943-fussy-eaters

Definitely don't give in and only give him what he likes. My sister did that with my niece and now she is a pain in the arse for food. Now at almost 3, after more than a year of being fussy, she only eats a very narrow range of foods most of which are sweet.

Ollie won't let himself starve so just keep offering food and let him help himself.

I think a lot of it is because they are too busy doing other things to be bothered to stop and eat so giving him finger foods he can eat on the go might help. Wil has toast in a little plastic bag and carries it around with him in a morning a bit like eating a bag of crisps and most of it gets eaten over the course of an hour or so.

Another idea is to make smoothies with banana, various soft fruits (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries etc), milk and a blob of ice cream. Stick it in the blender and serve in a cool cup with a straw. Lots of goodness but fun and tasty too.

Agree with everyone. It could be teeth or he might be feeling a bit off. E is two and sometimes eats very little. I give her what I normally would and if she's hungry she will eat. Is he drinking more milk than normal? Hope he picks up Hun. It's awful and worrying when they don't eat x