Someone wanna come feed my bloody daughter shes doing my head in
No matter what i cook for her dinner at the mo we are having tantrums and refusals to eat. Ive tried cutlery, no cutlery, earlier dinner, later dinner, at her little table, in her highchair. Shes driving me to distraction. Yesterday was travelling all day so she had some fruit for brekkie, a nutrigrain bar for snack, she ate a handful of chips off my plate for lunch and a bit of milkshake then refused anything else, she ate 1/2 a marshmallow crispie square on way home then refused all dinner and ended up with a yighurt and 2 oz milk bedtime.
Today shes had handful cheerios for lunch, took her to pizza hut for a buffet as a treat for lunch thinking some me and her time and some pizza might tempt her, she ate a small slice pizza, a dollop of relish with her fingers then took umbrage at the rest of the food and went into a meltdown. She was still hungry though cos i offered her a fruit pouch in walmart and she practically inhaled it. Ive tried putting a bit of soup in her sucky cup now to see if she wants to try that and shes having none of it.
Ive bought some potato and carrot waffles for dinner tonight and a couple of nut burgers to see if she will try them with some beans but this is doing my head in. Im not making a huge deal out of it and have instituted a no dinner no treats/extra meals rule so if she doesnt eat dinner she can have a yoghurt or some fruit but im not running around making extra food. But honestly someone please tell me this is a phase, she used to eat anything you put in front of her. I know shes *still* teething at the mo as she seems to have been doing non stop for months now and im even tempted to try a spoonful of calpol 30 mins before dinner to see if its a sore mouth causing it.
at end of tether with it, shes had one hot evening meal in 4 days now