Refusing dinner....what should I do?
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Topic: Refusing dinner....what should I do?
Posted By: BeLoved
Subject: Refusing dinner....what should I do?
Date Posted: 27 March 2010 at 5:39pm
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My DD 16 months has started to most often than not refuse her dinner, and I am unsure of what I should do. Do I just take her out the highchair and thats it, you don't eat what is offered then you don't have dinner OR offer something else?
Tonight for example I offered beef casserole left over from last night which she actually ate last night, she flat out refused to eat it tonight, so I gave her a frankfurter and corn/rice wafer thing (nothing left in the house as need to go food shopping but no money to do so) and she ate all of these! I don't want to get into this habit as I have seen first hand how hard fussy eaters are my youngest sister was terrible and never ate what everyone else was having! But I don't know if not giving her any dinner is the right thing to do. She still has a bottle with her stories before bedtime. |
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Posted By: FreeSpirit
Date Posted: 27 March 2010 at 5:54pm
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I'm a soft mum, when my girl went through that stage I would ask her "Are you finshed?" and she'd grizzle/cry/kick so I would take off her bib, take her out of the highchair and ignore her until I finished my dinner. That was it for dinner. Then I'd give her supper an hour later, normally some porridge or toast - filling, but not as interesting as dinner food. I just don't have the heart to let her go hungry for 14 hours. These days, she eats all her dinner and gets an apple or yoghurt or toast for supper too. ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 27 March 2010 at 6:17pm
| With Daniel he always got put in his high chair, given his dinner and he has to sit there with it until we are finished or about 15-20 mins. If after that hes eaten he got dessert, if not he gets nothing. Hes soon learnt that its better to eat. If I know its something he likes there is no excuse if its something new I put something extra on his plate that I know he likes |
Posted By: cealz
Date Posted: 27 March 2010 at 11:00pm
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We are having the same problem
Some nights she will eat everything on the plate and others she wont even try one mouthfull even though its something I know she likes 
Very frustrating. I cant bear to let her go hungry so we make her wait until we are finished and then she gets fruit. Problem is is that fruit is her favourtie thing so she thinks its great. I dont think she would understand if we gave her nothing to eat and then she would probably wake up in the middle of the night hungry and that would be really annoying! ------------- 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 28 March 2010 at 12:10am
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now at 2 once she refuses thats it... i think at that age i was offering fruit, but nothing else. i tell them even now, i'm not a fry cook! (lol not that they know what i am talking about!) ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: kiwikid
Date Posted: 28 March 2010 at 2:51am
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If DS refuses to eat his dinner and its something he's had before and I know he likes then I'll get him down and try again 30mins later, however my bad habit is that I'll give him the food at his little table and chairs rather than at the dining table and more often than not he'll eat it.
If its something he's not had before then I usually dont bother offering it a second time as I know my little fuss pot and he wont eat it anyhow so I give him vegemite toast nothing interesting or yummy and no pudding/yougurt/fruit etc just boring toast - he never wakes in the night cos he's hungry (now 20mths). Has she cut her first set of molars / eye teeth? I found at that age DS was really fussy with his food as he had a bit of trouble with his molars. ------------- 
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Posted By: MissAngel
Date Posted: 28 March 2010 at 8:26am
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Thomas does this and it's so annoying! Sometimes he'll eat the lot, sometimes he will just spit it out and scream (and it's something he really likes) He seems to be very anti-meat (even when it's mushed up so much in something else - he still knows its there and wont eat it) but will eat fish fingers, shredded chicken etc. He's still in his highchair, we dont have a dining table and chairs and he has a plastic table and chairs, but he usually will launch that across the room instead of sitting and eating.
Sometimes we'll mix it up a bit now and have pudding for dinner and dinner for pudding, we'll have breakfast for dinner, things that just keep him interested and full! ------------- Alex, Thomas and Lily http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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