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I got so fed up with food when Daniel turned one. He was the most horrible child ever to feed. My friend who works in a daycare said she had never seen such a horrible eater before. We always struggled with food from the beginning too. But now I have a champion eater.

One day I said to myself enough is enough and I force fed him. He was strapped in his high chair, if he didn't open his mouth I got my finger involved and opened it. If he spat it out, I put it back in and did that for like a week and now he eats anything really. Loves meat, loves veges, is pretty good with fruit. Loves finger foods and getting in the pantry looking for food lol. I felt like a right mean mummy but it worked for us.
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I haven't read all the responses either so sorry if this has already been said.

First he won't starve himself, so if you have offered him a variety of foods and he doesn't eat it then hes probably not hungry. You say hes quite big well then hes obviously getting enough somewhere so try not to stress (I know easier said than done).

What I do in the mornings is make a lunch box for Jack and put it on his table and leave it there all day for him to snack on. Some days he only eats the fruit, some days only the cheese but as a whole he seems to eat pretty well. At dinner time he gets his dished up with the rest of us, if he doesn't eat it I offer him yoghurt or fruit, if he turns that down then he gets nothing else.

A study was actually done on an orphanage in India or somewhere and they put a whole heap of different foods out at every meal and they actually discovered the kids would eat a perfectly balanced diet. Forcing kids to eat things they don't want to actually masks this natural ability and making them eat more than they want will make them unaware of when they are actually full.
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Luke had problems with solids he wouln't take them until around 8 months. i was extremely stressed about it. It became a war. i was not winning. I had a fanastic plunket nurse who said I have a choice ever fight or give up. So i gave up
( sort of!) meaning i offered food at every meal time home cooked, jar food, everything and if he didn't eat it ,so be his choice, not mine. I was offering it he chose not to take it. (He ws breastfed too, slf weaned at 15 months.)
Then one day he ate and now he loves food.

Funny thing is around this age they develop funny little habits Luke has to have tomato sauce with all his meals!

It's so hard and you are doing so well. Everyone's given really good advice.

Luke is lean and doesn't have any fat on him he's just on 10kg so I worry a bit, but you've gotta put worry into perpective. As DH says he was a skinny boy too so it must be genetic! DH is fussy tooo!!
Has to have tomato sauce with everything! sounds like Luke.

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