My 8mo DD won't eat at the moment. This has happened before when she has been ill, but I cannot see any sign of illness currently. She is teething, and this always sends her off bottles (in fact if conditions are not 100% perfect she goes off bottles) but she normally eat solids like it is her last meal.
When she has refused to eat due to illness she did not wake at night for food either. This has been going on a couple of days now, and she woke up hungry last night - when she wouldn't settle after 1.5 hrs, I fed her a bottle and she took 180ml in a couple of minutes, absolutely starving.
She is not taking all that much milk to make up for not eating. She often doesn't take much milk, but like I said eat heaps of solids including HEAPS of yoghurt to make up for it.
When she is a bit fussy about food I give her finger food and she eats that instead - but she isn't eating that either, just playing with it.
Why won't she eat? And what can I do to encourage her and prevent more night feeding?
Her normal feeding routine is:
6:30 Bfast - cereal with yoghurt mixed in and formula mixed in too followed by bottle.
9ish - Morning Tea - fruit - usually a peach or the like cut in half with the seed removed.
11ish Lunch - vegies/protein, then some pureed fruit, then bottle
2ish After noon Tea - as with morning tea, or an arrowroot. sometimes a different fruit that she has in safe feeder
4:30ish Dinner - vegies/protein (significant portion of finger food here) plus yoghurt
6ish Bottle.
Normally she easily eats all teh solids, and bottles vary greatly. With less solids, she never makes up the difference in milk, so we try to no focus too much on that, and give lots of yoghurt. Now she is barely touching the solids, and as normal, is not making up for it with the milk.
