Hi Ladies,
I'm hoping for some advice on how to feed DD. She was a pretty good eater, loved veg, self-fed pretty well and we were on 3x meals, 2x snacks and 2x formula bottles (WU and BT).
Recently she's been sick, it's been going on for ages, about 4 weeks I think. She started off with a 2 week cold, had about 3 days of being well and started nursery where she picked up an awful throat infection. She's finished the antibiotics but now the poor thing is coughing and has a runny nose again.
I get that being sick she hasn't got a huge appetite but it's been going on for so long that I am getting worried. She'll have days where she will eat a proper meal but otherwise she'll only take small serving or only a few bites before refusing to go on. I've ended up offering her tons of different things in the hopes that she'll eat a bit and I basically end up following her around with food all over the house. Sitting down at the table is impossible. For example our morning: WU formula 100ml, breakfast 5tsp cereal (the the table) and she refused more, 1h later 3 bits of banana, 30min later I chased her around with some yoghurt and then offered her a mini rice cake of which she ate half and 3 crushed nuts. In total it was probably a normal meal but stretched over 4h!!
DH is losing patience and if she stops eating after a few spoonfuls her just gives up and lets her do her own thing. I'd be fine with that if it was a short term thing but after so many weeks I have to get the food into her somehow right? I've also taken to feeding her while she's distracted by something because I stand more of a chance then. So I carry her around and show her stuff while she chews or we chase the cat or watch sth on TV.
What would you ladies do? Go on as I have been and worry about bad habits later or go the route DH is for, i.e. if she wont eat then tough?
I have to add that she is one skinny kid, so maybe that's why I am so hell bent on preventing any more weight loss:/