Hi hetal, hope you are fine and your kids too.I am back again with a very worrying query, my daughter who is 22 months old has stopped eating solids, it has been almost a week now that she is refusing to eat except having milk and other liquids,she is quite active and normal otherwise,hence really dont know what to do to make her eat,have tried all the things possible but no luck.am really really worried.please advice.thanks in advance. sss replied. hi dear,
i have a 20 months old son.he is not very fussy about food.so i dont know why your daughter completely refuses solids.i think she is full with the liquids,otherwise if children are hungry,they will have food.
also,children at this stage want to eat on their own.so give the food in her hands.in b/w you can also feed her.also give fingerfoods to her.let me know her updates.all the best. Dimple replied. Hi All,

long one but wanted to tell u whats happening to give u better picture, please take time to read.

I am currently facing almost same problem with my daughter who is 17months old and refusing on having other then liquids and milk.

With lots of try also I am not able to feed her since last 3 days. 2 months back she developed habit of keeping food in mouth and I used to give her water, chip etc between each bite to make her swallow food. But its not working since last 3 days. She is keeping in her mouth food for around 15minutes and then making sign with fingure(she not speaking yet) towards closed mouth(with food) that something is there in her mouth and crying face. If now we give water to her to swallow food she is making sign of having some unwanted stuff in mouth and then not eating. She come fwd for drinking water but dont want to swallow food and asking us to remove from her mouth then we again distract her and try to make her swallow by distracting. In this way she is just having 4 bites in 1.30-2hours. Thats almost kind of skipping meal as its 1/4-1/3portion of her meal. Since yesterday I am just giving her cerelac/gerber nothing else the other 2 time so that atleast something goes in her stomach that too with many many difficulty but dont know how long it will be. This is happening since last 3 days - not eating food. She is keep on skipping one or other meal everyday since last 3 days. 1st day dinner, 2nd day breakfast and today 3rd day lunch.

Her daily routine includes 3 times milk and 3 meals. once 4oz juice. Meals r almost little more then half katori. If we measure liquid then its 100ml comes till that place. gerber means 10tsps.

I used to give her pureed food till age of 15months. month back started giving well mashed food. Till now(till 17months of her age) I gave her mashed rice-dal, idli-dal, dalia, khichdi, cerelac, upma nothing else so tried all this 5 in 3 days but no luck. She is not interested at all.

Should I reduce milk to 2 times? I have already stopped juice/milk once in a day. One more thing, when she is skipping her meal, she is asking herself for water and she take almost 150ml water but when she has meal properly she takes only 30-50ml water after meal.

Please advise/help me. Thanks in advance.