Name: Dimple
Hi All,
long one but wanted to tell u whats happening to give u better picture, please take time to read.
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 4 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 4 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. yesterday I am just gave her cerelac/gerber nothing else the other 2 time so that atleast something goes in her stomach that too with many many difficulty. today no to gerber also. This is happening since last 4 days - not eating food. She is keep on skipping one or other meal everyday since last 4 days. 1st day dinner, 2nd day breakfast and 3rd day lunch & today no meals.
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.
If no meals then should I replace them with milk then should I start giving her 3 regular and 3 milk(replace with meals) to 17 months old or should I more wait for her to start eating?
Please advise/help me. Thanks in advance.
She was thumb sucking when she was hungry and during sleep but since last 4-5 days she is sucking thumb a lot I am thinking its because she is hungry.
She has got 11.5 teeth till now. 4 front upper, 3.5 front lower and 1-1-1-1 each side for chewing. I am not able to see any other teeth comming.
Other wise she looks normal.
Please advise.