Name: SRI

Hello Hetal and experienced moms pls help me..

My 9 months old daughter is not eating anything for the past 1 week. She refuses even her favorite food like raagi..
Last week she had loose motions. I went to pediatrician and he prescribed her Nutrolin B and Normet for 5 days.
Does these medicines cause a fall in apetite?
My pediatrician feels its ok even if babies does not eat anything even for 8 hrs at a stretch.. as long as they are active. But as a mom I am worried...
is this eating habbit normal? what could be the cause?
She sleeps very early like 7:30 PM and wakes up only at 6:30 AM in the morning and I BF her during night.Not sure how much milk she consumes in the night.. but I feel milk supply will be low..

Even before last week.. she was little fussy abt eating.. her feeding includes.. raagi twice a day(boiled with water, ghee and salt),
Rice with toor dal(methi/palak/tomato/rasam) and curd for lunch and again rice with rasam for dinner. In between she may eat
a fruit like banana/apple. I donot BF her day time..

1) She doesnot drink milk at all.. She hates the smell of milk(other than BM)..I tried adding milk in raagi, kheer .. but no luck.
As per my pediatrician,its ok not to have milk.. Is it ok not to have milk? She eats curd one a day (8-9 table spoons).Will that be sufficient?

2) Is Raagi too heavy? Most of the times she skips her dinner. I feed her Raagi at arnd 7:30 AM and she doesnot eat anything till 1 PM..
Is this bcos of Raagi? Or is it bcos of some gastric trouble? And again at 5PM I give her Ragi..I try to keep her wake till 8 PM to
feed her dinner.. but most of the times I am unsuccessful in feeding her dinner. She refuses to eat. She only eats the next day morning..(from 5 PM till 7:30 AM next day she doesnot eat in anything)
I used to give her woodwards Gripe water.. thrice a day.. But my pediatrician again advised me not to give her gripe water as the kid should be able to handle the gas eventually on her own..
Can anyone pls suggest me what I need to do to increase her apetite? This is really bothering me..
I started giving her idly, boiled veggies like Carrots/potato but she doesnot seem to like them.. She spits them. Does it take time for them to like the taste.


Her birth wt. was 3.7 kg and now she is 9kg. She is very active. But my wrry is all abt her apetite. She just refuses to eat.
This is bothering me alot...
And one more thing to add.. she likes eating puffed rice as finger food.Is puffed rice good or will that suppress hunger?

Sorry for such a long msg... I need you valuable advice...
Thanks for your time..

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