Eating!

What's the meal time gaps including breastfeeding. I had to be persistent with meal times to build my sons appetite and expectation to eat. Had to play around with timings until I got it right. Maybe lunch needs to be later. Sounds like he has a decent breakfast. We do breakfast around 9. Small snack 10.30/11 often refused but always offered. Lunch between 12 and 12.30 depending if snack is ate Afternoon snack 3.30ish fruit and biscuit usually Dinner 6pm Bottle for bedtime

It took a long time for snacks to be needed though, hunger built up overtime getting a bigger appetite

My little boy isn’t breastfed and he is exactly like your little one. It stresses me out so much to the point I hate meal times 😩 he goes through phases where he will eat something then the next day screams if I set it down in front of him. I feel like I can’t win. I also struggle with lunch and snack ideas as he doesn’t eat fruit. Hoping he will grow out of it 🤞🏼

It's taken so much effort to get my little girl to eat We finally have found what works for us. So you need to find what works for you. 1. She was having too much milk. She would have milk in the middle of the night too. So focused on more food less milk. If she asked for milk it was no but uiu can have this instead. If she said no she got nothing till she said yes to food. It didn't last long before she'd eat more food because she was hungry 2. Because of no milk in the middle of the night she gets up at 5am hungry. So that's when her 1st breakfast is. She then has a 2nd breakfast at 9am. It does mean our day starts at 5am every day. But if I give her milk then her whole day for food is ruined. So it works for us

3. I also notice when she does activities she eats more. So we have tried to put a routine in place where she will have activities. It really does help. So far we have swimming and football sessions. But we also go for play dates and walks to encourage that. 4. Have set meal times for food and snacks to encourage that food time. And eventually she will get used to it. She has the option to decline bit she knows to expect it 5. She only has milk for sleep. So a bottle for nap and a bottle for bedtime. That's it.

6. I've let her play with her food, and encourage her to feed herself and found she's more inclines to eat if she does it vs me feeding her 7. Nursery had helped too. She eats so much when she is there so I try to replicate the timings they do. Though they have more success as she has other children to replicate.