At breaking point.

My baby turns 1 in 2 weeks and she still won’t eat any finger food or put any food in her mouth herself or hold her own bottle or drink water. I’m so fed up. I’m sick of every meal having to be cooked food and fed to her. I batch cook to save me cooking 3 times a day but I’m just so fed up. Yes I do all the obvious things to encourage her to do it so I really don’t need people to say “try this, try that” I have been for 6 months! She’s had her 9-12 month review they didn’t care and just told me to keep trying. 6 months I’ve been trying and I’m just done. Feeding her myself is hit and miss aswell sometimes I can spend 2 hours a day feeding her. She sleeps through the night unless she has a bad day eating in which case she wakes up hungry. I don’t even know what the point of this post is. I just need to rant.

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What is her food and milk schedule if you don’t mind me asking? Xx

@Storme 3 small meals a day and around 16oz of milk a day. Can’t cut down the milk anymore as she won’t drink ANY water.

What times etc are they all? Xx

@Storme 7.30/8 bottle, 1.5 hours later breakfast. Lunch around 1pm. Bottle around 3.30. Dinner around 5/5.30 and bottle at bedtime. I don’t see why times would have anything to do with my baby not wanting to feed herself but will happily let me…

Maybe try swapping the bottle and breakfast around and offer a finger food snack morning and afternoon. See how that goes xx I would put them on her high chair table and put it towards her mouth, if she bites into it I would let go and place her hand up to her mouth to encourage her to grab it. I take it that she can grasp her toys etc? X

@Storme I do all this already as said in the post im doing everything possible and all the obvious things. Even the health visitor couldn’t suggest anything else as im doing it all. Yes she can just fine.

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