Spitting everything out
My 12mo old spits out almost all food. Fruits, veggies, meats, you name it. We've been offering 3 meals a day for months now and it's not getting better. But here's the kicker - she does know how to eat. She just .... won't. She will like a food for a while and then hate it. Peaches for example: we went through a phase where she devoured fresh peaches and loved them for like 3 weeks. Now she barely touches them. She briefly loved apples. Doesn't care for them now. Pears the same way. The one thing she's always loved is cottage cheese. But now we're having a new problem. She's constipated (already working with the dr to resolve). I feel so confused. I'm offering balanced, healthy meals with lots of variety and 99% of stuff goes in and right back out. But again, she does know how to eat. One time we got food at a restaurant and she had almost a whole chicken tender and loved it. I'm just feeling down in the dumps about it all. This whole "they need 1,000 calories a day" thing and now constipation on top of it... what the heck am I supposed to do ☹️
ETA: She has been EBF since birth and is still nursing 3 times a day and a little overnight. She was snack nursing throughout the day but the doctor said to cut that as it was possibly filling her up and making her not want solids. Now she just waits it out and tries even less food at meals knowing she'll get breastmilk. The doctor also doesn't recommend feeding therapy as she has the ability to eat food, she just won't. Doctor said "just continue offering food." 🙃 Which is what I've been trying....