Eating Issues-URGENT

Hi girls

Thanks for the replies. I am not too worried, just freaked out the other day. She actually ate really well today.

I'll just relax about it, give her what she actually eats, have food available to snack on, still give her her milk and vitamins and see how it goes.

She hasn't actually lost any weight yet. She still weighs exactly the same. But she got taller, so she LOOKS thinner to me.

Have a lovely mother's day tomorrow!

LONG post, but please stick it out and read, I need advice URGENTLY.

I am having eating issues with my 22-month-old. She was breastfed till 14 months, ate VERY well, was a chubby baby and we never had issues. She ate by herself, we fed her, everything went.

NOW, the past few weeks, she just doesn't eat ANYTHING. In the beginning, I didn't really worry about it. I don't like giving her too many options. If she doesn't eat, then she'll eat later, was what I figured. I also thought if she doesn't eat over the weekend, she'll eat when her nanny feeds her during the week.

She used to LOVE mince, she now spits it out. She'll take literally two bites of rice, then she's DONE. She doesn't taste the fish fingers, chicken, meat, mince, even mince in a can that is soft in a macaroni. I don't know, she SMELLS it or something!

She basically only eats carbs and only a few bites now and again. She'll chew on cheese and have little bite-size viennas, but it mostly ends up in the dog's mouth. Sometimes she'll take a sniff at brocolli and cauliflower with cheese sauce.

She does like fruit, so I try and give her that as a snack, rather than biscuits or something like that.

I am starting to get a bit worried but still don't want to make a fuss about it. I have tried distracting her by reading a book, walking behind her with a spoon while playing, leaving her to eat herself, given her Tomato sauce (which she LOVES) with chips and fish fingers etc but she only licks off the tomato sauce! I try and feed her while we bath (yogurt or mash). It used to work. Now, she takes two bites and she's finished.

She says "dis jekka" (it's nice) for MEDICINE! She'll eat my lip-ice and drink freaking bath water but she won't eat!

WRT sweets. She never gets sweets during the week. She gets chips or something sweet over the weekend when we have some. She gets a rooibos tea sippy cup with lots of full-cream milk at bedtime, one when she wakes up and one when she goes to nap at 11am. There's NO WAY I can cut that out, she DEMANDS it.

I am a bad eater. I have always been a "grazer", eating all the time but never really eating a big meal. I am trying to establish good eating habits in her. I have even started eating the freaking meals, just so that she can see me eating with her. I sit down with her mostly over lunch, if I can nip home.

Her dad is ALSO a bad eater. He is very picky and will stuff his face with bread after refusing to eat the veg. We don't sit down for dinner, because Nienke and I are mostly alone. So we sit at the counter. Her in her chair and me next to her.

I am also giving her Minamoo or something like that-a vitamin supplement that apparently enhances your appetite, since yesterday.

WHAT MUST I DO!? I don't want her to lose her little baby rolls. She is growing much taller and already looking thinner.