My Giant Fruit Loop

Within the last few weeks Autumn has started doing something that she has not done in quite a while. She has gone back on a food strike. Now, unlike our last go around, she is not on strike everyday. This time it seems to be more of an every other day occurrence. One day she will eat everything that I put in front of her and ask for more, it is like I cannot fill the child up. The next day she will eat nothing but Fruit Loops and Goldfish, sometimes I can sneak some cheese in there.

I hate the back and fourth of this! One day I feel like Super Mom because she has eaten three well balanced meals and seems to be filled to the brim, the next day I feel like a Super Failure and worry that I am putting my baby to bed hungry. 

We have started trying to cut back on the amount of milk, juice and water that she drinks during the day, in case that is a part of the problem. I think that she has become so accustomed to having her sippy cup in hand, that she drinks just to have it.

I am also trying to mix up her foods and introduce different things (which can be difficult, she is a picky eater and not fond of trying new things). Due to her pickiness, I have been sticking to things that I know she will eat, but I think she may be getting tired of having a rotation of the same meals, I know I would.

Everything that I have read seems to chalk this up to the age, and says it is just another phase. Hopefully, these sporadic hunger strikes will end soon so my fear of my baby turning into a giant Fruit Loop will end as well!

Have any of you gone through something similar with your little ones? How did you get them into a more consistent eating pattern, or is this something that I am going to have to wait out?

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