{"id":163388,"date":"2025-03-29T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/blw\/what-do-i-do-if-ava-doesnt-eat-dinner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T16:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T16:52:20","slug":"what-do-i-do-if-ava-doesnt-eat-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=163388","title":{"rendered":"What do I do if Ava doesn&#8217;t eat dinner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>My daughter Ava (3yrs old) was 100% #babyledweaned she inspired me to share her journey of baby Led Weaning to the world to inspire and to encourage others out there that there are other options to start solids rather than spoon feeding pur\u00e9e and parent baby control. Anyway\u2026. from day 1 of Ava\u2019s solids journey I have trusted she makes most her decisions about food\u2026. a lot of people ask me<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cWhat if she doesn\u2019t eat dinner?!\u201d <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cDo I Offer something else?\u201d <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cDo I give her dessert?\u201d <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Ok here is a prime example tonight what I do\u2026. Ava isn\u2019t feeling the best today and she didn\u2019t want to eat dinner tonight at all, she said she wasn\u2019t hungry, all she wanted was water\u2026 this usually happens to Ava when she isn\u2019t feeling her normal self or if she has had lots of snacks throughout the day\u2026 how I reacted? I don\u2019t make a fuss, i don\u2019t offer any other foods or supplements or milk, I simply put her dinner in a container and save it for tomorrow (for me or her)\u2026. tonight I got her down from her chair and bathed her and put her into bed, yes on a empty tummy.<\/p>\n<p>It is important for Ava to listen to her body and to understand and \u201cfeel\u201d her limits about food control.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I trust<\/strong> if she ever asks for more food, she can have more food<\/p>\n<p><strong>I trust<\/strong> if she doesn\u2019t want to eat dinner \u2013 that is OK <\/p>\n<p>We are not going to get angry or try and persuade or encourage her to eat if her body is doing such a great job at regulating her food intake. It is OK for her to go to bed on a empty tummy, this is the way Ava will learn about \u201cwhat empty or what full feels like\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baby Led Weaning teaches a lot of life lessons<\/strong>, it\u2019s not all \u2018glits and glamour\u2019 and your toddler is not going to eat every meal you put in front her\u2026. it\u2019s more about teaching the importance of \u201ctrust\u201d, trust our our babies and toddlers can make decisions about foods and control their intake\u2026. learn to have a positive relationship with food and meal times\u2026 teach our babes and toddlers that foods have different textures and comes in different forms: foods can be sweet, savoury, crunchy, smooth, salty, sour etc \u201cfood gives energy to fuel our body\u201d<br \/>#babyledweaning #babyledweaningideas #babyledweaningtoddler<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter Ava (3yrs old) was 100% #babyledweaned she inspired me to share her journey of baby Led Weaning to the world to inspire and to encourage others out there that there are other options to start solids rather than spoon feeding pur\u00e9e and parent baby control. 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