my son (13 months) he started getting better at eating and will eat lot's of different varieties while being on prevacid and it seems to be helping. anyway today we go out and my daughter had appt with psycologist and she got dx'ed autistic,, but anyway i fed kids on the go. I gave my son milk and he didn't eat too much but i figured to keep him content i would give him liquids while the evaluation was going on. anyway he was drinking all the milk in his cup then went on to drink his sisters cup of juice. it's fine he drank all that but then he didn't want much lunch ok maybe he wasnt hungry so i gave him milk and he did eat some of his lunch but not much. now comes dinner he likes the food i offered him but refuses it and cries i say ok i'll give it to u later and not so much liquid cause i thought maybe he was filling up on liquids so he throws a tantrum cause he wants all the liquids and no food. so i try in 2 hours to feed him the dinner he cries and refuses again. i think he is getting filled up on milk thinking that's all he needs. I know toddlers dont need much but he is very strong-willed cause i go and give him the cup and he takes a sip then takes it out of his mouth and laughs after he wouldnt eat. he would rather starve. and it's not like he hasnt eaten this food before and for weeks he has been doing very well on eating all textures and we still are doing same thing giving him pravacid. so what would you all do? i wouldn't let this go on for a very long time cause he does need more then just whole milk that's what i think anyway and i dont force his foods on him if he isnt hungry then ok and i try different varieties. I just think he thinks ok i filled up on milk this morning and afternoon and that's all i need and he will look around room and avoid food now waiting for just milk.

Once they start milk and strictly table food, they tend to slow down.

I would keep an eye on his intake for a few days, and if it continues to be barely anything, I would call the GI..Maybe he is coming down with something? Or needs an increase in his meds to relieve pain?

Good Luck

he's getting prevacid 2 times a day and he was doing fine and eating i dont see any illness. if i see anything i'll call doctor but i think he is being stubborn.

So yesterday was just an example of what he tends to do on a regular basis? What kind of food can he eat (as opposed to those he will eat)? Are you giving him baby food? Maybe he's bored and ready for bits of table food? Or ready for some independence? You can give him something to self-feed while you spoon-feed. Or just give him his own spoon to play with.

I'm not sure if my suggestions are any good since my son refuses to eat AND drink, so I've never been in your situation.

Good luck!

he eats tablefood and babyfood and i do give him a spoon he has delays by the way he cant even self feed with hands he cant do the spoon either. he is going to therapy for that so i don't think it's that and yes this is always his behavior.

and now he is refusing everything holding food in his mouth and wont chew so if he is content to starve i cant force feed him

I would call the doc...It sounds like maybe he is in pain. Alot of reflux kids look at food as something that makes them hurt, perhaps that is why he is holding it in his mouth?

When we started introducing food my son was fantastic and ate everything, at about 9 months this all changed and he stopped eating, not an exageration he would have about an 8oz bottle a day and although I tried every meal he refused. This got a little better and now he is on the losec has become an eating champion. Again I am putting it down to reflux and the burning associated because the only thing that changed was an introduction to a new med.

Leigh gave me some useful advice re feeding. i have put the link below.
http://www.infantrefluxdisease.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10786

Maybe leave the cup until certain times if you think he is filling himself up and not offer it until he has eaten? Another thing is that the liquid may soothe him, thats why he likes it. You should bring this all up when you see the GI.

Hope that helps.

i know he eats babyfood like anything and liked cereal now wont even eat that but still eats yogurt and babyfood. anyway what do u mean by the liquid soothing him do u mean like he is attached to it or it makes his acid reflux burn feel better when he drinks?

oh another thing he keeps crying until i give him cup he will whine and cry in highchair and act like i have never given him a drink when i give him the cup. he was doing so great too just a few days ago with food i just dont get it :( the day we went out and he filled up on liquids first seems like is when this started.

This is hard Nikki cause it cold be either. What happened to us was that it was soothing to Parkers throat. We went trough a stage from 9 months where he ate nothing maybe a bite here and there) and he would only have one bottle. Now if I offered it at any other time he would refuse it. But if he woke screaming first thing I would give it to him and he wou'ld duck it sown so fast, that it looked like he was trying to put out a fire in there. So thats what I mean't by soothe. At any other time of the day he wouldn't take a bottle. and still won't.

My sisters kids fill up on drinks and don't really eat so i can see why you are worried. I would try and not give drinks until after he has finished having food, and hide it until then. Sometimes they go through stages too, you said you were giving meds for teeth? Teething will also bring about this kind of reaction.

Don't you just wish they could talk!?