17 month old being denied solid food

But I just thought I'd have a dig in support of our Aussie friends who are faced with empty shelves of baby formula. It seems to be an on-going trend
There were empty shelves of everything due to the floods and food not getting through by truck EllanVannin

Is there a different problem as well with baby formula? (My DGC are older)

Well, I would keep feeding him little snippets of your meals if he obviously enjoys it.

I doubt if the follow-on milk is any less nutritious than cows milk. Probably more so.

Does the little one go to a toddler group, or a playgroup?

Hi Lavazza - I don’t think you automatically get notifications of replies to your posts here- you just go onto Gransnet again and look. Sorry you seem to have had a bad introduction to the forum, which can be very helpful. It’s just that sometimes a new person posts, lots of members take time to respond and then they are never heard of again and people feel they have wasted time.

Responding to your posts about the mainly milk diet, I think the person they might listen to would be nurse at local health clinic. You could also pick up leaflets about toddler diet and leave them around.
I have some similar concerns about grandchildren living in another country who drink a lot of bottles of milk a day and aren’t hungry for proper food, but I can’t do anything about it. They seem healthy enough and I assume the parents will eventually stop giving them bottles.

Madgran I think we can safely assume that the DIL has very good English language skills, bearing in mind that on a previous thread Lavazza1st stated that the DIL met her now husband while acting as his translator/interpreter.

BTW, you don't get notifications when someone has posted on a thread that you either started or have commented on, you phone/tablet/pc would probably go into meltdown.

You actually have to return to the thread and look.

HTH.

You mentioned in a previous thread that you DIL was an interpreter/translator, surely a specialist skill that is in demand, and could be done from home? In between mixing bottles of hidden formula, of course.

Lavazza1st can your DIL speak good English? If so I would suggest asking her about Chinese culture and child rearing ...in a genuinely interested way! This might help you to understand better what her thinking is in relation to your grandson

Also I am wondering how your son feels about this approach as presumably he was brought up in UK and has awareness that what you describe would not be the way in the UK?

Yeah they just came to England two weeks ago. They only just registered with a GP and don't have a HV yet. It IS a crazy situation and I WISH it was fiction but it's not.
Sometimes the truth is madder than fiction, unfortunately.

I am new to the site, don't know how it works on here and didn't get any notifications so I didn't know anyone had replied. Thankyou for notifying me, I will go and take a look!

Doesn't sound anything like a school kid!

But I just thought I'd have a dig in support of our Aussie friends who are faced with empty shelves of baby formula. It seems to be an on-going trend !

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Lavazza, are you sure your DiL is Chinese? The Chinese are like the Italians (with a name like yours I assume you have some Italian in you) they dote on children and spoil them and cuddle and handle them all the time.

Also a baby of 17 months fed only milk would be undernourished, failing to thrive and would have needed medical care by now so that Health visitors and Social Services would now be involved, and you do not mention them.

I assume you did not complete your Creative Writing course.

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Chinese and their formula, Mmm. Empty shelves of it in Oz !

Crazy post ???

My Chinese Malay friends were very excited when their toddler child , still in nappies, tucked into duck feet!

Lavazza1st as you haven't yet had the courtesy to acknowledge the responses you received on the first thread you posted, also asking for advice, I'm sorry to say that I think you have a bit of a cheek starting another one.