My little fussy eater

Renee's been acting really weird the pass few days. She's not eating as much as she used to. In fact, she's hardly eating at all.

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Usually, she finishes a whole bowl of porridge/rice and has second helpings even. The pass few days though, she's been taking in only like 3 - 4 spoonfulls of whatever it is I'm feeding her, and then she starts screaming, or pushing the spoon away, or fidgeting in her chair. She just refuses to eat.

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So, at first, I thought maybe she isn't hungry.

But the minute I take the bowl away, she demands for biscuits.

And she can eat up to 10 pieces of biscuits in a go. Just like that.

So how could that mean that she isn't hungry, right?

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And this went on for 2 days and so I decided enough is enough.

Afterall, she cannot be just eating biscuits and nothing else.

And what kind of mummy would I be if I allowed this to continue?

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So today, when she started her nonsense again, I refused to give in to her and I forced the food down her throat. She started screaming and crying but I held down both her arms with one hand, and forced her mouth open with the spoonful of whatever I was feeding her with with the other.

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Her tears and mucus and whateverelse body fluids that could come out of her came out and spilt into her bowl but I still continued scooping and feeding, scooping and feeding, scooping and feeding. In the end, she finished the entire bowl and that was when I released her arms and took her off her high-chair.

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And I had to do this like at both lunch and dinner time.

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I felt so bad, seeing her crying and screaming but I just had to make her finish her food instead of just getting full on biscuits.

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Is this considered child abuse?

Sigh....

I'm trying to be the best mummy I can be but sometimes, she makes it so hard for me.