Sorry, my first reply on this was a bit on the emotional side, and this one is likely to be as well. Having had two children with different food issues, it makes me a bit emotional for people to jump down on the mother for something she could never have solved on her own. it doesn't excuse her lack of finding help for her daughter however.
My son who is now 16 had Apraxia, he didn't learn to speak until he was 5 years old. he spent pre-school and kindergarten in the slow kid classroom because of it. He was able to understand speech fine, and he tried to talk but it wouldn't come out right. He spent from the ages of 2-6 in intensive speech therapy to overcome his disorder. He used sign language in the meantime, which helped him not get overly frustrated with being unable to communicate. Along with the speech problems came food problems. He wouldn't eat cereal with milk, only cereal with yogurt. He only likes Hamburgers plain with ketchup on the side to dip in. He only likes campbells chicken noodle soup (don't try to fool him with generic either!)
We've worked him up to eating some more things now, but his main go to is still a plain hamburger. I think he humors me more than he tries to humor his dad, he'll try new stuff for me because I pester him about it. He'll almost always say something is ok, and then not finish it. he's a good kid, polite, and doesn't want to be a bother or be rude and say he doesn't like something I make for him.
My daughter was allergic to everything, we didn't know it until she was almost a year old. She was tested for the top ten allergies in children, and was allergic to 4 of them. Milk, Soy, Corn, and Peanut.
That doesn't leave much on the list of things she could eat, plus by this time she had it in her head that eating hurts. Her first doctor would tell me "she won't starve herself"... yet she was skinny and had a distended belly like an Ethiopian. The doctor told me she was doing just fine, I told the doctor she was nuts and scheduled an appointment outside of the "group death" network, where we finally got the answers. She had an almost constant ear infection until she was 18 months old because of the milk allergies, her formula was this nasty stuff that was horrendously expensive and smelled disgusting. After she got off the formula she had goat's milk. It took her YEARS to catch up, and until her auto immune disease popped up last year, she was always under weight. (5'8" and 115 lbs)
Let me tell you, there is nothing like standing in a grocery store looking at the label of every can or box of anything you buy trying to find stuff without Corn Syrup in it. Having your child only want things she couldn't have.
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