A mother has blamed doctors for her two-year-old's son eating habits after he refuses to eat anything but biscuits and now weighs the same as a three-month-old baby.

Anastasia Shields, 23, from Northway in Gloucester, says she has tried everything to get Harvey-Jay to eat, including sneaking high-fibre milkshakes into his hot chocolate.

She has hit out at doctors after her son, who weighs just 15lbs - spent 10 days at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and medics failed to diagnose the problem and told her he may just be a fussy eater.

Mrs Shields said: 'Something needs to be done before we end up putting him in a coffin. He weighs less than a three-month-old baby. It's just ridiculous.'

'Half of the doctors in hospital hadn't read all of his notes before they came to see us. The whole time we were in there, it felt like we were doing the same things as at home.'

Mrs Shields and her husband Andrew claim to have tried everything to get him eating wholesome and nutritious food but he will only eat biscuits, including fig rolls and chocolate digestives.

They are occasionally able to trick him into eating cookie cereal because he thinks he is eating mini biscuits.

Mrs Shields said: 'He will just play with food in his mouth and that's it. I'm at the end of my tether. I don't know what to do.

'Maybe it's an oral phobia. He never really put things in his mouth when he was baby, which was very unusual.

'In his first month alive he lost a whole pound, it took us months to get his weight back up to what it had been when he was born.’

The mother-of-two said she was disappointed that doctors have done little more than suggest her son is just a fussy eater.

She added that Harvey-Jay's weight loss has led to his skin become stretchy, a pale complexion and he is now prone to becoming ill more easily.

Harvey-Jay was not born prematurely and although he was a light baby, weighing 5lbs 1oz, he was not critically under-weight. 

The couple, who have a healthy five-year-old daughter called Lilly, are now considering the offer of sending him to a special pre-school in Cheltenham which may help him.