My baby doesn't like eating meals...

Well I haven't had an issue like that with my daughter and she is a year. Yeah when my daughter isn't hungry or is done eating she'll play with her food. Like putting it in and then taking it out. That is normally when I take the food from her and tell her enough then. When my daughter first started eating solid food I would put her bottle which is no a sippy cup with her meals and have her drink a little and then put food in her mouth. At bed time I don't care if my daughter wants a bottle or not when its bed time. I lay her down I let her cry it out after a few minutes I'll go in there calm her down and do it again. This is how I taught me daughter when me or her dad lay her in her crib its sleep time and you will go to sleep. Even if it takes 4 hours to do. We started that months and months before she was a year. After she goes to sleeps and wakes up in the middle of the night my daughter can have bottle. Toddlers will be toddlers so they will test your limits and its about setting them to how far your going to let your child go. she isn't a baby any more she is in her toddler years so its the start of the kicking and scream stage of life.

hi, i have a daughter too, she is 1 year and 8 months and i have same problem like you have, and i was advised not to feed her an hour before meal time, make her starve and give her solid foods when she asks for milk, i tried it though, she really will eat what you serve, but you have to be strict on it because if you don't she keeps doing the spitting out thing...but anyway, you have to be more patient the first weeks you are doing that because she already learn spitting out the foods and she will be doing it again and again, with that you have to discipline her, make her realize what she is doing isn't good. And about her sleeping manner, well the same with mine too, but i notice, when she gets tired from playing, she sometimes play the crying thing when she feel sleepy and ask for milk but i just let her cry, or when she gave much noise i give her alternative toys, some toys she don't often see or new to her eyes, then she will start playing on it, then when she is tired she just fell asleep without my attention. I don't know if it will do the same effect to your baby, but since our kids almost have the same problem with eating behavior and sleeping, it might help her too.