MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 2

delain

Gillyx wrote: »

My child is a dustbin, 3 weetabix, a slice of toast, half of my slice of toast, 2 slices of melon all for breakfast. I'm gonna be £250 a week for food by the time he's a teenager :eek:

With prices going up like they are now just a loaf of bread might cost that then!

jenjade

creditcarddebt wrote: »

Hi, I have not posted on this thread before, a little bit of backround about us first - I have DD who will be 11 this year and DS who will be 1 next week, so a big gap between them! And because of this gap I seem to have forgotten how to do it all and at the moment DS1 eating habits are beginning to drive me crazy. I can't remember if we really had any problems with DD eating when she was young, we certainly don't have any now! I think she eats more than me. However, with DS he just does not seem to really eat anything! Now I know this flucuates with teething, but it is getting to the point where I just don't know what to do. He is still on 3 bottles of milk a day, 1 at breakfast, 1 mid morning before his nap and 1 at bedtime. This will be changed to cows milk within the next week, and I will plan on breakfast bottle and mid morning bottle changing to milk out of a cup and maybe a snack too with mid morning. He won't really eat much for breakfast, this is possibly because he has his milk first, but he spits out his cereal, barely touches toast or pancakes so inevitably he ends up having fromage frais and some fruit. At the moment he has beans on toast for lunch and has not really touched any of it, he won't let me feed him so he has picked at it with his fingers and is now banging the fork on the plate instead of eating. He seems to prefer the finger food at the moment, he used to love his roast dinners but now won't eat that either. It seems all he is really eating is fromage frais and fruit!! Any one got any advice? Do I need to be concerned?? Am really worried he is going to end up a really fussy eater, which in all honesty will not be tolerated as food time in our house is the same for everyone. I appreciate I can deal with that when he understands more about how he should be eating, but am just really worried. Maybe I am doing something really wrong this time round!

welcome credit card debt- SNAP SNAP SNAP :rotfl:
I have a 11 year old daughter (Jade) and Ellie is 15 months. I could have written that a few weeks ago. Ellie was drinking loads of milk eating sod all and only runny jars! :eek:

Here is what we did (feel free to ignore me) stopped the milk she only needs 14oz withing 24 hours. now Ellie has no milk at night (sometimes she has 2-3 oz at 5am) breakfast at 7 am 4 oz milk at 9am lunch at 12-1 and pudding a snack 3pm tea at 5pm then milk as much as she wants in the evening normally 3-4 oz after tea and 9 oz before bed.

I was hard for the first few days but we kept busy and it worked she was filling up on milk and not she eats mostly what I give her not to fussy!

be strong :A if you are still concerned speak to your health visitor xxxx

Bamama

I'll check out the link. Ty fluff. Basic reason is... it seems easier? Can't be doing with all this spoon feeding. And he can eat with us... doesn't sound very convincing to a "puree/jar family".

creditcarddebt

Jenjade, thanks for the reassuring words! Deep down I know he will eat if he is hungry, but it is really frustrating seeing meal times pass without barely a morsel passing his lips! I am really hoping that when he is off the formula then maybe his appetite will pick up.

fluffnutter

Bamama wrote: »

I'll check out the link. Ty fluff. Basic reason is... it seems easier? Can't be doing with all this spoon feeding. And he can eat with us... doesn't sound very convincing to a "puree/jar family".

Are you just preparing yourself in case of questions, or do you know that someone in particular is going to give you a bit of a hard time?

jenjade

I would try and reduce the milk before meals creditcardebt. I stopped giving Ellie formula in the day and that seems to have helped too

Bamama

I seem to be doing everything different to my whole family. I've already been quizzed on breast feeding... popular one atm is "how long will he be breast fed for?"

jenjade

oh Bamama ignore them or rise about it and give an ace answer like I was thinking until he is around 10 and when they say oh ok say years lol

Bamama

I just tend to say something like "I dunno... the global average is 7 years..." they just go oh and change the subject lol.

jenjade

How about some of these come backs Bamama

I plan to follow medical recommendations: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months and continued breastfeeding at least through the end of the first year. The World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding for at least two years and beyond as long as mom and baby want to continue."

"Oh, until he goes off to college."

"Its just until I learn to cook!"