Ok i could use some advice (other than waht my elders are giving me: to give more milk to the little one). My 18 month old is really picky. She doesnt eat more than a few bites of whatever we give her for her meals. I give her a 9 oz bottle of milk in the morning around 6:30ish and then one more before bed time. Gettting a bottle of milk at 6:30 means she wont eat anything till after her nap which is at like 3 pm. If she does eat, its a few bites of this or that. Not a proper meal. She looks healthy MA but i always worry that she isnt gettin enough nutrients. Is it wise to give her small meals? i generally try to avoid snacks since she isnt a big eater so i want her to eat well at meal times but sometimes i will give her a cheese stick or a piece of fruit. She doesnt even finish those. I guess she likes so snack on different varieties of food.
Is it ok to give her little bits to eat at various times? I dont want to encourage her to snack all the time and not eat well at meal times. Any ideas? Any experiences you care to share about your own picky child/neice/nephew etc?
Both MIL and my mom thinks i should give her more milk before her nap so she is full but i am a bit vary of filling her on milk and i am afraid she wont eat even what little she eats now.
Re: experienced mommies, please help me with my picky toddler
wow.. she sure can go hungry for a long period of time :o
but you are right… milk only takes up way too much room for a baby to want to eat anything else…
how bout trying to give her less milk when she wakes up… and then give her a light bfast… it could again be in milk.. like rice krispies in milk or cheerios… or whatever hse likes to eat… and if she likes variety.. then give her just half a slice of break, a pce of apple and some soft boiled egg.
not all toddlers can take large meals at one time… my son was like that for a long time.. i would let him eat throughout the day… not snacks though… proper food.. just in intervals. he would eat that fine… its only just recently that he can sit with us and eat a full meal… i thought the day would never come but i guess you have to leave them alone for a bit… i let go of a lot of things i would read on how to bring up a healthy child.. screw all that… i just focussed on what my son wanted and went from there… he would run around and eat.. then he started to walk around.. then came the sitting phase.. and now he is ok with an adult chair for meal times… though he still likes to stand and eat sometimes… if its something that is really chewy and boring…
your ideas of snack time like cheese stick or fruit is fine … i would have said space out her meal times but if she can survive from 6.30 am to 3 pm on just milk.. thats the only thing i can think of.. limit her milk intake. liquid does take up a lot of space… and just go solid totally… keep milk for mealtimes. a slurp here and there.. and if she is done with her meal.. then let her drink however much she wants …
does she have a fav dish or ingredient ? what kinda food do you feed her?
what does her ped say? i know here they dont bother if the kid is active meaning they wont care until the kid is way off teh charts and well.. just lying down lifeless… only then are they considered un healthy.
