It gets worse...
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Topic: It gets worse...
Posted By: Kelpa
Subject: It gets worse...
Date Posted: 23 April 2008 at 5:36pm
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If there was one thing I could always count on with Blakes eating its that he would scoff HUGE HUGE bowl of vege mash, gravy, mince full of everything....plus homemade some pudding (think why he so big as has religiously eaten that since 7 months)
HOWEVER.............thats all changing...for dinner tonight and last night he has had 4 grapes....4 segments of banana and one piece of bread with jam.... What goes on in these little peoples heads?  -------------  
 
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 23 April 2008 at 6:09pm
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I wish I knew. Michaela was about 20 mo too when she started eating like a bird and refusing meat and other food she used to like.
Maybe because they're not constantly growth spurting anymore they can grow through longer stages where they don't need as much food (totally an uneducated guess - but it sounds pretty good). Then suddenly she growth spurts and I temporarily become a short order chef at mealtimes to satisfy her hunger -------------  
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 23 April 2008 at 6:47pm
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I have no idea! Mine scoffed 4 pieces of raisin toast and 2 bananas between them for breakfast yet for dinner they ate one tiny piece of broccoli each and two tiny pieces of carrot then threw the meat and spuds back at me. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 23 April 2008 at 7:52pm
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Tonight mine ate a handful of crunchy potatos with tomato sauce then poured water all over her plate soaking everything else and started splashing.
She then had a couple of spoons of yoghurt but became disinterested and decided to dip her foot into the bowl instead. *grits teeth in an attempt to smile* They really are something aren't they. -------------
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 23 April 2008 at 9:39pm
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we have the same from time to time....
we have had a few bottle only nites recently....but she got her appetite back...it comes and goes...Im not fussed on Ellas tho as she eats like a horse at DC, has been demanding two bowls of ricies each morning and is one bottle over what she should be getting again....ugh!!!! she eats so much all day long that come dinner I am not suprised she cant fit anymore in... |
Posted By: Shorty
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 10:18am
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Wow BS my boy is the same....2 bowls of cereal and 2 pieces of toast and then is ready for fruit at morning tea.
DC have a cooked meal 3 times a week so I am not fussed if he wont eat much....as long as he is eating during the day.  for breakfast today was 2 "DRY" weetbix, bleugh he scoffed them!
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 10:47am
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yeah we get the report from DC -
morn tea - fruit and muffin / crumpet etc lunch - veges and mince / pasta or baked beans etc afternoon tea - sammies, biscuit etc.... heaps of water and two bottles at DC and one morn and night! and the brekkie.... dinner - BAH not concerned after ALL she eats.... |
Posted By: nicolaann
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 1:43pm
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Alex hasn't eaten a proper dinner in over 3 weeks now. I'm hoping he will start again soon. Basically he will eat what he wants, when he wants... and not what I want, when I want. So he grazes all day, and is living on fruit, dairy and chips and crackers!! Hopefully the meat and vege will be wanted soon!! Toddlers... who would have them!! ------------- Nicky, Mum to Alex (5) & Sophie (3) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 24 April 2008 at 3:39pm
Miss M hasn't been eating a proper dinner either...I believe she is practising the "air diet" during this time. She has always eaten well enough at breakfast and day care so I'm not too concerened. If she doesn't eat it we just take it away and don't give her anything else!! Especially not when she asks for a "bippy" (bikkie)!!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kelpa
Date Posted: 26 April 2008 at 3:02pm
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I have had a girlfriend who has been a Nanny for 15 years staying. An awesome one at that..... Right clued up about these babies & toddlers.
So our new plan is Blake now gets what we are having....served like we are having..a spoon and fork and can go for gold..if he eats it..great - if not .TOO BAD...he can go without. No more making different meals..will do meals earlier in day so he is ready to go but no more Dilly dallying around and offering toast and whatever cause I think he is starving... YAY...FEELS GOOD!(til the Next one comes along!) -------------
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Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 26 April 2008 at 3:51pm
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It works, I had to do that ages ago. Michaela had been sick a week earlier and had learned if she threw a spaz we'd skip straight to dessert (usually fruit and yoghurt). I was being played so one night, when she refused what she'd been given I let her get down from the table and basically put her to bed without dinner (DH thought I was soooo cruel). She slept the whole night but woke up starving the next morning and didn't offer me any trouble for a couple of months following. -------------
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Posted By: fairsk8
Date Posted: 26 April 2008 at 8:18pm
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Nicola, I too have a grazer who grazes all day long. So now I prepare a lunchbox every morning with what I want him to eat during the day, including lots of raw vege, and when he says he is hungry, he is allowed to choose an item from the lunchbox and sit down and eat it. This way I know what he has eaten during the day as I am the one who puts the things in and I can see how much he has eaten.
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Posted By: Southlandmummy
Date Posted: 26 April 2008 at 9:35pm
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Ive got this also... but ive got copycats too.. What one does the other does also.. They both get what we eat at the table with us but one decides to throw his plate on the floor with tea in it still so the other does it... and thats it.. Its not like its nothing new they eating so they go without till breakkie
I just ignore them now as they know how it goes... ------------- Cindy - Princess and Princes Samia Isobel Joy born 9th September 2008 Spencer Graeme John born 29th May 2006 Kaylin Gavin Robert born 19 December 2004 |