timing of meals
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Topic: timing of meals
Posted By: BeLoved
Subject: timing of meals
Date Posted: 31 March 2010 at 1:22pm
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In addition to my previous post about refusing dinner, I just wondered what sort of timing of meals everyone else has for their toddlers who have 1 nap during the day.
My 15.5 month old DD has recently transitioned to 1 nap (somedays we still have 2) and I am wondering if the change to meal times has also contributed to refusing dinner. At present DD wakes at 7.30 and has breakfast approx 8, then a bottle at 10 and then a sandwich or sushi & fruit around 11.30. Nap at 12ish up at 2ish and then another snack/meal about 2.30 and dinner at 5-5.30 then bedtime 7ish with a bottle. I am thinking either DD is too tired or too full at dinner time and I need to change something but not quite sure what, any ideas would be great. TIA! |
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Posted By: noodle
Date Posted: 31 March 2010 at 1:30pm
the timing of things sounds about the same as Rory is doing, what if you swapped lunch and dinner around IYGWIM giver her, her dinner as lunch and her sandwich/sushi and fruit as her dinner? sounds weird but could work....sorry dont really have any other suggestions 
good luck hun, I hope you find something that works for her soon ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: FreeSpirit
Date Posted: 31 March 2010 at 1:34pm
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At my house we have...
breakfast 7.30am Snack 9.30am Prelunch 11.30 Nap 12 -2pm Large snack 2.30 Light snack 4pm Dinner 5-5.30ish Supper 6.30 Bed 7pm. She just eats, and eats, and eats.... ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: palomino
Date Posted: 31 March 2010 at 3:41pm
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Our plan if its any help
Wakes 6 has breastfeed and sleep till 7 cereal and fruit 7.30 crackers or something snacky (haha like the term prelunch) 11ish nap till 2ish something filling, sandwich, scrambled eggs etc... 2.30 Dinner 5 rasins or yoghurt 6 BF 6.30 Bed 7 I had to cut down on lunch or dinner was going overboard. If he gets hungry inbetween lunch and dinner i give him some rice crackers or something thats not going to fill him up for hours. |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 31 March 2010 at 3:52pm
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We have something like this..
Big Breakfast around 8.30(he wakes at about 8 most days), he has a banana, raisons and toast for breakfast with water or some milk. Snack at around 10ish, usually just a biscuit or some crackers etc Lunch at about 12 and he has sammies, and fruit Nap from 1-3 or 4 When he wakes he has a drink and snack, then he has dinner around 5/5.30 and in bed by 7 most nights. Thats just a rough layout,. he has all sorts of snacks throughout the day. but he is more of a big breakfast, big lunch, small dinner boy, with lil snacks in between, he LOVES food!! and he has his waterbottle all day. He went through a patch of not wanting dinner as well, and somedays he still doesnt want dinner, so I dont push it, i just let him be and those nights he wont eat dinner, he has a big big breakfast the next day lol. ------------- |
Posted By: mandz
Date Posted: 31 March 2010 at 4:05pm
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We are the same here. Quite often Oliver has barely any dinner as he is just not interested. Mostly I think because he has such great lunches at daycare!
But even on the weekends he is not really interested in dinner. He has big breakfast though either porridge or weetbix currently. Snacks on fruit/crackers etc for morning tea and afternoon tea. Cooked meal at daycare but a variety of options on the weekends. We aim for dinner to be about 6pm but it can sometimes be closer to 6.30pm. Then bed by 7pm. He has never once woken up in the middle of the night hungry but like Sheza said - will have a big breakfast the next day if he really didn't eat much the night before  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Zack Robert Henton - 29th December 2009 |
Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 31 March 2010 at 7:15pm
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My DD is only 13months, but she went to one nap a day at 10months. She has her nap late morning so ends up having a late lunch. Timings are:
Up around 8am. Breakfast 8:30-9am. Morning tea around 10:30am. 200mL soy milk then nap starting from 11-11:30am and sleeps for 2-3hrs. Lunch soon after she wakes, 1-2pm (occasionally as late as 3pm!) If lunch is late then I'll give her some yoghurt at the end of lunch, but if it's earlier, I'll save the yoghurt to closer to 3:30pm for afternoon tea. Dinner 5pm 200mL soy milk then bed 7pm. I find that DD eats ALL her dinner now without fail, whereas when she was having lunch earlier she often didn't finish her dinner (go figure 
(she still wakes 2-3 times in the night but just has water now that she's stopped BFing) ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: kiwisj
Date Posted: 31 March 2010 at 10:04pm
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Heidi's day sounds really similar to Callum's, only difference being he has breakfast around 7.30am.
I often give him "dinner" at lunch time (usually whatever we had the night before or something from the freezer) and if he eats really well then I give him an egg and toast for tea and some fruit or yoghurt. Some days he'll eat a massive lunch AND tea (and big snacks as well, go figure) and others he doesn't seem bothered at all. ------------- SJ Callum - Dec 2008 Daniel - Oct 2010 |
Posted By: whitewave
Date Posted: 31 March 2010 at 10:35pm
| If you think she may be too tired to eat dinner, you could try pushing her nap out to about 1pm, and see if that makes any difference? |
Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 02 April 2010 at 9:54pm
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From memory at that age Jakes day was like this:
Up 6.30ish 7/7.30 breakfast 9.30/10 Morning tea 11.15/11.30 Lunch 11.30/12 Nap til about 2/2.30 Cup of milk when he woke 3.30 Afternoon tea 5 Dinner 7 Bottle and bed. ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |