Need Advice for Picky Eater

[Cecilie1200]

If he remains on the same growth curve with each well child check, then you shouldn't worry about it. Continue to be persistent...eventually he may try new foods, but if he is growing then he must be getting what he needs.

I suspect he's in a growth lull right now, but I'm very unhappy with those hard, white stools.

I think we're going to try bagel bites with a smear of cream cheese tomorrow morning and see how that goes.

I didn't see that about the white stools. How white?

You might try a little prune juice.

"White" like "I'm getting nothing but milk" white.

Good news. He ate half a bagel smeared with cream cheese this morning. And for the most part, the dog hanging around under the high chair, hoping for scraps, was disappointed.

 

[Cecilie1200]

why are all the men giving advice on babies ....yall dont know mal about mal on a good day..back off boys...


here is what you do....go to the store...get a grinder...

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the 13 buck one will do....now when you cook a meal...simply grind small portions of it...and put on a plate for the kid...in reality....at 14 months, he should be eatling well...he can handle soft veggies..
most likely you have him eating a poor diet...if he is cubby at 14 months.....is the child walking....he should be..and that should have ran the fat off him by now...

was this child breast fed...i will bet not. but that is my bias and i digress...feed the child real food....that yall eat...unless yall are eating poorly...

His diet has been quite healthy, and until this month, he was an enthusiastic eater. He's just clearly decided he wants to feed himself. However, he doesn't even begin to have the ability to manipulate a spoon on his own.

And yeah, he's learning to walk. He doesn't do it unsupported yet, preferring to creep around furniture still, but you can tell he finds the idea fascinating.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Anything that smalls that bad and is that watered down...ugh. Once their taste buds are online and operational, why would they want that stuff? I made a lot of my own anyway, with the two at once it saved a ton of money.

But at 14 months I couldn't imagine my kids sitting still and letting me spoon feed them that stuff, they were long since ready to want to be like Mom and do it themselves. I guess all kiddos are different, I only have the twins and they've always been independent little things for their age. But if he's showing his independence and wants to feed himself now you might as well just resign yourself to at least a certain level of mess. The spirit is willing, the flesh needs practice.

Hey, mess is what we have the dog for, right?

I don't think we're going to try a spoon just yet. I'm sticking to stuff he can eat with his hands.

 

[Xenophon]

Don't listen to them, I'm telling ya, gruel is teh way to go.

 

[Cecilie1200]

I have been the worst pickiest eater my entire life. Some of it is mental and some of it is taste.

Nothing my parents tried worked. My father once took me to the doctor, the doctor gave me a pill and said "This will make you want to eat everything you see" (LOL) It was a digel pill (antacid). My mother would give me pudding and loads of milk because that was all I ate. I think this made it worse! IF the Kid is hungry he will eat...filling him up on stuff like bagel bites and junk like that is going to hurt more then help.

When he gets older if he is still picky....seriously get a shrink for him because mental hang ups over food are very hard to overcome.

When I say "bagel bites", I mean regular bagels I've cut into bite-sized pieces. I get the multigrain ones with real fruit baked in them. Add some cream cheese with more fruit, and you've got all four food groups covered.

 

[Cecilie1200]

someone stated, make his food, put in front of him, if he doesn't eat it he doesn't. Don't make a big fuss over him not eating too. You're giving him attention for bad behavior.

Make a PBJ (crust-less) for lunch, put on plate, give to child, if he throws it, sit there and screams, or whatever, do not respond! If he eats something healthy then respond showing your approval.

Your kid will not die if he doesn't eat for a few days. WHen he is hungry he will eat!!!!!!!!!!! Remember that, parents all too often think their child is going to die if they go without food for 2 or 3 days. I can go a long time without food. Fluids is another thing!

I'm guessing, your child is filled up with liquids, he is getting full on it, with food it is work for him to eat to get full, the fluids is fast and easy with same result in his little mind. One small glass of milk in the morning, Afternoon and evening...and I mean small glass. I actually wouldn't give them milk at all for the first few days...I would give water with their meals.

Look all I am saying is if my parents did some of these steps I stated, I would have been so hungry I would have ate the food and it would have ended up no big deal later in life.

Now, eating for me is a CHORE! I'm serious, I eat only because I have to eat to stay alive. I have a long list of hang ups, and this is why my Husband cooks and not myself. I don't enter the kitchen at all when he cooks because anything can pop in this little mind to turn me off on what he is cooking.

Quinn almost never cries or screams. If he doesn't want to eat something, he screws his mouth shut into a tiny hole and shakes his head back and forth. When he's done with the sandwich, he starts playing with it. I guess he likes the flapping motion it makes when he waves it.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Don't listen to them, I'm telling ya, gruel is teh way to go.

Oddly enough, gruel was his favorite food until just recently. You could get that child to eat just about anything if you mixed it into his cereal. Now . . . no cereal for him.

 

[Xenophon]

Don't listen to them, I'm telling ya, gruel is teh way to go.

Oddly enough, gruel was his favorite food until just recently. You could get that child to eat just about anything if you mixed it into his cereal. Now . . . no cereal for him.

He's standing up for his right to gruel!!

 

[Skull Pilot]

If he gets hungry enough he'll eat.