one year old and solids

[Marie]

nip...Hi. My Bethany is a year old now. For some reason I have been a
little anxious about her eating habits (or lack of!) She nurses still
many times a day and night. She will not eat breakfast, she will eat a
few bites for lunch and dinner. Altogether she may eat half a cup's
worth of food a day! She gets a wide variety of foods and does hve
some favorites, she just oesn't seem to need food. I know all about
picky eaters, as I have 2 older children. But at her age I am
concerned. The older kids were eating half of what I ate at a meal at
this age! Shouldn't Bethany be eating more, or can she still be living
off my milk for awhile more? She seems fine otherwise.Thanks,
Marie

[CY]

I don't think it's a big concern unless she's not gaining weight. My DD is
20 months and still hardly eats a thing other than mama milk! And I think
she probably eats more than I really think she does, she just spreads it out
so much throughout the day!!
"Marie" > wrote in message
...
> nip...Hi. My Bethany is a year old now. For some reason I have been a
> little anxious about her eating habits (or lack of!) She nurses still
> many times a day and night. She will not eat breakfast, she will eat a
> few bites for lunch and dinner. Altogether she may eat half a cup's
> worth of food a day! She gets a wide variety of foods and does hve
> some favorites, she just oesn't seem to need food. I know all about
> picky eaters, as I have 2 older children. But at her age I am
> concerned. The older kids were eating half of what I ate at a meal at
> this age! Shouldn't Bethany be eating more, or can she still be living
> off my milk for awhile more? She seems fine otherwise.Thanks,
> Marie

[Herself]

Marie > wrote:

> nip...Hi. My Bethany is a year old now. For some reason I have been a
> little anxious about her eating habits (or lack of!) She nurses still
> many times a day and night. She will not eat breakfast, she will eat a
> few bites for lunch and dinner. Altogether she may eat half a cup's
> worth of food a day! She gets a wide variety of foods and does hve
> some favorites, she just oesn't seem to need food. I know all about
> picky eaters, as I have 2 older children. But at her age I am
> concerned. The older kids were eating half of what I ate at a meal at
> this age! Shouldn't Bethany be eating more, or can she still be living
> off my milk for awhile more? She seems fine otherwise.

there are lots of kids out there who survived mainly on bm for a while.
Let her take the cue...you don't have to force her. When she's ready,
she'll let you know.

--
'Tis Herself

[iphigenia]

Marie wrote:
> Shouldn't Bethany be eating more, or can she still be living
> off my milk for awhile more? She seems fine otherwise.Thanks,

My son didn't eat *any* solids to speak of until 14-15 months. He's fine : )

--
iphigenia
www.tristyn.net
"i have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
i do not think that they will sing to me."

[Diana Curtis]

I just keep thinking that since Meg (2.5 in Dec) isnt eatting lots and lots
of food yet that at least shes getting good Bmilk. Shes happy, healthy,
active.
Diana, happy to see so many familiar names still here.

--
http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44

"Marie" > wrote in message
...
> nip...Hi. My Bethany is a year old now. For some reason I have been a
> little anxious about her eating habits (or lack of!) She nurses still
> many times a day and night. She will not eat breakfast, she will eat a
> few bites for lunch and dinner. Altogether she may eat half a cup's
> worth of food a day! She gets a wide variety of foods and does hve
> some favorites, she just oesn't seem to need food. I know all about
> picky eaters, as I have 2 older children. But at her age I am
> concerned. The older kids were eating half of what I ate at a meal at
> this age! Shouldn't Bethany be eating more, or can she still be living
> off my milk for awhile more? She seems fine otherwise.Thanks,
> Marie

[Chookie]

In article >, Marie >
wrote:

> picky eaters, as I have 2 older children. But at her age I am
> concerned. The older kids were eating half of what I ate at a meal at
> this age! Shouldn't Bethany be eating more, or can she still be living
> off my milk for awhile more? She seems fine otherwise.

My goodness! I have never encountered toddlers who eat half an adult portion
-- not even DS, who is a great eater. If Bethany is enjoying her food, I
don't see any need to worry.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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[Dawn Lawson]

Chookie wrote:

> In article >, Marie >
> wrote:
>
>
>>picky eaters, as I have 2 older children. But at her age I am
>>concerned. The older kids were eating half of what I ate at a meal at
>>this age! Shouldn't Bethany be eating more, or can she still be living
>>off my milk for awhile more? She seems fine otherwise.
>
>
> My goodness! I have never encountered toddlers who eat half an adult portion
> -- not even DS, who is a great eater.

Are you kidding? ;-)
My 13mo has on a couple of occasions resulted in my eating a makeshift
sandwich for supper when he's scarfled the lot of what I made to feed me
and a small......

And yet he's 10%ile for weight. *sigh* not for lack of trying, on his
part!

Dawn

[Marie]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 03:13:20 GMT, Dawn Lawson
> wrote:
>Are you kidding? ;-)
>My 13mo has on a couple of occasions resulted in my eating a makeshift
>sandwich for supper when he's scarfled the lot of what I made to feed me
>and a small......
>
>And yet he's 10%ile for weight. *sigh* not for lack of trying, on his
>part!

Wow! He must be really active to work off the calories? My oldest
daughter was picky around this age but she *did* eat. It was the
middle daughter who was the pig (only taking after her mother). She
was always a hefty little thing.
Marie

[Dawn Lawson]

Marie wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 03:13:20 GMT, Dawn Lawson
> > wrote:
>
>>Are you kidding? ;-)
>>My 13mo has on a couple of occasions resulted in my eating a makeshift
>>sandwich for supper when he's scarfled the lot of what I made to feed me
>>and a small......
>>
>>And yet he's 10%ile for weight. *sigh* not for lack of trying, on his
>>part!
>
>
> Wow! He must be really active to work off the calories?

*g* he just started crawling at about a year, just started really
walking this weekend. I've NO idea what he does with it all, half an
adult portion is pretty common, and some days he will easily put away 4
sausages (the thin ones, breakfast sausaages here, about 1.5cm
diameter). Usually eats about 3/4 to a cup of hot cereal (oatmeal or
mixed rolled wholegrains) and at least a half a slice of toast (with
marmite!) for brekkie, after nursing just before we get up. Certainly
not a chubster, though. Rather pixie-ish, in fact.

Dawn