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i am exhausted- does anybody elses child eat this much or am i just moaning

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bambam30 · 12/12/2007 20:21

right first of all i know i should be grateful that ds has a 'healthy' appetite as my we have to more or less bribe ss 8 to eat but my ds is 2.2 and is eating us out of house and home and i am exhausted. today he woke at 7.30 and had 4 digestive biscuits ,croissant and 2 beakers of milk,and then later acheese and marmite sarnie and grapes i had a doctors app at 11 and so he had a choc [kinder egg] and when we got home a salami sandwich and juice 30 minutes later he came and asked me for some cheese and so icut up some chunks and gave him some with strawberries not even an hour later he came back and said eat soup and so he had 2 helpings of cualiflower and cheese soup with achunk of crusty bread had an afternoon nap and woke asking to eat he had a tea of new potatoes steak in a pepper sauce, peas mushrooms,parsnips and a yorkshire pudding and a cup of milk anhour later he came asking to eat ahain and so we baked choc chip cookies of which he ate 2 he then had some grapes and i sat down to watch news ,he had a bath and again asked to eat this time he had strawberries and cheerios with yoghurt he asked for more and ate that and now not even an hour later i have just given him a multigrain ryvita with marmite and cheese and yet another glass of milk is this normal i mean he eats everything and he isn't bored he is a very active little boy and i am happy that he eats but i feel like i am forever feeding him by the way he doesn't have any spare fat on him

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fibernie · 13/12/2007 20:53

You can get 100% fruit spread from health food shops (no sugar). I usually spoon a tiny amount of this into my porridge, so do the same for DD. She can eat two bowls but lives by the 'breakfast like a king, lunch like a lord, dine like a pauper' philosopy!

bambam30 · 14/12/2007 09:03

thankyou all of you for your tips i have to say we do only ever have wholemeal/granary bread and he does have porridge or eggs for breakfast sometimes tbh he probably had more bread and biscuits on that day than usual cos i not feeling 100% [not an excuse i promise-see threads on conception!]but i will take some of what you all say on board and really i am happy that he does eat

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ggirlsbells · 14/12/2007 09:11

my dd has a couple of friends (16 yrs old)like this,they are stick thin and never stop eating.

We took one on holiday with us last summer,I was astounded by how much she ate.Couldn't keep up.

Oblomov · 14/12/2007 09:18

My ds(3.10) eats a huge amount. And there is nothing of him. Sometimes I worry that he has got ..... worms, or something.
But we have to be grateful that they are such good eaters.
Ds goes to nursery and they comment on his 'heart appetite', but they are not at all concerned.
It might be nice for you to get some form of confirmation, such as my nursery gave to me ?

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