15 month old crying in high chair

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15 month old dd has always been foul tempered. Tantrums more than most 2 year olds and cries as much as a newborn somedays.

Its very hard going but I am trying to remain calm and see that she will grow out of it eventually.

Meal times are becomming unbearable though. She has never been a great eater. Still feel like Im in the process of weaning really.

She eats so little refuses to be spoon fed, do BLW but just nibbles on everything not really eating a proper portion of anything.

I worry that she wont be getting all the nutrients she needs. She loves cheese and will spoon feed herself fruit puree, eats toast but only small bits.

She does eat grapes too and crackers, jacket potatoes with cheese but again just not huge amounts.

She also likes fish fingers but never eats a whole one, maybe just half.

After 10 mins max in high chair shes crying to go play.

So what do I do?? Advice needed! Ive tried to be patient and take it slow but it is getting me down a bit.

She has 2 8oz bottles of milk a day.

I'd take her out the high chair. If I felt she needed more food I'd put some on a plate and sit her on the floor next to it.

I have tried this but she is so easily distracted she usually just ends up dropping it or walking off. She must be hungry though, surely her appitite cant be that tiny? She ate constantly before she went on solids, every 2 hours needed a bottle, day and night.

could you try cutting one of her bottles down, if she has 8oz first thing in the morning it might be filling her up too much for breakfast or taking the edge of her appetite at least?

Ahh, never thought of that

I will try it tomorrow and if shes still not eating then I can always give her a bottle later on.

Its just very hard to cook all these meals that she just shows no interest in. I will keep trying to be patient!

remember her portion size is only 1 tablespoon of each portion so would be about 3 tablespoons in all

doesnt look much but is the required food portion for that age

my ds calmed down alot when portion size got smaller he ate the lot and it wasnt so daunting i guess and i offered more if he ate it all but often refused

and yoghurt after dinner and was very content

i would imagine its more about being strapped down whe eatring thats the problem as its an age of wanting to be up and thats it

maybe do more finger food style dinners humous and pitta bread , sweet potatoe chips and something , egg and soldiers,

and let her just pick and try to distract while at the table i used to have a hand puppet and i would praise ds and puppet would spoon feed and i would give him another spoon to feed puppeet crazy but food went down distracted him long enough to eat his meal and as he got older his tolerance to settle became easier

lots of praise and encouragement and dont show your anxious as this will show and she too will become anxious good luck

Really bubbla, 1 tablespoon??? So really 3 table spoons per day? Or is that 3 tablespoons per meal? Ahh maybe she is eating enough then?

I like the puppet idea too, will deffo try that. She laughs hysterically at anything like that so could be a winner.

its 3 tablespoons per meal it goes up every yr so my ds is 3.6 so he has 9 tablespoons altogether

it never looks much but its appropiate for there needs

my ds at 12 mths used to eat adult size portions but was obviously on growth spurt one day he sarted eating only 1/4 of the meal i pancked tried everything got cross anxious then i was informeed of meal portion sizes and i dione this and cleared the plate i then automatically became less anxious at meals added extra spoonful or 2 for the puppet lol

but new he had eaten the required portion he found meal times better and so did i

DS got much better at sitting in the high chair since I started reading a book to him while he eats/I feed him.

Also some toddlers do seem to survive on very little. I think sometimes it's a case of lowering your expectations and trusting that they will eat as much as they need.

thats 9 tablespoons per meal altogether

I would say she eats about 2.5 table spoon per meal so maybe not under eating as much as Id thought. it just doesnt seem like a lot. She is so active.

Thanks for the answers.

it doesnt seem alot but is completely adequate for there age she seems to be doing just fine then

i forget how it was explained to me our stomachs are the size of our fists and look at there fist you wills ee how small so to have more than that would be over eating and stretching there stomach

however it was explained it worked with ds and the portion size some days he'll want more some days he wont want as much but at least its normal size portion no worries of over feeding there

also i found if he was tired i would need to do dinner hour early as the later it got his appetite would vanish if he had early dinner i would do toast before bed

x

hi thisi, i dont know how you feel about videos. my baby who is 15 months old too watches baby einstein while she eats. and i also give her 2/3 small plastic toys. with video + toys she will sit for her whole meal which is not a short one.

as a child i hated how my mom filled my plate. i still can lose my appetite if someone gives me a really full plate. the idea of reducing the portion seems good. they will ask for more if they are still hungry...