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To ask if anyone feels pressure to feed their toddler cr*p?

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Orange89 · 03/07/2020 16:58

I've recently become vegan after 30 years of being a meat eater and self confessed cheese addict! My 2 year old has pretty much been vegan by default other than the odd fish finger and a tonne of cows milk for 6 months after I stopped BF before I educated myself of nutrition! 

Im finding the constant remarks about vegan diets exhausting. MIL is now suggesting my son may have an iron deficiency (he put a book in his mouth and she googled it!) and someone else just told me that not giving him chocolate is bad because their immune system can't develop! I mean come on.. no one cares about whether the milk guzzling / McDonald's eating kid is malnourished so why are they questioning my LOs diet! (He's perfect weight for his height btw). Has anyone else had experience with this raising their kids vegan?

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40andginger · 03/07/2020 18:22

I have a 3 year old who has been plant based for 6 months
She still eats chocolate but she gets dark chocolate she still eats cake but it's homemade cake!
I do get annoyed tho when I see other people's kids eating total shite all day every day yet people (mainly family) comment on the diet I have chosen for my daughter tho

But the same people also commented on my extended breast feeding also so I don't take too much notice

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