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What Do You Do If They Want To Keep Eating

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Quootiepie · 10/12/2006 14:32

DS had 3 weetabixs, 2 bananas and was still looking for more this morning... should I have given him more? Should I have only given him the origional 1 banana & 2 weetabix?

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TinsellyRhino · 10/12/2006 14:49

how old is he?? did you offer some water incase he thought he wanted more but was thirsty?

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Quootiepie · 10/12/2006 14:50

8 months & offered water

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TinsellyRhino · 10/12/2006 14:52

erm, well I think that I would just allow him to eat the amount he wants. maybe he is going through a growth spurt

2quokkasandapeartree · 10/12/2006 14:58

my ds1 would eat and eat and eat. Let him eat as much as he wants. He was a chubby little thing until about 2 and now he's really slim.

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Quootiepie · 10/12/2006 15:04

you think? I feel mean now

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lornaloo · 10/12/2006 15:20

ds has never eaten anything near that amount in one go...he's 14months old. He has a very small apetite for food, somehow he wears 2 year old clothes... totally baffeling. Anyway..yes i'd just let him eat as much as he wants. Don't feel mean though, he would have let you know if he was really upset that he couldn't eat more. He may have just had one more mouthful and then decided he'd had enough..don't feel bad.

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Quootiepie · 10/12/2006 15:23

that would have been 4 weetabix and 3 bananas at least! Blimey. I better send DH out for tomorrows breakfast - I think we will run out

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whensantagotstuckupAITCHimney · 10/12/2006 15:25

that's an impressive breakfast... if my dd's anything to go by then he'll have days like this and then other days when he's not so hungry. i always ust assumed it was a growth spurt (plus with a carb load like that i looked forward to her having a loooooong nap).

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Quootiepie · 10/12/2006 15:29

yeah, some days he doesnt eat his breakfast... I just got scared hed start eating more and more until one day we literally would have to give him like 10 weetabix and about 5 pieces of fruit... By the way, he's very good at eating his weetabix by hand it's his favourite

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lornaloo · 10/12/2006 15:35

maybe thats why he wanted more...he just enjoys feeding himself. Prob hadn't realised he was full yet...takes 20 mins doesn't it... sure I've read that somewhere.

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Quootiepie · 10/12/2006 15:37

he was eating the banana like an adult [proud emoticon] I guess ill just keep giving him more if he wants it then

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lornaloo · 10/12/2006 15:38

Ds sounds animal like compared to your ds.........eating a banana like an adult...am very impressed.

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Quootiepie · 10/12/2006 15:40

I think he thinks he is an adult... hes so cute!

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BahHunkBug · 10/12/2006 15:40

Don't give him more than one banana a day - too much potassium or something (plus constipating, esp with all the weetabix fibre).

Can you give him more milk? He's still only v young.

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Quootiepie · 10/12/2006 15:40

either that or all the adults I know are like animals

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Quootiepie · 10/12/2006 15:41

ahhh, conflicting advice! Gave him milk after & before... you think I should limit solids then?

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lornaloo · 10/12/2006 15:42

I get confused with fibre...I always thought fibre made you go....it can make you constipated too?

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Quootiepie · 10/12/2006 15:43

this is bearing in mind alot ends up down the sides of the highchair aswell though....

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lornaloo · 10/12/2006 15:47

Quootie, he sound like he has a very healthy appetite and enjoys eating, imo this can only be a good thing. I have a struggle to get ds to eat more than a few spoonfuls of food at a time. He feeds himslef now and he is eating alot more than he was at one point. I think bhb ment that you could perhaps give less fibre.

BahHunkBug · 10/12/2006 15:52

Milk first till they're one, IMO. Milk's the most important thing in their diet for them until they're 12mo.

He does sound like he's taking to food v well though - obv keep giving him it to explore!

whensantagotstuckupAITCHimney · 10/12/2006 15:55

you're breastfeeding, aren't you quootie? are you feedin him efore breakfast? dd gets a bottle about half an hour before.

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Quootiepie · 10/12/2006 16:56

yep. He gets milk just before breakfast, max. 1/2 an hour between. Im really thick, what can I give for breakfast thats not so much fibre?

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TinsellyRhino · 10/12/2006 17:01

yoghurt, mashed pear?

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Quootiepie · 10/12/2006 17:03

what yogurt can they have at this age? Not sure how id do yogurt BLW style... Isnt pear fibre aswell?

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whensantagotstuckupAITCHimney · 10/12/2006 17:08

've been mashing banana in yoghurt and freezing it... dd loves it. or we just load up a spon and hand it over, and definitely was doing this at months. two spoons, load one up and wrestle the other one out of their hands.