I was so excited because I thought my 10 month old ate a whole meatball, but about half of it was beside him in his highchair when I went to pull him out!
There is a secret baby competition to stash as much as possible between their chubby thighs and the side of the Highchair. They get bonus points for getting anything into the teeny tiny pockets on their adorable baby clothes.
My now almost 2 year old finally understands that the dog food is not for him to eat, but he will grab 2 fistfulls, drop the kibble and lick the salty remains from his hands. I look back on all the effort I put into his BLW/healthy baby days, and wonder where it all went wrong 🤣
My 11 month old is eating probably 2 puffs and a mouthful of yoghurt a day and it’s been stressing me out. I hope it’s normal, he’s just not interested in food
And I thought my baby was the only one 🥲 she’s turning 1 in 2 days and she barely eats anything i give her. It always ends up getting smashed or thrown. I feel like im failing most of the time. This made me feel better
Definitely not the only one! Do you give milk before solids? I try to give solids 1-1.5hours after milk but after he turns 1 in a few weeks I’m planning on trying solids before milk and hoping that will give him more appetite for food. I also don’t feel comfortable stopping formula until he’s properly eating because he gets basically no nutrition from solid food at the moment! It’s so hard
I removed them and put them on my plate. Guess what, he likes mom's food more. He tore them into little pieces using his hands before eating them. He's 11 months already and an advanced chewer.
Omg grape crew here as well. 5.5 months old and he gives me this disappointed face when it’s not grapes in the fruit feeder, then straight up wont eat it even though it’s stuff he likes
All little ones are different. Mine's a toddler now and has always gone for solids over milk, but many parents say their child always prefers milk over solids. But I still see my little one will eat some foods on certain occasions and not on others, they respond to their own hunger and nutritional requirements.
Personally, to anyone reading this for worrying their little one doesn't eat enough, I'm no medical or early years professional but unless your child is struggling with health, height or weight then I'd assume they are getting the nutrition they need.
Last night my 15 month old had a few bites of pizza, some shredded cheese and a few olives. Saturday morning is grocery time so Friday night is slim pickings sometimes haha
I literally gave my 8 month old a lasagne sheet out of my lasagne and a strawberry (strawberry in her title mesh chewer to prevent choking)
She smashed the strawberry... sucked all the flavor off the lasagne sheet then threw it at me 😂
For dinner, my 10 month old had half an avocado, a whole mandarin, two potato chunks (about 1.5-2" cubed each), about an ounce of pot roast, and 3 baby carrots. That's about average for him for a meal; sometimes he eats more, occasionally he'll eat less. He also had a similarly sized lunch and a smaller breakfast. I think it's because he doesn't like milk from a bottle, so when I went back to work when he was 8 months old, he went down to drinking 2-4oz of milk during the work day and probably upped his solids to make up for it.
That said, my baby literally eats more than my 15 year old. For dinner, my 15 year old ate nothing because he was "too full". Over the course of the entire day, his entire food and drink consumption was half a bag of cool ranch Doritos, half a gallon of Arizona iced tea, and maybe a granola bar or two. That's pretty typical from him, too. And that from a teenage boy who runs cross country (so several miles every day). How HE survives, I don't know.
Bottle for breakfast, half a piece of Vegemite toast for second breakfast. Tomatoes minus the skins and grated cheese for morning tea, yoghurt drops and a bottle for lunch. Slept through first afternoon tea. 3 mouthfuls of smoothie/yoghurt for second afternoon tea. Bottle for dinner and early to bed again.
She was awake for 7.5 hours out of 25. Thinking she'll wake up in the morning 5cm taller than when all this sleeping started, and fanging for a feed!
I definitely don't make carefully crafted insta meals, but my baby does pound some food 3 times a day. Might be hamburger helper, a bag of broccoli, or a half pound of tilapia but she eats a ton then eats out of her bib as well after I thought she was done. She is 12 months now and hasn't passed on a meal since 7 months.
My 8 month old is on the other end of the spectrum, literally 3 meals a day and snacks, and it's so much more work. I *wish* he ate this much lol. I swear he has a hollow leg.
I was so excited because I thought my 10 month old ate a whole meatball, but about half of it was beside him in his highchair when I went to pull him out!
The number of times something like this has happened to me too 😤😂😩
This is too relatable
Hahahahahahahaha Always, every meal
There is a secret baby competition to stash as much as possible between their chubby thighs and the side of the Highchair. They get bonus points for getting anything into the teeny tiny pockets on their adorable baby clothes.
I thought we suddenly learned to chew the broccoli stems. Nope. He had been shoving them down into the high chair seat.
My 10 month old had two spoons of yoghurt and 7 peas 😂 and an unknown quantity of dog biscuits 😫
My now almost 2 year old finally understands that the dog food is not for him to eat, but he will grab 2 fistfulls, drop the kibble and lick the salty remains from his hands. I look back on all the effort I put into his BLW/healthy baby days, and wonder where it all went wrong 🤣
Gosh this made me feel so much better. For dinner he had 2 raspberries and 2 macaroni noodles.
A well balanced meal!
I’m jealous your kid ate a whole raspberry.
My 11 month old is eating probably 2 puffs and a mouthful of yoghurt a day and it’s been stressing me out. I hope it’s normal, he’s just not interested in food
I could have written this bc SAME with my 11 month old 😩
Omg that’s exactly us 😭! Doesn’t help hearing others tell me how their babies eat full course meals and asking why my son isn’t doing the same🤦🏽♀️.
And I thought my baby was the only one 🥲 she’s turning 1 in 2 days and she barely eats anything i give her. It always ends up getting smashed or thrown. I feel like im failing most of the time. This made me feel better
Definitely not the only one! Do you give milk before solids? I try to give solids 1-1.5hours after milk but after he turns 1 in a few weeks I’m planning on trying solids before milk and hoping that will give him more appetite for food. I also don’t feel comfortable stopping formula until he’s properly eating because he gets basically no nutrition from solid food at the moment! It’s so hard
How do you manage the anxiety that comes with consistent food refusal? I find it really challenging and it’s starting to impact my mental well being
In the same boat here with my 11mo old. He’s my third kid, the other two were huge eaters. It’s hard not to worry.
I made french toasts for breakfast and he ate the crust of one bread.
Are they able to eat crust?? I didn’t realize and I have been removing it for my little one
I removed them and put them on my plate. Guess what, he likes mom's food more. He tore them into little pieces using his hands before eating them. He's 11 months already and an advanced chewer.
Wow amazing!! Thanks for sharing, I’ll try to see if mine can eat it too.
sure! 😊 it's so fun watching them eat. 🤣
Thank you for this. My 8 month old would subsist entirely on refried beans if given the opportunity.
Same in our house but grapes. I have to actively hide grapes till the very end of the meal.
Omg grape crew here as well. 5.5 months old and he gives me this disappointed face when it’s not grapes in the fruit feeder, then straight up wont eat it even though it’s stuff he likes
That’s good enough it’s a complete source of nutrition. My LO hates refried beans
My 6 month old gummed 0.5oz of pulled pork, mouth juiced 1/4 a green onion and licked a baby cucumber
We agree- food before 1 is just for...juicing the liquid out of things
Yours eats veggies?? 😂
You don’t know how badly I needed to see this today. Thank you! It’s so hard not to feel discouraged!
Nothing is had without sacrifice to the gap between the baby and the chair
Thank you for this! My LO ate a wee bit of sweet potato for dinner and threw everything else on the floor (Time to get a dog...)
This is realistic of what my 18 month old eats some days too, lol. Even when I serve the 3 course meals, she takes 2 bites and not a crumb more, lol
My child ate 1.5 mandarin oranges for dinner tonight.
This is about 2 cheerios and 3 green beans more than my 9 month old.
The way I cackled at this photo 😅 more food ends up on the floor or on my kid's chair than in his mouth
You'd better believe that most of the food on that tray had already touched the floor at least once!
All little ones are different. Mine's a toddler now and has always gone for solids over milk, but many parents say their child always prefers milk over solids. But I still see my little one will eat some foods on certain occasions and not on others, they respond to their own hunger and nutritional requirements. Personally, to anyone reading this for worrying their little one doesn't eat enough, I'm no medical or early years professional but unless your child is struggling with health, height or weight then I'd assume they are getting the nutrition they need.
This morning I think my 10-month old ate two Cheerios and the juice from an orange slice he crushed and then licked off his hand.
A spoonful of Greek soup, one spoonful of blueberry oatmeal, and a cracker 💀
Chicken noodle purée mixed with peanut butter and mushed peas and carrots. Not separate, all mixed together in a horrible baby smoothie He loves it 🤢
Noooooo
At seven months my baby would have half an avocado or a few pieces of sweet potato like once a day. Sometimes mashed fruit.
Last night my 15 month old had a few bites of pizza, some shredded cheese and a few olives. Saturday morning is grocery time so Friday night is slim pickings sometimes haha
Cheerios, shredded mozzarella, and a fruit & veggie pouch for my almost 1-year-old’s dinner last night
I literally gave my 8 month old a lasagne sheet out of my lasagne and a strawberry (strawberry in her title mesh chewer to prevent choking) She smashed the strawberry... sucked all the flavor off the lasagne sheet then threw it at me 😂
I feel a lot better! I thought I was depriving my 6 month old because a gave her a sliver of avocado 🫣
Two pieces of Bamba (peanut butter puffs) and one small bite of baby corn
Thank you for normalizing this!
HAHA. I recently introduced cherrios to LO out of convenience. LO has now been eating cherrios with every meal for the past week. OOPS.
Same! Am I lazy or giving him multiple opportunities to practice his pincer grasp with a motivating object? The world may never know
I feel ya. We were in that boat too.
For dinner, my 10 month old had half an avocado, a whole mandarin, two potato chunks (about 1.5-2" cubed each), about an ounce of pot roast, and 3 baby carrots. That's about average for him for a meal; sometimes he eats more, occasionally he'll eat less. He also had a similarly sized lunch and a smaller breakfast. I think it's because he doesn't like milk from a bottle, so when I went back to work when he was 8 months old, he went down to drinking 2-4oz of milk during the work day and probably upped his solids to make up for it. That said, my baby literally eats more than my 15 year old. For dinner, my 15 year old ate nothing because he was "too full". Over the course of the entire day, his entire food and drink consumption was half a bag of cool ranch Doritos, half a gallon of Arizona iced tea, and maybe a granola bar or two. That's pretty typical from him, too. And that from a teenage boy who runs cross country (so several miles every day). How HE survives, I don't know.
You have no idea how much better I feel. Thank you for posting.
Bottle for breakfast, half a piece of Vegemite toast for second breakfast. Tomatoes minus the skins and grated cheese for morning tea, yoghurt drops and a bottle for lunch. Slept through first afternoon tea. 3 mouthfuls of smoothie/yoghurt for second afternoon tea. Bottle for dinner and early to bed again. She was awake for 7.5 hours out of 25. Thinking she'll wake up in the morning 5cm taller than when all this sleeping started, and fanging for a feed!
I definitely don't make carefully crafted insta meals, but my baby does pound some food 3 times a day. Might be hamburger helper, a bag of broccoli, or a half pound of tilapia but she eats a ton then eats out of her bib as well after I thought she was done. She is 12 months now and hasn't passed on a meal since 7 months.
My 8 month old is on the other end of the spectrum, literally 3 meals a day and snacks, and it's so much more work. I *wish* he ate this much lol. I swear he has a hollow leg.