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Noodleface
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Ritley
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It's actually not bad. They all sleep mostly through the night, each one eats in about 20 minutes, rarely cry for anything but being hungry or sometime just to be held. Worst part is trying to go anywhere.
It just takes almost all of our free time, haven't had a chance to do really anything but take care of them
It just takes almost all of our free time, haven't had a chance to do really anything but take care of them
My son last night ate an adult portion of Mac and Cheese with equal parts pees and corn. Fucking housed that shit like he had not eaten in a week. He was literally digging in his seat for shit he dropped when he finished everything. I'm surprised he wasn't licking his tray.
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Appreciate the thread title change haha.
Cheers for having kids that actually eat that's for sure. My friend brings his 16 month old daughter over and she's skinny as a rail, won't eat anything at all they said.
Cheers for having kids that actually eat that's for sure. My friend brings his 16 month old daughter over and she's skinny as a rail, won't eat anything at all they said.
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Maybe he hit a growth spurt. We went away for a weekend with our son once when he hit one. He ate all day long starting by waking us up saying he was hungry. He had 4 eggs for breakfast and was eating whole adult slices of pizza every 2 hours(Venice for carnival). He would throw a fit if we tried to share any of his food. He was just over 2 at the time. When we got back home he could reach up and grab stuff he couldn't just 2 days before.
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All my kids eat well except my youngest, and it continues to be a cause for concern. He is on 2 meds for ADHD, and they're both appetite suppressants, so he's just never hungry. We take him off one of the meds on the weekends, and he eats a little better.
He's in the bottom percentile for height and weight, and his doctor thinks his not eating is partially a cause of this. I make food he loves, the more protein the better says the doc, so this morning, for example, I made biscuits and gravy. He actually packed it away pretty well.
I think we're just going to have to cave and start making a bunch of extra meals for him. He eats until there is no immediate hunger, and then has no motivation to eat more. So, if I have five or six little meals ready to go through the day, perhaps he will actually take in more calories.
Anyone have any further suggestions to cram food into the little man?
He's in the bottom percentile for height and weight, and his doctor thinks his not eating is partially a cause of this. I make food he loves, the more protein the better says the doc, so this morning, for example, I made biscuits and gravy. He actually packed it away pretty well.
I think we're just going to have to cave and start making a bunch of extra meals for him. He eats until there is no immediate hunger, and then has no motivation to eat more. So, if I have five or six little meals ready to go through the day, perhaps he will actually take in more calories.
Anyone have any further suggestions to cram food into the little man?
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I'm sorry Dirk that you are still going through that. I wouldn't know what to do if either of my kids just didn't want to eat. This is same problem as before, right? Did he stop liking the protein shakes? At this point, I suppose eating "healthy" isn't a concern, but even bad for you stuff like cheeseburgers, or whatever, he's not into, I think you were saying?
Shonuff
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I've come to the conclusion that all kids love pizza. Mine was in the crib, and she would sing "deesa deesa deesa" all day. She'd even added in la la la's and woah woah woah's to her song. It took a year to figure out, as her speech got better, that she was singing pizza all day. I think she sang about pizza until she hit Kindergarten.
Cad
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Talk to your Dr. about a growth hormone prescription, or look into counterbalancing meds that will increase appetite. If he doesn't eat a lot in the growing years he WILL be a short scrawny dude. Which isn't the end of the world but its not great either.
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If he'd eat cheeseburgers, I'd give him 20 a day. Yeah, it's the same as before, and he doesn't like protein shakes. He recently got a spacer put in to help with a tooth that had to be pulled, so he can't have the gatorade protein bars he used to (sticky caramel in there). Looking for a substitute.I'm sorry Dirk that you are still going through that. I wouldn't know what to do if either of my kids just didn't want to eat. This is same problem as before, right? Did he stop liking the protein shakes? At this point, I suppose eating "healthy" isn't a concern, but even bad for you stuff like cheeseburgers, or whatever, he's not into, I think you were saying?
Yeah, I don't care that he'll be a small dude, that's fine. I just want him to be healthy, and I don't want his size to hold him back, which it's doing in hockey. Again, not the end of the world. I'll look into the supplements, that was going to be my next step, thanks!
Remember before we had kids, and we all wanted to have kids that were exceptional? Now we have these kids, and I'm just hoping he hits average for weight.
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Holy shit that is hilarious.
Putting my son to bed tonight he spent at least 5 minutes babbling after I asked how his day was. If he stopped I'd ask what else happened and he'd start right up again. It was absurdly adorable and I'm glad I had my phone in my pocket. It was dark enough that he didn't notice the phone.
chaos
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We've been taking our daughter off the meds entirely on the weekend, because we can and also I just don't like fighting with her over it. Her appetite is non existent during the week but on the weekend she makes up for it.
Our doctor mentioned that there was an antihistimine he could prescribe that would increase her appetite if it got to be a critical problem. So far we've avoided that and we didn't want to do more medication, but we did feel better having the option.
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We've talked about taking him off both meds on weekends, but the problem is that one is a non-stimulant that has to build up in your system to be effective, so it wouldn't be any use if we took him off Saturday and Sunday. It would take until Wednesday to be effective again.
Sigh. Kids are simple.
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Yesterday the kiddo made me a proud daddy. He was playing on the floor and bee lined it for one of our dogs fluffy toys. He grabbed it and immediately hustled over to our dog and placed the toy at his feet and then went back to playing on his own. Hard not to have a big smile after seeing that.
Mrs. Gravy
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I have seen periactin used in kiddoes with eating issues...I don't know if that's the same med that was suggested but it's a possibility. (My background is in SLP, I work as a Service Coordinator Supervisor. I serve people who have a variety of developmental disabilities and often numerous medical conditions and sometimes co morbid mental illness.)
chaos
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I never got the name of the specific drug, we managed to get her appetite under control before it became an issue. She still doesn't eat much and I have to monitor it carefully. And she has visibly thinned out, part of that is she has grown a bit taller, but part is weight loss. Honestly she was starting to get chunky from all those midnight gorge fests when she would wake up and eat everything that wasn't locked up, so it isn't a big deal. It gets old though, sometimes it is frustrating like FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK WHEN WILL THIS END and then you realize oh yeah, never. And then you get some perspective and you remember how bad things were versus the relatively minor inconveniences you have to put up with now, like tracking her eating.
Cad
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