I'm just so stressed out about it, I feel like crying. Chaunda who turned 1 August 15th, all of a sudden stopped eating and has become extremely picky. Chayse who is 2.5 years old had this problem starting at 7 months of age and still has problems so not sure why I'm stressing out so much about it.
A small history: Chaunda was on Neocate not because she was alergic to milk, but because the Dr. recommended it due to her reflux. She is NOW on milk and has been since 11 months old. She didn't care for the neocate and became the BEST EATER a mother could wish for. Baby food, finger food, suppers we eat, you NAME it. I LOVED IT!!!! Than it put her on whole milk and she gradually grew to love it and that's where it all began (or coincidently).
I have even recently reverted to letting her just make a HUGE mess in the house and eat walking around...that's getting tiring. sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. it's not that she never eats, just has became extremely fussy lately (NO MATTER WHEN OR WHAT) I feed her. There is only like 2 things that I usually have luck with. Scrambled eggs and alphabet noodles with chicken broth. sometimes fruities, cheese, pretzils she'll snack on. She was a HUGEEEE fruit lover, but not anymore. waaaaaaaaaa
What is EXTREMELY frustrating is EVERY morning she has a bottle...usually 4-6oz. Than for some reasons she seems to be more fussy through out the morning. I can barely keep her up 3 hours some days in the morning. I try NUMEROUS times and NUMERIOUS foods (all gone to waste) both in her chair and letting her just walk around with it. the fussiness really gets to me and my 2.5 year old. She woke this morning at 6:45am as an example. I think she had her bottle 7am ish or so. Than come 9:30am ish, she's so fussy I just don't know what else to do. So I give her a bottle and GUESS what she drinks it, lately a WHOLE 7 OZ. That's only 2.5 hours after her first bottle and it's been like this for a LONG time. Some days she won't eat much at all and other days come afternoon and supper time, she might do a little better than in the morning.
I just don't even know how to handle it. I don't know how often I should feed her to find that WINDOW of opportunity. I don't know if I should try a MILLION things to find just the right food she is in the mood for.
Did I do something wrong to have 2 children behave like this. I still have problems with my 2.5 year old. How come others have normal eating children. My babysitter said another person she takes care of...has a bottle in the morning and one at night and that's about it. Although, I have to admit, the way Chaunda has been drinking a lot of milk in the morning and at night, usually during the day she doesn't drink too too much. maybe a snack or two (milk that is).
I can't force her to eat you know and what am I suppose to do when she is so so so so so fussy and want's another bottle of milk. You can only take so much of the fussiness.
I just feel like crying that I'm going through this again.
She slept last night from about 8pm..actually it was 8:10pm by the time she fell asleep until almost 7am. some nights she only sleeps 10 to 10.5 hours. Most days she can barely stay up 3 hours with out desparately needing a nap. Also 1ce or 2ce a week, she'll end up stretching until late morning or very early afternoon before nap. Every afternoon, I make sure even if it takes using the stroller or car ride, to get her to take a cat nap of some sort and I try to put her to bed every night at 7:30pm. Her morning nap usually is from 1 hour to 2 hours and her cat nap is usually from 20 minutes to 40 minutes. These are averages.
