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Is he eating enough at 14MO?
« on: August 08, 2010, 21:26:43 pm »
DS has been early waking for a while now on and off and I am getting some help with naps and routine elsewhere but I keep wondering if it has anything to do with his eating and is he getting enough because when he wakes early he always wants to eat (BF) even though in the night he will settle without eating. I will post a typical day's food and would appreciate any thoughts on if he is eating enough. He is is 10.66kg at nearly 14MO and average height, but he has been 10.5kg for at least 5 months now and has droppped from the 91st centile to the 50th. I know he is still a healthy weight and he is super active so I am not worried so much about the lack of weight gain, just checking the food isn't affecting his sleep.

So a typical days food is
BF 10mins
B: 3/4-1 egg  and 1/4-1/2 toast OR 1/3 banana and 1/4-1/2 a slice bread with honey/marmite
S: raisins and cheerios or fruit - handful each
L: 1/3 pitta and houmous and 2 cherry toms OR beans and toast OR 1/4-1/2 veggie pancake with cheese and 1/2-1 satsuma
S: yoghurt and/or 2cm square savoury flapjack or handful fruit
D: 1/3 chicken breast OR same amount meat or fish with carbs (pasta/potato/rice - eats very little most days) and dessert spn veggies
If he eats very little dinner he might have some muesli cereal made with 3oz milk before bed
BF before bed 20mins (with some suckling so not nessarcerily more milk than am)

He usually eats poorly for one meal in the day but eats the other two well. It is not always the same meal. More often breakfast or dinner are the worse ones.

These amounts are what he actually eats, but I do offer more so i think he must be getting what he wants but sometimes he will eat extra off someone elses plate between meals and then I think he would be hungry if he hadn't seen them eat because I wouldn't necessarily have offered.

What do you think?

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Re: Is he eating enough at 14MO?
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2010, 21:47:16 pm »
His food intake looks very similar to my DD's, she eats well at breakfast and sometimes dinner but lunch is very hit and miss. She really can't have a snack after about 3.30 or she eats very little at tea time. She's a big girl - 25ish lbs/ 91st centile and her day goes something like

Breakfast -readybreak - 20g of powder + 4oz milk + 0.5 fruit puree pot then 6oz bottle.
sometimes toast a bit later will eat 0.25/0.5 a slice.

Lunch - eats equivalent to 0.25 of a ham or cheese spread sandwich + cucumber/ baby tomato + small yoghurt, eats way less on at least 4 days a week.

Afternoon - sippy of milk (drinks between 2oz and 5oz, usually lower end) banana/apple. Will wolf down anything sweet if offered ::).

Tea - depends, pasta she will eat a good handfull (my handfull!) plus whatever veg peas/sweetcorn etc probably 1 dessertspoon size. Other foods she will eat probably a dessertspoon full or 2 of baked potato or rice etc. She will ususally have another yoghurt and throw some fruit off the table ::)

Bed is another 8oz bottle which she usually has at least 6oz of.

She will do what your LO does when she sees others eat - always wants some. DH and I eat after the kids but before they go to bed so she has tastes of what we are having too - even if she has eaten really well at tea. I don't think it's really that she is still hungry, she just wants what everyone else has.

I do think some days she eats next to nothing but she is sleeping through and sticking to her growth curve so she is obviously getting what she needs. I just keep trying to offer a variety and hope she eats enough/ something!

Not sure if that helps at all really - but I am reassured that some one else her age eats about the same!

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Re: Is he eating enough at 14MO?
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2010, 22:13:19 pm »
Thanks, that is helpful. Oh and I meant his handful not mine. Not sure why he is not good at carbs. Maybe it is how I cook it!

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Re: Is he eating enough at 14MO?
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2010, 19:49:57 pm »
Hi KM - just came to check out your post. Reading it through it doesn't scream out as being that different to Cammie's intake and I think he's eating well!!! HTH !
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Re: Is he eating enough at 14MO?
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2010, 19:57:46 pm »
Great thanks

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Re: Is he eating enough at 14MO?
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2010, 20:01:35 pm »
Also sounds to me like he's eating well/enough. My DS also wants his bottle right upon waking and has been waking early. BUT I'm pretty sure it's more developmental than anything else. He also generally has one poor meal a day (usually breakfast here), one decent one and one pretty good one.
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Re: Is he eating enough at 14MO?
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2010, 20:09:06 pm »
Yeah I think his EW is to do with his sleep routine and am getting some good advice on that elsewhere. I do think his eating so early is to do with habit more than anything and the fact he is EW he wants comfort. Just wanted to be sure.