How much does your 1 year old eats per day?
My boy is a fussy eater and I feel like he doesn’t eat as much as he should, he used to be very chubby as a baby but since he started solid around 7 months he has become lighter because he hardly eats, I feel bad about this. Any one in the situation and what do you do to improve this?
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I'd start by getting him weighed to know whether this is actually something to worry about or not. Lots of children eat like birds but still gain weight well. As long as he's on or near his centile it's not really anything to worry about, if he's really dropping I'd be looking for ways to fortify his meals with more calories, a dietician should be able to help. I'd contact your health visitor or go to a weight drop in and go from there, they should be able to offer advice right there if he is dropping centiles.
My little girl isn’t as much a fussy eater but just gets fed up of food quickly, I find the only thing she doesn’t get fed up of after a couple mins is pasta stars that we spoon feed to her if we give her any food to hold she’ll just chuck it straight away and most the time not even bother to try it, she doesn’t drink a lot of milk either , she is slow to putting on weight but her health visitor had no worries if it’s more of a problem as baby gets to 18 months then maybe look into it abit deeper, I definitely find spoon feeding does helps my daughters favourite that’s she’ll eat all of all the time is sweet potato and spinach pasta sauce with pasta stars, it doesn’t have too much of a taste and is on the sweeter side so might be something to try with your little one!
Children naturally slim down once they start moving/ get into toddlerhood.
My son was super chunky as a baby and as a toddler he’s like a bean pole! Perfectly healthy though.
He goes through phases of eating more than me then he’ll survive on a yoghurt and one bite of a banana for the rest of the week.
Trust the process. Your job is to offer healthy balanced meals and snacks, their job is to decide what to eat. They’re very intuitive eaters when young and their body knows what it needs.. take all the pressure off of food (hard I know because we’re hard wired to want to see them eat) but pressure honestly makes it worse in my experience. My son eats best when we plonk the plate down and leave him to it x
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Is anyones husband/ partner actually stepping up post baby?
On Instagram your seeing all these post about husbands doing all the cooking, cleaning, food shop and looking after the other kids and allowing you to sleep, rest and focus on caring for the new baby..
Is this even possible. My husband helps but im still doing everything like usual. Im cooking all our meals, mowed the garden yesterday, hoover daily wash and hang the clothes outside. He is making our toddlers packed lunch for nursery and does the food shop but other than that everything is our usual. I havent had this waited on hand and food situation I see on socials 🤣😅😬
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Having to ask permission from my partner to go have a bath on a Sunday is insane. Yet he walks out the house when he likes to go smoke or plays on his laptop when he likes without a care in the world.
Told him to put the baby on the playmat so he can kick around his answer well all he does is cry and I hate the sound of him crying. It’s consuming…
Bear in mind football is on at 4:30pm and I’m gonna have to cook dinner and do bedtime routine.
Sorry just need a rant.
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I feel so unwell I haven’t got it in me to go in and just take my son and sort everything myself. When my husband is unwell I make sure I do everything and give him a break. He goes off to play golf every weekend for around 8 hours I’m always with my son and I don’t get a break . I do everything with my son but he makes out he’s amazing and does so much with him. I think he’s only ever taken him out on his own twice in his life I’m always there to organise and do everything
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I’m really struggling what to do I need advice or someone to talk to it’s killing me.
Couple months ago my baby dad went out he said he wouldn’t be back late and I told him not to do drugs as I don’t like it and we have a family anyway he didn’t come home till the next day as he was going drugs till silly o’clock in the morning. I had a discussion with him about it saying it upsets me etc saying sorry I won’t do it aged then another couple he did the exact same thing again
On Friday night he went out for a couple hours then came home at 12 in the morning on drugs yet again and somehow it’s all my fault it’s me doing wrong he doesn’t see the wrong in his actions and that he’s hurting me doing it.
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He doesn’t help me with our baby at all
Yesterday he spent all day in bed didn’t come see our daughter never mind me .
I put my all into been a mum don’t get help and just get walked all over I don’t know how much I can take i rlly love him and I don’t want a broken family but he’s hurting me doing this all the time l.
His doing but I’m gonna have to be the one who says sorry and try sort it out
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