Thursday, April 8, 2010
HELP
Alyssa is not eating well. This has been progressing over the last few weeks but the last 3 days I barely can get her to eat anything. She only takes a bottle at night about 6 oz so it's not like she is full on milk. Last night for dinner I tried to feed her a chicken and rice bowel (which she use to love) she took 2 bites, then I gave her cottage cheese (again she use to eat a gallon at a time) she had 2 bites, then one bite of a sandwich and a half of cheese slice. She refused to eat any more after that. This morning I actually got her to eat a whole yogurt and 2 bites of toast. What do I do? I feel like she will wither away. She is only in the 7% for weight she is 13 months and weighs 18 lbs. I feel like she will eat if she is hungry but I also think she likes playing and would rather do that than eat. Should I give her pediasure or vitamins to make sure she is getting enough nutrients? Or should I not even worry?
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I am sure that a pedisure wouldn't hurt. And the flavored ones may actually stimulate her appetite?
I know you get a hard time about Alyssa's tininess from the fam, but if her doc's not worried yet she's probably ok.
If it was me, I would probably try the pediasure, no harm in it right? She might even like it and it would definitely be good for her. Maybe you could try having meal time be a certain amount of time so she has to stay in her high chair for ten minutes or something whether she eats or not, then maybe she'll eat cuz she's got nothing else to do. Who knows though, maybe she's too little for that kind of thing- I'm no expert!
Maybe Cohen will rub off on her on our trip as she sees the amazing amount of food he eats! Maybe she'll rub off on him too and he won't think he has to eat every second!
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