i have tried everything all he does is scream no and start to cry. sometimes he will eat chicken noodle soup but thats it and only when its just me him and my 8 week old.
2006-10-04 08:20:15 · 24 answers · asked by Amanda A 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
i also forgot to mention that my child is on pedisure and had a feeding tube up until january of this year. he never drink a bottle because it choked him
2006-10-04 08:47:38 · update #1
If you have a deep fryer, make him sweet potatoe fries. He just might not notice the difference.
2006-10-04 09:15:07 · answer #1 · answered by BAnne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No child will starve himself. This has become a power struggle and not a nutritional issue. You are going to have to hang tough on this one, but be prepared that he will try to hang tougher than you. Stop buying potato chips and french fries. Don't be his short-order cook. Offer him breakfast - toast, bananas, and scrambled eggs with whole milk to drink for example. Put him in his high chair and offer it to him. If he yells and screams and says, "no", remove the food to the kitchen and him from his high chair. An hour or 2 later, offer him a healthy snack, a few grapes cut into 1/4's, a few whole grain goldfish crackers and a glass of whole milk. More yelling? Remove him and his food from the high chair. Offer a healthy lunch - whole wheat crackers with peanut butter, apple slices, yellow pepper strips. Make sure everything is bite-size and there isn't too much on his plate. Again screaming? Food goes in the kitchen, he gets down from his high chair. Offer him water to drink in between meals and snacks. Healthy dinner and before bed snack are offered with him choosing to eat or not. Do not ever beg, or plead, or bribe him to get him to eat. If he doesn't eat one thing all day, it WILL be OK - trust me. He'll think toast and bananas looks pretty good by the next morning, but if not, do it all again the second day. He will NOT starve. Offer him lots of choices through out the day. Avoid juice, even watered down, as it will fill up his tummy plus it has a lot of sugar in it (even natural 100 % juices are very high in sugar content). Take the battle out of food and he'll stop refusing to eat.
2006-10-04 09:03:13 · answer #2 · answered by sevenofus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a mother of 2 this battle isn't going to be easily won... i did it with my son who is now 3... don't allow him to eat anything but what you give him. He is old enough to understand that he has to eat what you make him or he doesn't eat. You have to stick to it or it will never work. After a little while he will get hungry enough that he will eat it. Another thing that helps is to make sure you eat the same thing you are trying to feed him. It is kinda hard to tell someone to eat veggies when you are eating fast food. if you are out and have to get him something on the run make sure you make it healthy. A lot of places are offering healthy things for kids instead of fries and soda... but the main thing is whatever you decide to do you need to stick to it no matter what. if he sees you give in he will continue to fight it. Go to the link below. I am a member there and there is always professionals on there to help as well as other mothers. Good Luck
2006-10-04 08:30:27 · answer #3 · answered by Lena 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
my oldest ate only a very few things for years: strawberry, peanut butter, wheat bread, yoghurt, sweet potatoes and tuna. the doctor said, great, that's a fine diet, leave him alone.
so that's what he ate, all the time, for years.
what is it your're trying that he screams no and starts to cry? different foods?
given his age, it sounds like a temper tantrum and to see if he can control you.
I would not get him enough french fries or potato chips to fill him up, for a long time, not to punish him, but to help him expand.
when he screams no and starts to cry, just tell him, "I'm sorry, I can't eat with that noise, and I will need to have you wait in [somewhere you can see him] until you're through screaming. "
You say things like this, you don't speak punitively, just seriously. You let him know this tactic is done and overwith and will not work anymore.
DON'T GET INTO A POWER STRUGGLE WITH A CHILD. As you've seen, you lose as soon as you do.
When he's not screaming, don't force him to eat what he doesn't want, don't make him sit until he's eaten everything. You do not want to fight with him about this. It will lead to eating disorders at the extreme, and too much of a hassle at the minimum
He will eat when he gets hungry enough, so keep trying, putting out foods.
Also, because mannnnny children are very sensitive to food's textures, he may literally not be able to gag down some foods. Get his help in giving you information on what the food feels like, tastes like - maybe at a non-meal time you can set up a science experiment, tell him, and you will both taste things and you can records his feelings and yours about them. don't have them on dishes, but some serving item that doesn't remind him of meal time.
that might yield some info, be some fun, and get him to reveal more things he will eat.
So, put out nice foods, trying different things and thinking about textures and flavors, and and just allow him the autonomy of what goes in his own body. Any pediatrician will tell you he is not going to starve. Help him work this out, don't let tantrums become a tool, and don't let mealtimes become sad times.
You might also shop with him or go to the library with him and find a cool book with lots of pictures of cool foods for kids. ask him what he'd like to make. have him help to the extent possible. That's supposed to help, too.
The biggest thing is to remove the power struggle. Win by not engaging in it. He doesn't want anything to eat? Okay. Let me down to play.
He's upset because of No fries today? Tell him, Oh, you wish you could give him a mountain of fries, there's just none in there.... Describe the great mountain of fries, encourage him to, it'll be fun and he knows you've heard him and care about him and then he'll hear you more....
You can do this! And so can he.
2006-10-04 08:36:00 · answer #4 · answered by cassandra 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My guess is that you are giving him the fries and chips. I would think he won't starve himself. Offer him other things and set them out so he can get them if he is hungry enough, but stop giving in to him. That is why he screams and cries. My daughter is 2 and when she refuses something to eat I set it somewhere she can reach and tell her it is there, then walk away. When she realizes that is all she will get, and I am no longer paying attn she will eat it.
Maybe he is trying to get attn because of the new baby? It is probabally a hard adjustment for both of you! Make sure you are giving him Mommy time alone, (without the baby) Make sure he knows you are still there for him!
2006-10-04 08:34:22 · answer #5 · answered by butterfliesbrown 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you could tell out of your solutions it really is better worry-loose then you fairly imagine. I easily were doing that for a at the same time as. although the reason i began isn't that worry-loose. at the same time as is straightforward preparation we were only allowed one holiday by the chow line. Of the stuff lets get from the condiment set up were bread, cheese, chips, and mayo. I ate 4 or 5 of those sandwiches an afternoon only to live to inform the tale. I received 40 pounds in those 11 weeks. Now I put in chips because i like the crunch it brings.
2016-11-26 02:42:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best thing to do is not allow a kid that age to eat unhealthy snacks. But he already knows and loves them, so try making fun healthy treats. For example a yogert sundae. Get some vanilla yogert cut up a bunch of different fruits and let him make his own. It looks appetizing, it fun to make and it has the word sundae in it :) kids allways go for sundaes.
Also believe me I know this is hard, because I had to do it too. But your kids will want to eat what you eat. If you eat a balanced diet of healthy foods, your kids will want to as well. Then when it comes time for you 8 wk old to start getting picky on foods, he/she will have a better example to follow, and will be easier to get to eat healthy.
2006-10-04 10:35:38 · answer #7 · answered by Libby L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stop buying the french fries and potato chips. Offer healthy alternatives to those choices, or tell him he doesn't get to eat anything. If he grows up eating potato chips and french fries, he'll never eat anything else, but if you force him to try new things, he might find that he really likes something else.
2006-10-04 09:09:50 · answer #8 · answered by squeekmnstr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At his age I am most certain regardless of the ignorance of feeding a child Potato Chips and French Fries, he shouldnt be at the stage of eating that kind of food. Try yogurt, or vegtable and fruit smoothies. For those that say "If he doesnt eat, then just let him not eat", he is too young for that strategy. Consult your doctor and buy some pediasure.
2006-10-04 08:30:44 · answer #9 · answered by finished 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hello! You need to go to your local supermarket and by him some Pediasure. It is a milkshake for kids(vanilla, chocolate, strawberry) that contains vitamins and all the nutrients kids need. I give it to my kids and it works great. Kids can be very picky. You also have to change what you eat. If you just let him cry he will eventually try new foods because he will be hungry, but if that doesn't work the pediasure will make up for the fruits and vegetables that he refuses to eat.
2006-10-04 09:31:49 · answer #10 · answered by Michelle M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DONT GIVE IN!!! He knows now if he screams enough you'll give it to him he is testing you. Seriously let him scream let him throw it on the floor. Oh yeah and try noodles spagetti raviolli, mr.noddles what ever kids love noddles of all kinds. I know my son doesnt like to eat at dinner time but if I make noodles he ask for seconds and some times even thirds
2006-10-04 08:43:05 · answer #11 · answered by Brandi D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋