https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:12:42 +0000 Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:10:12 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.05 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=1134 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19687&title=trouble-eater#19687 Author: nikkitheknitter
Subject: 1134
Posted: 11 November 2005 at 12:10pm

Han's the same, the little toad. Won't let me feed her but will quite happily feed herself. (Until she discovers banging the spoon on the side of the bowl - usually with food on it, and it goes EVERYWHERE)

She's such a damn fussy eater. Wouldn't eat her dinner last night. But I think that was because she was overtired. Arghhh.]]> Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:10:12 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19687&title=trouble-eater#19687 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19583&title=trouble-eater#19583 Author: jack_&_charli
Subject: 1134
Posted: 10 November 2005 at 2:37pm

hehehe liz! jack will do that sometimes too. give him a spoonful and he'll look like he's loving it, then spit it out. then he'll wait and either pick it up and eat it or try to put it back in his plate

thanks nikki, i'll have a look for molars when he's up. my god it's soooooo hot here today!!! 32deg!!]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:37:09 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19583&title=trouble-eater#19583 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19563&title=trouble-eater#19563 Author: lizzle
Subject: 1134
Posted: 10 November 2005 at 12:30pm

jake was really funny last night. Anything I gave him was spat up and placed on the floor, then he would get the same kind of food, smush it and put it in his mouht himself, and no problem! Little monster! He's gorwing more independant but I wish he'd do it in a tidier fashion.]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:30:58 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19563&title=trouble-eater#19563 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19544&title=trouble-eater#19544 Author: nikkitheknitter
Subject: 1134
Posted: 10 November 2005 at 10:33am

I don't know if this is the case with Jack but Hannah wouldn't eat properly when she was teething. I was having the most difficult time trying to get the little weasel to eat about a month back... then found that she was getting her molars.

Now she's eating fine again! (Well as fine as ever... she's always been a bit of a problem eater)]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:33:59 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19544&title=trouble-eater#19544 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19526&title=trouble-eater#19526 Author: jack_&_charli
Subject: 1134
Posted: 10 November 2005 at 8:56am

woohoo! i'm a senior member now!

thanks guys for your suggestions. i think i'll try getting him a cool kids plate and see if that helps. my nana gave him a cute noah's ark plate set that was my dad's but other than that we just use normal plates.

he is having a good variety of things now as i just feed him what we are having. tonight is chicken pasta bake yum!

maybe i just need to ride it out?? it's soooo frustrating ]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:56:56 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19526&title=trouble-eater#19526 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19521&title=trouble-eater#19521 Author: mum2paris
Subject: 1134
Posted: 10 November 2005 at 8:41am

i think most kids go through that stage - paris did too and i got so worried!

we just tried the little of lots theory, a little bit of lots of different things, and we're the same - if i don't feel she has eaten enough she can have fruit, and fruit only. if she's eaten everything or made a really great effort - then she might get desert, or a bikie, or sometimes just a hanful of choccy chips.. something little but that she realllly likes.

i think also they can get bored - so maybe try introducing a few more different foods, make it exciting, or something that worked for us was to get kiddie bowls and plates with pictures on the bottom - we would say to paris that the fairy was hiding under her food - and if we wanted to find her we had to eat the food - and bit by bit she would be uncovered.. and it would encourage her to eat more so she could see the fairy... sounds like a lots of hassle - but usually that was what worked when we really didn't think anything else would.

alot of the time its about negotiation, lol, i think most mums could quite easily fit in to any hostage negotiation squad. lol ]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:41:15 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19521&title=trouble-eater#19521 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19513&title=trouble-eater#19513 Author: jack_&_charli
Subject: 1134
Posted: 09 November 2005 at 9:59pm

jack is the same. i gave him some kiwifruit today after his nap seems he didn't have much lunch and he just squished it in his hands, nice! he's eaten it before no probs, but no, not today thanks.
he ate his dinner really well tonight and also polished off a yoghurt, prob cos he was starving    ]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:59:04 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19513&title=trouble-eater#19513 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19490&title=trouble-eater#19490 Author: Bizzy
Subject: 1134
Posted: 09 November 2005 at 4:14pm

gabriel will be two on fri and has just started eating at the table instead of a highchair. but i remember that stage - more food would end up on the floor than anywhere else. i think at that age i was giving less options, sandwich and fruit i think. in the end tho if they arent hungry we cant force them. i was saying to my husband the other night the same thing and remembering how we used to have to sit at the table until we had eaten whatever it was on our plate, nothing worse than cold cabbage or brussel sprouts or whatever other vege it was.
oh and i think at that age gabriel had a spoon and i had one too, but he is a tactile chappy and loves to mush his food with his hands. ]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:14:28 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19490&title=trouble-eater#19490 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19482&title=trouble-eater#19482 Author: lizzle
Subject: 1134
Posted: 09 November 2005 at 3:52pm

Jake has just started spitting food out. It's delightful!! Especially as I'm at PIL's house and have just finished telling them what a good eater he is. The problem is also we dont' all eat together and he'll go up to the family and just take whatever they are eating. So recently I feed him a small lunch and then make my own a little bigger. I know he'll want it if I'm eating it....seems to work, if it goes on for much longer I'll reassess.]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:52:31 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19482&title=trouble-eater#19482 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19467&title=trouble-eater#19467 Author: jack_&_charli
Subject: 1134
Posted: 09 November 2005 at 2:28pm

i've tried to give jack a variety of stuff on his plate at meal times, but he just picks at things and then throws it on the floor. i'm still at the stage where i have to spoon feed him his food mixed together otherwise he won't eat it. or i give him a section of sandwich at a time and then other things like fruit or crackers after he has had the sandwich.

is gabriel eating off a plate by himself? how old is he?
]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:28:14 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19467&title=trouble-eater#19467 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19466&title=trouble-eater#19466 Author: Bizzy
Subject: 1134
Posted: 09 November 2005 at 2:06pm

in our house if gabriel doesnt eat what i give him then we just leave it. we have so many battles over other things that i decided early on that food wasnt going to be an issue. i dont make him separate meals either tho, but if he doesnt eat dinner and i dont think he has had enuf i offer a banana - cause that is his fav food. always at lunch i put a variety on his plate, today was a cocktail sausage, bread and jam and nutella, some dried fruit and a piece of cheese. i wouldnt stress about the food, apparently a child will never let themselves starve.]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:06:52 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19466&title=trouble-eater#19466 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19462&title=trouble-eater#19462 Author: jack_&_charli
Subject: 1134
Posted: 09 November 2005 at 1:56pm

god help me i'm losing my mind!!!

jack has started to be a real pain to feed at night and sometimes at lunchtime too. he will have a couple of spoonfuls of food, then when i give him another, he'll
swipe at the spoon flinging food all over the place!
OR he will chew the food a few times then spit it out.

we've introduced the naughty chair last night and it took us an hour to feed him!!

he went to bed today without lunch, i hate to do that but he wouldn't eat a sandwich i made him (after 30mins!!). i didn't want to give him something else as i don't want him to think he'll always get something better if he doesn't eat what's offered first.

sorry for the novel, i'm stuck for what to do with him ]]> Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:56:41 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1134&PID=19462&title=trouble-eater#19462