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Our month-to-month FAQs submit is tackling three totally different questions on what to do when youngsters cease consuming meals they used to love…which is a situation most of us can relate to! The questions cowl what to do when meals refusal abruptly means there are loads fewer meals your baby will eat, and likewise when it will increase meals waste.
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Assist! My 19 month previous has change into choosy and isn’t consuming issues like meat or eggs anymore. Simply needs yogurt, fruit, and carbs. —Allison
First, there’s 100% nothing fallacious with yogurt, fruit and carbs. One of the useful issues I’ve ever realized about toddlers and meals is what generally occurs to their urge for food after their first birthday. Sometimes, infants develop actually quickly, are hungry, and keen to attempt a variety of meals after they begin solids. (That’s clearly a generalization, however it’s normally largely true.)
Then, after a child turns one, their progress slows down compared to the earlier months.
Which implies that our one yr olds could merely not be as hungry as they have been after they have been a bit of bit youthful. (That is counterintuitive, I do know.)
And as a result of this decrease urge for food, a one yr previous could also be much less prone to eat the entire meals they used to eat as infants as a result of they’ll run out of area of their bellies sooner.
Plus, one yr olds are more and more rising increasingly more conscious of the world round them—and their separate place in it. And to allow them to begin to notice that they’ll extra forcibly or clearly voice their preferences…and we are going to reply.
Which implies that it’s really very, very probably that this 19 month previous just isn’t
“choosy”, however is as an alternative consuming in another way that they used to for a mixture of comprehensible causes.
Merely shifting our perspective of what we’re seeing to this extra empathetic strategy can permit us to not label the children as an issue to resolve. And to take these phases with a giant handful of salt.
Here’s what I attempted to do when this kind of factor occurred with one in every of my youngsters:
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