From Loving Food to Picky Eater
My gal, if you know her since baby, you would agree that she’s a good eater. She ate everything, anything, every time and any time of the day. When she was a baby, everyone thought that she didn’t have enough from my breastmilk. She was fully on breastmilk until 15 months, and I started supplementing her with formula in process of weaning her off. She had no problem taking solids after 6 months old, and started spoon feeding herself by one. She was eager to join others at the table, and she could easily eat on her own, maybe ask for more, and might be the last to leave the table when everyone was done.
She was not chubby, but she ate a lot. In short, meal time was a bliss with our little Isabelle.
BUT…things changed.
NOW, she’s a picky eater. Dinner is a stressful moment for us as she will start to complain even before she takes the first bite. She will tell us IT’S NOT THE RIGHT RICE, even if we have been taking red hom mali rice for 2 years. She will tell us the veggie is not nice, and it’s not broccoli. She will nag that we give her too much in her bowl, even if there are only 2 spoon full of rice, with some veggie, a piece of meat or fish and some egg. Bla bla bla…
That’s how sorrow she is, having to take her dinner. Sigh…
After a long day at work and coming home to prepare the dinner, handling a fussy eater can really test my patience. She can sit there, cry, eat a bit and fuss a lot for more than 30 minutes. Even after hubby’s finished the dishes and I’m done cleaning up, her plate is still FULL. In the end, hubby will just let her go. KEK SEI NGOR la.
Will the gong gong and po po come and handle this fussy kid for me? Beh tahan jor…
Might be just a phase. I read somewhere that sometimes, they just simply don’t feel like eating.
sigh…I have exactly the same issue like you now. Zoe started off eating everything too until she turns 3. Everyday during meal time, she tells me she hate vege and she only eat skin…haii!
I think I am not handling it well now as begin to feed her myself during dinner, so that she at least eat half a plate. Else she will be cranky and snacking on junks later…..
I wish it is a passing phase….and passing really soon!
My home got 1 like this too and this pattern come and go always…a period of time he is ok then the no-appetite look come back, I always pulling my hair thinking of what ways to make him eat. Many ways I used to threaten him for just to want him to eat the tiny portion…really hard to handle sometime..I totally understd you.
Sometimes I just left him and only feed him way past the actual meal time…let them feel a bit of hunger then at least he will eat faster..don’t worry it is just a phase, as long as she still drink milk, eat lil portion of solid is ok la…
Agnes, ya, I hope that it’s a phrase too. Luckily she still takes her bento, especially fruits. If not, I lagi pengsan.
Ponytail, I don’t have the patience and time to feed her. Sigh…Really manchang
Lemonjude, she still drinks milk. Now, I’m not sure if I want to wean her off her bottle. Gee…better delay first. If not, milk also dun want, I will really pull my hair!