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Ideal_Rock
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Was wondering about this the other day after visiting my friend and her 15 month-old daughter, and didn't know what the answer is. Anyway, here's the situation:
Her daughter (F) is enormous. She hasn't been weighed since she was 9 months-old and she was 22lbs then, I am guessing that she is around 30lbs now - I can barely pick her up. She also looks a tad more than just chubby. As a tiny baby she was almost on the skinny side - no chubby thigh rolls at all...
D and I went over for lunch and F had been fed by the time we got there. However she had a second lunch with us at 1.30pm - baked potato, cheese, salad and quiche followed by a yoghurt. Then at 2.30pm her mother made her a sandwich in case she was hungry, and an hour after that biscuits and a bottle of milk. At 5pm she had her supper - 4 fish-fingers, sweetcorn & mashed potatoes followed by nearly half a 300ml tub of yoghurt. She then got another bottle before bed at 7pm.
Apparently she has cereal, toast and yoghurt for breakfast plus a bottle of milk, a sandwich mid-morning and then a lunch along the same lines as her supper.
Basically F always has some food item in her hand at all times.
I have a daughter who thinks that most food is poison and getting 2 spoonfuls of yoghurt into her is to be celebrated so I'm not a great judge of what is normal!
F's mother (who is an MD - but admits she knows nothing about paediatrics (she's a GYN/OB)) frets all the time that her daughter might be hungry. Whenever they're over at mine she spend the whole time jumping up to make sandwiches and snacks for her daughter. F eats anything you put in front of her.
I can't help feeling that just because a child eats it, it doesn't mean they were hungry. That there is such a thing as TOO MUCH and you're just making their stomaches expect larger portions.
Am I way off on thinking this due to my kid's mouse-like appetite or is this a bit unhealthy? BTW, I'd never say anything to the mother, I'm just genuinely intrigued as to what is a reasonable quantity of food for a child of that kind of age.
Her daughter (F) is enormous. She hasn't been weighed since she was 9 months-old and she was 22lbs then, I am guessing that she is around 30lbs now - I can barely pick her up. She also looks a tad more than just chubby. As a tiny baby she was almost on the skinny side - no chubby thigh rolls at all...
D and I went over for lunch and F had been fed by the time we got there. However she had a second lunch with us at 1.30pm - baked potato, cheese, salad and quiche followed by a yoghurt. Then at 2.30pm her mother made her a sandwich in case she was hungry, and an hour after that biscuits and a bottle of milk. At 5pm she had her supper - 4 fish-fingers, sweetcorn & mashed potatoes followed by nearly half a 300ml tub of yoghurt. She then got another bottle before bed at 7pm.
Apparently she has cereal, toast and yoghurt for breakfast plus a bottle of milk, a sandwich mid-morning and then a lunch along the same lines as her supper.
Basically F always has some food item in her hand at all times.
I have a daughter who thinks that most food is poison and getting 2 spoonfuls of yoghurt into her is to be celebrated so I'm not a great judge of what is normal!
F's mother (who is an MD - but admits she knows nothing about paediatrics (she's a GYN/OB)) frets all the time that her daughter might be hungry. Whenever they're over at mine she spend the whole time jumping up to make sandwiches and snacks for her daughter. F eats anything you put in front of her.
I can't help feeling that just because a child eats it, it doesn't mean they were hungry. That there is such a thing as TOO MUCH and you're just making their stomaches expect larger portions.
Am I way off on thinking this due to my kid's mouse-like appetite or is this a bit unhealthy? BTW, I'd never say anything to the mother, I'm just genuinely intrigued as to what is a reasonable quantity of food for a child of that kind of age.