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[lollardfish]

My son's eating hygiene has collapsed. He now only willingly eats edamame, green beans, plain noodles, yoghurt, fruit, cottage cheese. He used to eat many more things. Like, over the last weekend. It's very frustrating.

Edit - Sweet potatoes back on the menu. Fish sticks and chicken nuggets, spaghetti-os (indistinguishable from the food he ate from jars) still off, fruit-and-nut bread still on.

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[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

There are two amazingly counter-intuitive facts of child rearing that should be printed in giant red letters on the first page of every book on baby and child care. This is one of them.

Babies start out eating just one kind of food and not very much of that. As they get bigger they eat more and more, at the same time increasing the variety of what they eat. A pattern has been established, and it seems perfectly natural. You think you know how this works.

Then at about 18 months the appetite stops increasing and that seems a little weird. Then they start eating LESS. Then they start getting picky about what they eat, and dropping foods from their diet. As the months roll by, both trends pick up speed until, by the age of 4, your child won't eat anything except bananas and Cheerios. This just feels SO WRONG. It's even stranger if you happen to have a baby in the house at the same time, and you realize that your great big 4-year-old is eating approximately half as much as your 9-month-old.

The growth spurt has slowed down and you will be absolutely astounded how little he will be eating over the next couple of years, and how your baby who used to live for putting strange things into his mouth would now rather die than swallow a vegetable. They all do this. It's okay.