My 15 Month Old Daughter Does Not Eat Solids & Does Not Fall Asleep On Her Own….help!?
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My 15 month ancient daughter hardly eats any solids. As a substitution for of item what she does not eat, it is simpler to list what she does….
* cucumbers (a bite or two)
* bread (a few bites)
* rice (now and again)
* spaghetti (dry, no sauce)
* dairy harvest like cheese and yogurt
* now and again boiled egg if i mash it up and mix it with rice muesli and mix that with fruit yogurt too.
* few bites of failure breast deli-meat.
So her main meal is permanently her pot of formula and the solids that she does eat are just in between snacks.
I am , of course, very very frustrated and at a loss at what I must try as I feel like i have tried All. If food does deal with to get inside her backtalk she will spit it out. Food is permanently everywhere in my house (on the floor, in our hair, on the parapet) accept in my daughters tummy everywhere it must be!
My daughter also wakes up once in the median of the nighttime for a pot, and i feel i cant turn down charitable it to her since she has not anything in her tummy accept for milk so she must be starving?! She won’t go back to take a nap without the pot of milk and she will just take up again crying. You may urge i let her weep it out, but delight take up again conception not more than…
I tried taking her off formula for a few weeks and gave her whole milk as a substitution for, on her pediatricians sanction. He plotting that must make her hungrier for food in view of the fact that whole milk is not as dense as formula. He also not compulsory i supplement with vitamin drops. hahaha…that, of course in my case, did not work. Not only will my daughter turn down the vitamin drops (even if they are diverse in with the milk in the pot), but she was starving in view of the fact that her levelheaded intake did not boost. Yes…she is a tenacious modest one.
My additional come forth is her sleeping lifestyle.
She cannot fall asleep on her own and my spouse is unquestionably hostile to “weep it out” as he cant bare to see/hear our daughter crying. We have argued about this too much and I permanently end up loosing since he just walks into her room and picks her up.
I don’t need to rock her to take a nap but she just desires to be held and cuddled, which is in fact very Cute most nights, but some nights i am just so exhausted (im also 9 weeks pregnant) that i just wish i may possibly place her in bed after having her milk pot and she would fall asleep on her own.
Any suggestions on how to make my life a modest simpler?! Delight!!
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November 25th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
My 15.5 month ancient is Cute much the same. And to add to it, he is allergic to milk protein and has chief reflux issues.And he will NOT take the vitamin drops to save his life. lol
The key that seems to work for me is to mash the food by a hand liquidizer so that its often fine. Even if DS swallows a few mouthfuls, its valuable nourishment inane in. Also, he is developing a taste for the new food even even if he is intake it in a uncommon form
How was she with baby food? Did whatever thing dainty fascinate to her then?( say peas,prunes etc ).Possibly you can go back to counting lots of those over Over again in her food and at a snail's pace transitioning her to kid food, one item at a time.
I can tell to you on the sleeping bit too. What seems to work of late for us is that we perfectly exhaust him by taking him to the park to play in the evenings.All the running gets him hungry and exhausted. He subdue desires to be place to take a nap but it takes very modest time.
Break down and restriction executed owing to break down by no means seems to work..just lots of like, patience and charitable it time does. All the best
November 25th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Family will not starve themselves. Lower the milk intake, no one would want to eat after drinking a huge pot of milk.
November 26th, 2009 at 1:44 am
So don’t give her any milk with her main meal. None at all. No pot of formula (why is she even subdue on a pot?), no whole milk. The alteration in “density” of the two sorts of milk is smallest.
Tenacious? Fine. Let her be tenacious and hungry. Don’t make a huge affair about it. Give her her food, counting some of the gear which she eats by now and some which she doesn’t, and wander off and wash dishes with your back to her or something. What do you mean “if food does deal with to get inside her backtalk…” – are you portentous you are serve feeding a 15 month ancient? So stop. Give her her food and show no dainty fascinate in whether she eats it or not. The first link of times she’ll doubtless toss it on the floor and scream. Take her out of the highchair, say “I guess you’re not hungry just now” and involve on with life. Repeat a link of hours later – without a pot of milk in between.
Once her not intake stops being a way she reins you and starts being something which affects only her, by building herself painstakingly hungry, then you have some chance of it effective.
November 26th, 2009 at 3:08 am
Oh, I feel your pain. It is so hard with your first. Well, my daughter is the same age. Try charitable her finger foods she can feed herself – This is what I fed her when she first ongoing table food:
Pastina – it’s tiny modest star shaped pasta. impracticable to choke on
just boil it down with chicken gumbo and add butter to it
Cheerios – every kid likes these – I first waterlogged them in milk or water to diminish them in anticipation of she early chewing surpass.
colorless bread – tiny modest bits of soft marvel bread
canned or jar Manderin oranges – these are slippery modest guys – very simple to for them to swallow and chew
Twisted egg – make a modest baby omelet – just butter and cut up very tiny
If she won’t eat, just walk away from her and do something like empty the dishwasher – this permanently works for me and she eats away. If I sit there she will weep and fuss. Or try feeding her at the table with the family when all else is intake.
I too have to hold my daughter to go to take a nap. My hubby disfigured her by permanently rocking her to take a nap. I did use to place her to bed even as wide Wide awake and she would fall asleep. But those days are gone. I do have some accomplishment during the day even if for her naps. So I would try putting her in her crib during the day for her naps at the same time every day. Pick a time that she is ordinarily inactive. And if she crys just stay with her a modest bit but keep her in the crib. place some toys in the crib and play alittle with her , make it fun. then place. Sure she will weep a modest but that’s fine. Crying is how they pacify themselves. Unless she is screaming bloody murder. Then go back and do it over Over again and place over Over again. Eventually she will go to take a nap surpass on her own. It just takes time and do.
But don’t agonize you are not alone! – Best