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Feeding FAQ: 12-18 months – Food Fads/Fussiness
Should I be concerned about my 17mth old son who does not want to eat? Is it just a phase and problems with teething? Can you advise me when I should start worrying that my 17month old son isn’t eating anything? I have read the FAQ’s and fussiness is obviously a common problem at this age but he seems to be eating even less than the other children featured. Also, his milk consumption is very low – between 5-10 ozs a day. A molar has come through very recently, which probably caused him some discomfort, but this has been going on for about four weeks now. It’s not that he’s…
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Feeding FAQ: 12-18 months – Food Fads/Fussiness
My son of 1yr has lost interest in his breakfast and needs coaxing to eat all his meals. My little boy has completely gone off breakfast. I understand this is a natural stage of development but he eats so reluctantly with lots of coaxing and then gets hungry and upset midmorning so I give him a small snack which then affects his appetite for lunch. I have tried lots of different cereals, most of which he used to enjoy. He seems to enjoy the more “grown up” ones such as Rice Krispies, mainly as his Dad has them I think. However he doesn’t have anywhere near your recommended 50g, it’s…
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Feeding FAQ: 12-18 months – Food Fads/Fussiness
his may not sound like a problem, but my son doesn’t like potatoes in any form! It’s hard doing dinner, as potatoes go well with most things, like stew, roast, sausages and chicken.I have tried mash, roast, boiled, oven-baked chips and jacket potatoes, but he doesn’t like them in any form. What can I give instead? I need something to satisfy him, as the main things he eats are vegetables (broccoli, peas, cauliflower, sweet corn) and meat. He isn’t particularly fond of pasta, and you can only give so much before it’s boring! Besides, plain pasta is awful. Thanks for your help. You have had a frustrating time trying to…
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Sleeping FAQ: 18-24 Months – Lunchtime Nap
Ella’s (20 months) short lunchtime nap is causing other problems with sleeping and eating. Ella is one year and eight months old. The problem is that she is only sleeping 30-40 minutes at her lunchtime nap. The knock-on effect is that she is waking earlier in the mornings too. She also often doesn’t want supper as she is too tired. She is very run down from lack of sleep and subsequently keeps getting various illnesses. She currently has terrible conjunctivitis and a cough and cold. I always put her down at 1pm and she used to sleep for about 1.5 hours but not since the beginning of January. I have…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Other
How do I move a 14-month-old to his big bed? I have a fourteen-month-old boy and I am expecting a new baby at the end of January. I would like to move my little boy into a cot bed and give the new baby his cot, which is getting too small for him. I just wondered what might be the best way to get my son used to a new bed. He hates change, and whenever we have been on holiday, I have needed to lie down with him on a bed, and then move him once he is asleep; he is very attached to one of my nightdresses. I…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Other
My 1 year toddler’s frustration with a grobag. My one-year-old child has been a great sleeper so far, sleeping for 13 hours each night and about 3 hours during the day. The problem is that he gets extremely frustrated when he wakes up as he is in his gro-bag and is unable to stand up in his cot. I would like to be able to leave him in his cot to play, but his frustration causes him to cry as soon as he awakes. He sleeps in a 1.0-tog towelling gro-bag. I have never been very keen on towelling gro-bags, particularly once babies start to move around. The problem you…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Daytime Sleep
My 13-month-old son has begun to fight sleep at daytime naps. My son sleeps perfectly at night. He used to sleep well in the day, going down easily. However, over the last 3-4 weeks he has begun to refuse to go down for his morning and lunchtime naps without screaming. There has been no change to his routine prior to this, although it is changing slightly now in an effort to get him to sleep (e.g. walks in the buggy and the timing is out). This is because my husband works nights and has to sleep in the day. I am happy to carry out controlled crying in order to…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Daytime Sleep
Should I have dropped the morning nap at 13 months? My son of 13 months is not tired by 9:30am, and will not settle down for his morning nap, so I have stopped it. Now he is very tired by 11:30am, so I have brought back his lunch from noon to around 11:15am; this way he is in bed by noon. I expect him to sleep for 2 hours, but he doesn’t always do this; sometimes he sleeps for 2 1/2 hours and other times just 1 hour. When he only sleeps for 1 hour, he is tired by 3:30pm. I let him sleep for 1/2 hour but then it…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Daytime Sleep
My son of 14mths has begun to take awhile to settle at 7pm. Do we need to change anything? My son is 14 months and has slept fine 7pm – 6:30/7pm since 3 months old. He particularly always settled quickly at 7pm. For the last week he has started taking 30-45mins to settle at 7pm. We have a wind down routine that we follow every night with bath at 6pm, milk at 6:20pm then story at about 6:40pm and he is settled down about 6:55pm. Now he seems full of energy, laughing and squealing, and when we put him down he is playing with the bars of the cot, jumping…
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Sleeping FAQ: 12-18 Months – Settling/Sleep Associations
My 16 month son is cuddled to sleep, and now I need to stop. My son, Rahul, is 16 months with no siblings. He was 3.5kgs at birth and is 13.5kgs now. His routine is approximately 7am-8pm. He was breast fed until 5mths. I stopped because he was drinking 10 ounces at each feed and totally exhausting me. He has been on formula milk since then (Similac Advance). He has 6oz (180ml) milk on waking and breakfast at 9/9.30am. Lunch is at 11.30/45am followed by a bath and a nap between 1pm and 2.15/3pm. He will have 4oz (120ml) milk and some fruit by 4pm. If he is still hungry…
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