Meal times

I just spent the last hour feeding LM and making sure she eats up her 'breakfast'.. Meal times are surely getting more and more difficult these days.. It begins with what she wants to eat.. Back then we gave her rice porridge and she gulped everything we gave her.. As she grew older we started giving her different types of food, rice, soups, noodles, pasta, fries, potatoes and in the past 2 weeks she has demonstrated her preference for noodles over everything else.. We tried giving her rice with diff food but she continues to refuse.. When we gave her noodles particularly kolo mee, she eats them up well and even taking away MY portion!!

Of course we were worried but after talking to some friends, reading up some materials and talking to the nurses and doctors, most advise received was that give her choices of what she wants to eat, when she wants to eat, at the rate she wants to eat and at the amount she wants to eat.. So apparently the child will not starve themselves and will ask for food when they feel like it. And as for being a picky eater, apparently they are just demonstrating control and shows that they are growing up..

Of course one of the concerns is that will there be enough nutrients for her by eating noodles only? Well it falls under grains and it supplies carbohydrates that supplies energy for the little one.. I suppose its better off that she eats something rather than nothing at all right?

So as a supplement, we give her multivitamins on a daily basis and recently introduced those chewy multivitamins.. Of course she enjoys chewy ones pasal macam gula2.. hahaha

Oh most websites also advises parents with picky eaters as children not to get hung over.. so that is what we shall do and be thankful that she is eating...! hehehe