There are only a handful of foods Lila will eat. Bananas, tomatoes, yogurt, cheese, peanut butter and jelly, frozen peas (only frozen) and chicken nuggets are the main ones.
She is a stubborn little thing too. She has gone to bed without eating on several occasions because if she doesn't think dinner looks good, she won't even try it.
I get excited each time we find something new she will eat
We just added blueberries to that list
Too many pictures of the same baby eating the same bowl of berries? Maybe.
Do I care? Nope!
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Look at the cute little blueberry face! The first time Eva pigged out on blueberries, I was shocked- black poop!
Those pictures are precious! She sounds like such a funny little girl with her stubbornness but I'm glad you found something new she likes!
Chloe, now 12, is still a PICKY eater...she would live on chicken nuggets if allowed to. I will give the blueberries a try....one more time :/
Hello Michelle! Abby was just like Lila--she used to eat very few foods. I used to try to get her to try different foods, but she is super stubborn, just like Lila. There were 2 things we did that helped expand her list of "edible" foods. The first was we played the "dinner game". One person picks something on their plate that everyone eats. We all get it ready on our fork and the person who picked the food says, "On your mark, get set, go!" and we all eat it. Then the next person picks something. The key was that we didn't let Abby play the first few times. We said to Abby, "You don't like any of this food, so you can't play." She wasn't too happy about not being included. Then she started to play with us and she discovered a lot of food that she actually liked. The other thing that we did was that we did not talk about her food AT ALL! We didn't say, "One more bite." We didn't say, "Just try it, you'll like it." We simply put a little of each item on her plate and didn't talk it. When it was clear she wasn't going to eat any more, we didn't make a fuss about it. We just picked up her plate, asked if she was done and told her there was no food or snacks until breakfast. Once we didn't pay any attention to what she was eating or how much she was eating, she actually started to eat more. (Of course when she did eat more and tried other foods, we gave her a lot of positive attention.) Mitch & I just figured that she wasn't going to starve, so we just let go. Good Luck! (And no, it's not too many picts of such a cutie!)
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