Advice needed from those in the know re fussy eaters please
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Ie those with the misfortune of having one in their family or somebody medical.
I need some advice on why ds is like this and what to do next.
Ds is one of 2 non identical twins 5 I also have a 4 year old daughter. The other 2 are fantastic eaters,dp and I are real foodies I lived abroad when tiny and was weaned on food from street markets I love any food and enjoy experimenting.
Ds was a nightmare from day 1. He was weaned from the same bowl of homemade food as twin 1. I followed AK so he was bombarded with new flavours. We've never given in and given him alternatives,he's always gone hungry, we've never got stroppy just ignored it and made him just taste it. As far as I can see we've done it by the book. Why then is he the most fussy eater known to man?
He loves fruit,w/m bread,peanut butter,yog,fish fingers,sausages(which he now skins),cereal,milk. I'm getting concerned as he was doing really well but is now rapidly adding things he's always liked to his leaving on the side of the plate list. I'm also concerned he never eats veg and is going to bed hungry night after night having eaten no tea. He will only eat tea if it's sausages or fishfingers which it rarely is. He gets really hungry but refuses to eat things he says he doesn't like. He's at school now so this isn't good.
How do I handle this do I get stroppy or order him to eat it, I exploded over a lamb stew for the 1st time
and he ate it. I just want to know the right way of handling things so he eats more than a bowl of cereal,peanut butter sandwiches and an apple daily.
Thanks in advance
Good luck MilaMae - I have sense of smell but not only the textural thing I hate it if hubby adds sauce/gravy to a dish or mixes a sauce with a dry food, for instance, curry and rice and the nan bread touching weirds me out....cos I hate the soggy bit of the bread, it ruins it to me...........
But what is weirder I guess is if I am eating out it doesn't bother me as much as I don't have as much control however I will often ask for sauce/gravy in a dish to do myself, these days I can use LO as an excuse!
I hate being fussy and things like Olives I have tried about 10-15 times in the last few years, different types, stuffed, plain etc... still can't stand them
my daughter is 4 and used to be awful and would live on cereal,yogs and pasta.every single tea time but i felt that things only become a habit with her when i allow them to be like the dummy,nappies,cups at night so i just stopped and broke that habit and decided to give her what were having.took her awhile but think she realised thats all there was on offer.i know it might not work like that for every one but trust be she was terrible would,nt eat when we went out every sunday we go to nannys for a roast she would have pasta!now she eats most things curry and nan,spag bol,today roast chicken with all the veg.i think most kids grow out of it i was a terrible eater until my late teens
Cross posts - now I wish I hadn't used the phrase 'floating around'
Oooh, I'll be so proud if I've actually helped reach a diagnosis
Hopefully if he can do orange there'll be other things that he can do - & that's more hopeful in terms of a cure than if there was nothing at all. Some causes can be to do with all of the sensory neurones between the nose & brain somehow being severed which is obviously very difficult / impossible to help, but if he can smell orange it's obviously not that. Definitely very promising
Good luck with it all - it'll get easier as he gets older, as he'll be able to help with the considering what he might like / tolerate based on what he already knows. You seem to have been dealing with it really well already - he's a very lucky boy
I'll be interested to know how it goes - if you happen to see me floating around at some point, keep me updated
Sorry to be gross but dd just did a poo,took him into the bathroom and asked if he could smell anything-he couldn't. Believe me the rest of us all could,it was hard to not!!!!
It does look as if he's not quite as good at smelling as we all are.
Thanks for that will try that approach you never know it might work. I think I might relax a bit more if I knew it wasn't him just being difficult.
Many, many,many thanks for helping out and posting during witching hour
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Interesting!!!!!
Just blindfolded him couldn't smell Marmite at all even though he says he hates it. He thought curry powder might be sauce and chocolate sweets but wasn't sure. He could do orange. The thing is he is a very bright boy so more than capable of articulating the smells and being more specific.
It's extra interesting that you have a twin for comparison - a scientist's dream
There are some things that I can kind of 'smell' in that I'm aware that there's something to be smelt, but I have no idea what it is. For example some strong perfumes, the swimming baths, a chip shop, etc. I can feel the sensation in my nose, but could never in a million years distinguish what it was if I was blindfolded. It's a very difficult thing to explain.
If it seems that he does have a smell-related issue, it'll be worth you doing that old 'trick' of eating something a bit plain, like apple, & smelling something strong, like vanilla. When your apple miraculously tastes like vanilla, you'll understand how important smell is & have a slight point of reference from which to empathise - I think it's easier to be more patient if you don't feel completely in the dark about it all
Big time hater of contamination ie rejects food he likes completely if it's even touched foods he doesn't know or like, I've started serving his food on a bigger plate so there are clear boundaries!!!!!!!!
I just nipped up and got him to smell some perfume in the dark, he thought he could smell it but had no idea what it was-interesting as dd3 was there piping up it's perfume,it's perfume. Will do a blindfold test tomorrow with curry,orange etc
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