It's always something, isn't it?!?!
There's always something to worry about with kids, huh?
My newest concern is Jana's eating... what she's eating. After getting so sick with the stomach bug, the poor kid would eat so much! She totally chunked up! Well, now we're back to eating a bit more normally.
I asked my mother in law yesterday about how much milk she should be drinking in a day. She gave me a handout that had the USDA Food and Nutrition Guidelines for 1-2 year olds (my mil is a child development specialist, so she has all kinds of stuff like that).
I discovered that I'm totally overfeeding her.
Here is what the guidelines say:
Breakfast: 1 serving milk, 1 fruit/vegetable, 1 grain.
Lunch/Dinner: 1 milk, 2 fruit/vegetable, 1 meat, 1 grain
Snack: 2 of the following (1 milk, 1 fruit/vegetable, 1 grain, or 1 meat)
Total: (excluding snack) 3 milk, 5 fruit/veggie, 3 grain + choices for snack
This is her normal daily intake:
Breakfast : bottle, 1 piece of toast, oatmeal, and applesauce (1 milk, 2 grain, 1/2 grain, 1 fruit)
Lunch: Grilled Cheese, 1/2 babyfood veggie, fruit (2 grain, 1 meat, 1 veggie, 1 fruit)
Dinner: 1/2 Babyfood meal, peas & carrots, fruit (1 meat, 2 veggies, 1+ fruit)
Bedtime: bottle (1 milk)
Total: 2 milk, 6 fruit/veggie, 5ish grains, so she's short 1 milk and over by 2 grains and 1 f/v.
Yikes! No wonder she's got those chubby cheeks! I tried to scale it back today, but breakfast was rough because she was still hungry. Poor kid.
Here's today:
Breakfast: bottle, 1 small banana/wheat muffin, applesauce, a few cheerios (1 milk, 1+ grain, 1+ fruit)
Lunch: 1/2 grilled cheese, 1/2 babyfood peas, 1/2 pear (2 grain, 1 meat, 1 veggie, 1 fruit)
Dinner: 2 oz of milk, 1/2 babyfood meal, peas & carrots, banana, 1/2 zwieback toast (1/2 milk, 1 meat, 1+ veggie, 1+ fruit, 1/2 grain)
Total: 2 1/2 milk, 6 f/v, 5 grain. Grrr! I thought we did better than that. I didn't even include the juice she drinks :(
I guess we're not horrible and she's not huge, but I'd rather not be overfeeding her. I'm really careful about what I feed her. We try to do all fresh fruit, but if we can't I do no sugar added canned varieties. We're going to try some frozen. So, I'm really careful about her sugar intake. She still only drinks juice that is 50/50 with water or just water. She only gets whole wheat noodles, homemade muffins with whole wheat flour, and whole wheat bread.
I guess I wouldn't be me if I didn't have something to stress about, right?
posted by Lindsay @ 9:57 PM
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2 Comments:
Lindsay-
Don't worry too much about the food intake! You are not horribly off the "recommendations". That is exactly what they are, recommendations. All children are different and need different levels of nutrition. You are not feeding her junk. The more mobile she gets, she will lose some of that chunk that you are talking about. Unless her ped is concerned about her weight, I would not worry!
My ped told me there are many recommendations out there for how much a child should be eating. He also told me that some days (or weeks) Adam will eat a lot and other days he won't and told me not to worry about it. As long as he is growing and developing, I really don't need to be concerned. As long as the things he's eating are healthy choices, and not chocolate bars etc it's all ok.
She's beautiful by the way!!
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