Dianne Cody

[Dianne Cody]

Thanks for the insight. He was breastfed till about 5.5 months and had a mix of homemade or organic options. He’s been fairly fussy from the beginning though did use to like legumes though these aren’t his favourite always though maybe I need to mash them up a bit more as he did eat them like that. We have mainly raw milk and for breakfast he will have eggs, porridge sometimes with molasses or fruit added, sometimes plain. He likes lots of milk with it. Sometimes weetbix, not usually many other options. He wouldn’t eat a muesli option – think too lumpy or too much texture for him. Water is the main option 90% of the time. It’s unusual for me to buy much processed foods like muesli type bars. His older sister often makes something for lunches though he doesn’t eat a lot of this. He will eat seaweed crackers for lunch, bigger corn crackers sometimes, ham and cheese sandwich or marmite sandwich, often on a spelt bread from the local wholefood place or vogels, plain popcorn. Have tried giving dinner left overs but these aren’t eaten as he doesn’t like to be too different to his mates I think. Always fruit and often something like a homemade muffin with limited sweeetner. Sometimes potato -often if in chip form best, no to kumara which would be a carb we eat a bit of, rice, sometimes pasta like a udon with salmon and mixed frozen vege he likes, butter chicken, meat often not eaten a lot of. He’s started to like lettuce, sometimes he will eat carrots, other times not. Loves kale chips. Sometimes broccolli, sometimes not Def no to nuts, will ocassionally eat a scorched almond as it has choc on but most of the time he doesn’t like chocolate. Probably fickle is a term I would use. Some other ideas here I will try, thanks.

[Dianne Cody]

Hi

Yes I agree, only this week after reading that did I realise that tears were a useful thing as I always am the one who sometimes says don’t cry when it seems that it’s not really a big deal. My 3 year old is looking at me a bit strangely this week when I ask him to keep crying and get it all out. Am getting better with verbalising the emotion, though he says I’m not angry, I’m not tired when that’s what I think and he is probably overwhelmed and not sure what emotional state he thinks he’s in. We are talking about it after the event, e.g the next day too just to try and process some things. We also had our first family meeting and the kids came up with a strategy of doing a stop sign when one or them or us as parents were getting too loud, so you were meant to stop and give a high-five to each other and then give them a hug. That is starting to work already they are both acknowledging that to each other. I’ve heard it mentioned a few times already this week. Thanks for the guidance and support.

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