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« on: February 03, 2010, 06:02:15 PM »

Ok- so Juliet has me thrown on when the heck to feed her. Help me out here ladies-
She wakes anywhere between 730 and 930. She won't eat before 9 no matter what time she wakes up. We usually have cereal and fruit, or on sunday we have pancakes or bacon and eggs with fruit. She won't eat anything else all morning (I leave out a little of a different fruit then we had for breakfast starting about  1/2 hours after breakfast), so goes down for her nap 11 ish and sleeps til 1 when we have lunch
(a veggie with something -sandwhiches or leftovers or SOMETHING- today was carrots with beef ravioli and chicken bites). She then spends all afternoon eating me out of house and home- today it was an adult handful of blueberries, 1/2 dozen pineapple cubes, goldfish, and a few of my animal crackers. She gets more veggies at dinner.
I'm at a loss as the when dinner should be... I mean we don't eat lunch until 1, sometimes as late as 2, but by 4 she is signing "eat". But she goes to bed by 730! I just feel like 4 is too early to have dinner, but if I give her a snack at 4, that would push dinner back to 6ish and we're starting her debtime routine by then (and if I don't she's a hot mess!).
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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2010, 06:36:43 PM »

I feed Eli when he's hungry. Dinner sometimes he has to wait for but I have it ready late, for when Eric gets home from work, between 6:30-7, so I let him have a decent sized snack after his nap if he wants it.
He's the opposite though, he eats me out of house and home ALL morning lol
I'd feed her when she's hungry. And if it's kinda early, give her 'dessert' or as Eli calls it "night snack" awhile before bed. And it doesn't have to be sweet, he's totally happy with a yogurt in the evening.
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« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2010, 10:24:01 AM »

I always just fed the boys when they were hungry and didn't worry so much about which meal it was.

Of course - they were (and still are) so skinny I am just happy when they are eating :)
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« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2010, 03:44:45 PM »

We eat dinner at 5pm-5:30pm, and Evie goes to bed at 7-7:30pm.
If she's having all that fruit and snacks etc all afternoon, then she doesn't really need a snack at 4pm as well I suppose.  But occasionally evie will have a snack as late as 4pm, and she'll usually still eat her dinner.

Our meal plan is as follows:
Wake up about 8am. 
Breakfast immediately - cereal and fruit (or boiled eggs and toast on a weekend)
Mid morning snack at about 10am - hopefully fruit, or dried fruit, sometimes a biscuit (cookie) or bit of cake
Lunch at 12pm - sandwich and salad, or soup and bread, or baked beans on toast etc
Mid afternoon snack at about 3pm - again, should be fruit, sometimes it isn't.  wink
Dinner at 5pm - pasta and sauce with veggies, or curry and rice or chilli and rice or whatever we're having really.  Yogurt for pudding.
That's it until bedtime at 7:30pm.  Sometimes she'll ask for another snack - and she can have fruit, but nothing else.  If she's genuinely hungry she'll eat the fruit, if she's just after a treat, then that's just tough!
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« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2010, 08:15:46 AM »

I feed when they are hungry also.. I read somewhere that kids have smaller stomach's, so they fill up faster and hungrier sooner. I know after Kailynn and Sethy have eaten dinner they are hungry again soon after dinner..
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