With DS, one thing he does with fruit is suck the juice out and spit out the flesh, but he wont go near grapes, even if I peal them, and same with sandwiches... Some just get licked and fed to the dogs...
And hun, with the weetbix, are you using the kids ones? cause they are heaps lower in salt that the adult ones and a bit easier on little livers... I thought it was a marketing ploy, but when you check the salt content there is quite a difference, and if you eat them, you can really tell... So I made the switch...
It's a shame we don't live closer together. Our kids would be able to play together! In their own little 'clefty club'!
Our little guy has:
Bottle of formula on wake-up (we offer a 150 ml bottle - but he will often only take a few sips of it. Sometimes he'll drain it!)
Breakky: tub of yoghurt or 1 weet bix with fruit puree & milk (or yoghurt) or toast or bread or cruskits
Lunch: usually sandwich or cruskits and jar of pureed fruit (he also doesn't like the real stuff!) - or whatever we're having. I've got portions of spaghetti bolognaise with small pasta tubes in the freezer - we sometimes give him one of these for lunch too.
Bottle for nap (anywhere between 100 - 300 mls).
Afternoon tea : rusks (like cheesymite sticks or mum-mum rusks) while on his afternoon walk with Dad or if they go to Bakers Delight - they'll have some of that (pizza, bread, bun, etc)
Dinner: whatever we're having. He really likes rice dishes (curry, risotto, etc) or pasta and will probably (on a good day) eat about 3/4 cup of food.
Usually will have 300ml formula at bedtime.
No dessert. We don't think he's eating enough yet to offer this. He'll sometimes have sweet biscuits at morning or afternoon tea (or after lunch) - but not after our evening meal.
He started eating late too because of the cleft. We really didn't do anything big until after his surgery in March (he was about 11.5 months old) - so Matilda's doing awesome in such a short space of time! Well done Mum!
Rufalina - I might get some of the kids ones now that she is actually eating them, I hate the thought of buying something like that and just feeding it to the dog.
Nettie - Thankyou so much for your reply, it didn't even occur to me to ask a cleft mumma .
It sounds like Matilda and Liam like similar foods, I think she is eating about half the amount of Liam but she is going well. I think that she will improve alot once her cleft is repaired, it has been postponed until late Jan or Feb, hopefully she will start drinking then too.
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