Anyone else have a slowww eater?

[grassisgreener]

My daughter 5.5 wcf is a pretty slow eater. My son is 2.5 nocf and he eats 2-3 times the amount in much less than half the time! She just doesn't have much of an appetite and also is very social and would rather talk or play than eat. It gets frustrating!

 

[grassisgreener]

My daughter 5.5 wcf is a pretty slow eater. My son is 2.5 nocf and he eats 2-3 times the amount in much less than half the time! She just doesn't have much of an appetite and also is very social and would rather talk or play than eat. It gets frustrating!

 

[grassisgreener]

My daughter 5.5 wcf is a pretty slow eater. My son is 2.5 nocf and he eats 2-3 times the amount in much less than half the time! She just doesn't have much of an appetite and also is very social and would rather talk or play than eat. It gets frustrating!

 

[grassisgreener]

My daughter 5.5 wcf is a pretty slow eater. My son is 2.5 nocf and he eats 2-3 times the amount in much less than half the time! She just doesn't have much of an appetite and also is very social and would rather talk or play than eat. It gets frustrating!

 

[grassisgreener]

My daughter 5.5 wcf is a pretty slow eater. My son is 2.5 nocf and he eats 2-3 times the amount in much less than half the time! She just doesn't have much of an appetite and also is very social and would rather talk or play than eat. It gets frustrating!

 

[Murgie]

Our son with CF has always been an unusaually slow eater, so much so that we had to do some enzymes at first, another in the middle and maybe even one at the end of his meals.
It went un-recognized for so long that we seemed to adjust as a family.
It ended up Sam had acid reflux and it bothered him to eat, let alone eat fast , he still is a slow eater at age 11, but healthy and willing to try foods he was afraid of before because it hurt to eat.

 

[Murgie]

Our son with CF has always been an unusaually slow eater, so much so that we had to do some enzymes at first, another in the middle and maybe even one at the end of his meals.
It went un-recognized for so long that we seemed to adjust as a family.
It ended up Sam had acid reflux and it bothered him to eat, let alone eat fast , he still is a slow eater at age 11, but healthy and willing to try foods he was afraid of before because it hurt to eat.

 

[Murgie]

Our son with CF has always been an unusaually slow eater, so much so that we had to do some enzymes at first, another in the middle and maybe even one at the end of his meals.
It went un-recognized for so long that we seemed to adjust as a family.
It ended up Sam had acid reflux and it bothered him to eat, let alone eat fast , he still is a slow eater at age 11, but healthy and willing to try foods he was afraid of before because it hurt to eat.

 

[Murgie]

Our son with CF has always been an unusaually slow eater, so much so that we had to do some enzymes at first, another in the middle and maybe even one at the end of his meals.
It went un-recognized for so long that we seemed to adjust as a family.
It ended up Sam had acid reflux and it bothered him to eat, let alone eat fast , he still is a slow eater at age 11, but healthy and willing to try foods he was afraid of before because it hurt to eat.

 

[Murgie]

Our son with CF has always been an unusaually slow eater, so much so that we had to do some enzymes at first, another in the middle and maybe even one at the end of his meals.
<br />It went un-recognized for so long that we seemed to adjust as a family.
<br />It ended up Sam had acid reflux and it bothered him to eat, let alone eat fast , he still is a slow eater at age 11, but healthy and willing to try foods he was afraid of before because it hurt to eat.

 

[jendonl]

Oh boy is she ever slow! Our 5yo CF daughter and my husband have turned meal times into fights. I'm afraid what this will do long term to her eating habits. She eats almost nothing and takes 30 minutes to eat it. She holds a small amount of food in her mouth for many minutes and "can't" swallow it. Sometimes, she ends up throwing up. Usually she has to "go potty" in the middle of the meal. Anything to get out of eating.

She never wants to try anything new and when we make her try something, she of course, hates it.

We've tried everything from ignoring bad behavior, praising good behavior, bribes, spanking...Nothing works. Nothing is a big enough motivator to get her to eat. She is very strong willed. It is SO frustrating, sometimes I could just scream (sometimes I do.) We even went through intensive therapy with a psychologist.

I can only hope that she grows out of it.

 

[jendonl]

Oh boy is she ever slow! Our 5yo CF daughter and my husband have turned meal times into fights. I'm afraid what this will do long term to her eating habits. She eats almost nothing and takes 30 minutes to eat it. She holds a small amount of food in her mouth for many minutes and "can't" swallow it. Sometimes, she ends up throwing up. Usually she has to "go potty" in the middle of the meal. Anything to get out of eating.

She never wants to try anything new and when we make her try something, she of course, hates it.

We've tried everything from ignoring bad behavior, praising good behavior, bribes, spanking...Nothing works. Nothing is a big enough motivator to get her to eat. She is very strong willed. It is SO frustrating, sometimes I could just scream (sometimes I do.) We even went through intensive therapy with a psychologist.

I can only hope that she grows out of it.

 

[jendonl]

Oh boy is she ever slow! Our 5yo CF daughter and my husband have turned meal times into fights. I'm afraid what this will do long term to her eating habits. She eats almost nothing and takes 30 minutes to eat it. She holds a small amount of food in her mouth for many minutes and "can't" swallow it. Sometimes, she ends up throwing up. Usually she has to "go potty" in the middle of the meal. Anything to get out of eating.

She never wants to try anything new and when we make her try something, she of course, hates it.

We've tried everything from ignoring bad behavior, praising good behavior, bribes, spanking...Nothing works. Nothing is a big enough motivator to get her to eat. She is very strong willed. It is SO frustrating, sometimes I could just scream (sometimes I do.) We even went through intensive therapy with a psychologist.

I can only hope that she grows out of it.

 

[jendonl]

Oh boy is she ever slow! Our 5yo CF daughter and my husband have turned meal times into fights. I'm afraid what this will do long term to her eating habits. She eats almost nothing and takes 30 minutes to eat it. She holds a small amount of food in her mouth for many minutes and "can't" swallow it. Sometimes, she ends up throwing up. Usually she has to "go potty" in the middle of the meal. Anything to get out of eating.

She never wants to try anything new and when we make her try something, she of course, hates it.

We've tried everything from ignoring bad behavior, praising good behavior, bribes, spanking...Nothing works. Nothing is a big enough motivator to get her to eat. She is very strong willed. It is SO frustrating, sometimes I could just scream (sometimes I do.) We even went through intensive therapy with a psychologist.

I can only hope that she grows out of it.

 

[jendonl]

Oh boy is she ever slow! Our 5yo CF daughter and my husband have turned meal times into fights. I'm afraid what this will do long term to her eating habits. She eats almost nothing and takes 30 minutes to eat it. She holds a small amount of food in her mouth for many minutes and "can't" swallow it. Sometimes, she ends up throwing up. Usually she has to "go potty" in the middle of the meal. Anything to get out of eating.
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<br />She never wants to try anything new and when we make her try something, she of course, hates it.
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<br />We've tried everything from ignoring bad behavior, praising good behavior, bribes, spanking...Nothing works. Nothing is a big enough motivator to get her to eat. She is very strong willed. It is SO frustrating, sometimes I could just scream (sometimes I do.) We even went through intensive therapy with a psychologist.
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<br />I can only hope that she grows out of it.
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[Ratatosk]

Glad to hear I'm not alone. Drives me nuts how he can keep food pocketed in his cheeks for soooo long. Just have to continue to tell myself that "meal times are happy times"

Oh and last night after school he surprised me (not usually a sweets person) by asking for chocolate "the kind we use to make smores". So I opened up a hershey bar and broke it up into the little sections and he ATE the whole thing and then asked his dad for another. Nice 460 calorie "snack" -- and he still managed to eat fairly well for dinner. Granted it was gymnastics night and he always gets his choice of fast food afterwards -- Pizza crackers from the gym vending machine and extra serving for french fries for the drive home. And then he sat down and ate a kids chicken nugget meal, milk and another serving of fries.

Don't want to get too excited -- he'll probably ask for a peanut on a potato chip for tonights supper. Ugh!

 

[Ratatosk]

Glad to hear I'm not alone. Drives me nuts how he can keep food pocketed in his cheeks for soooo long. Just have to continue to tell myself that "meal times are happy times"

Oh and last night after school he surprised me (not usually a sweets person) by asking for chocolate "the kind we use to make smores". So I opened up a hershey bar and broke it up into the little sections and he ATE the whole thing and then asked his dad for another. Nice 460 calorie "snack" -- and he still managed to eat fairly well for dinner. Granted it was gymnastics night and he always gets his choice of fast food afterwards -- Pizza crackers from the gym vending machine and extra serving for french fries for the drive home. And then he sat down and ate a kids chicken nugget meal, milk and another serving of fries.

Don't want to get too excited -- he'll probably ask for a peanut on a potato chip for tonights supper. Ugh!

 

[Ratatosk]

Glad to hear I'm not alone. Drives me nuts how he can keep food pocketed in his cheeks for soooo long. Just have to continue to tell myself that "meal times are happy times"

Oh and last night after school he surprised me (not usually a sweets person) by asking for chocolate "the kind we use to make smores". So I opened up a hershey bar and broke it up into the little sections and he ATE the whole thing and then asked his dad for another. Nice 460 calorie "snack" -- and he still managed to eat fairly well for dinner. Granted it was gymnastics night and he always gets his choice of fast food afterwards -- Pizza crackers from the gym vending machine and extra serving for french fries for the drive home. And then he sat down and ate a kids chicken nugget meal, milk and another serving of fries.

Don't want to get too excited -- he'll probably ask for a peanut on a potato chip for tonights supper. Ugh!

 

[Ratatosk]

Glad to hear I'm not alone. Drives me nuts how he can keep food pocketed in his cheeks for soooo long. Just have to continue to tell myself that "meal times are happy times"

Oh and last night after school he surprised me (not usually a sweets person) by asking for chocolate "the kind we use to make smores". So I opened up a hershey bar and broke it up into the little sections and he ATE the whole thing and then asked his dad for another. Nice 460 calorie "snack" -- and he still managed to eat fairly well for dinner. Granted it was gymnastics night and he always gets his choice of fast food afterwards -- Pizza crackers from the gym vending machine and extra serving for french fries for the drive home. And then he sat down and ate a kids chicken nugget meal, milk and another serving of fries.

Don't want to get too excited -- he'll probably ask for a peanut on a potato chip for tonights supper. Ugh!

 

[Ratatosk]

Glad to hear I'm not alone. Drives me nuts how he can keep food pocketed in his cheeks for soooo long. Just have to continue to tell myself that "meal times are happy times"
<br />
<br />Oh and last night after school he surprised me (not usually a sweets person) by asking for chocolate "the kind we use to make smores". So I opened up a hershey bar and broke it up into the little sections and he ATE the whole thing and then asked his dad for another. Nice 460 calorie "snack" -- and he still managed to eat fairly well for dinner. Granted it was gymnastics night and he always gets his choice of fast food afterwards -- Pizza crackers from the gym vending machine and extra serving for french fries for the drive home. And then he sat down and ate a kids chicken nugget meal, milk and another serving of fries.
<br />
<br />Don't want to get too excited -- he'll probably ask for a peanut on a potato chip for tonights supper. Ugh!