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I give him a ton of braunschweiger liverwurst but I grew up eating that so I don’t think it’s weird. Everyone else does though. It’s probably normal in Germany. My wife gives him shrimp chips on occasion even though they’re total junk food. They taste like low tide and he loves them.
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space uncle posted:My 13 month old baby usually eats like a horse but either his teeth or development are really pissing him off. He takes 3 bites and then starts throwing everything as fast as he can. Our 14mo loving loves sauerkraut. But also yeah, he's been having a lot of development plus one year molars. And he's been keen on using spoons and forks, just not very effectively. So yeah, this all sounds normal, and it sounds like you're on the right track? Just keep a cloth handy to wipe up yourself/kid/highchair and another for the floor.
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space uncle posted:I give him a ton of braunschweiger liverwurst but I grew up eating that so I don’t think it’s weird. Everyone else does though. I gave my baby a shrimp chip the other day and she hated it. I love them though. My kid is real picky now and has stopped eating foods she used to like. I can’t get her to eat peas and carrots anymore for the life of me. I always let her try what I’m eating, but it’s rare that she likes it. Her diet is largely oatmeal, grapes, apples, pretzels, ham sausage, and egg noodles.
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Jan 25, 2022 15:57
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Nessa posted:I gave my baby a shrimp chip the other day and she hated it. I love them though. So my kid ate anything we gave him from when he started eating solids until about 2. Then at 2 he went through a real picky stage that lasted... I don't know, it felt like years. He's 8 now and generally eats pretty well again. It seems like that's a pretty normal pattern from what I can tell from all of my friends and families children... When they first start getting food they will eat literally anything and everything for the first months / a couple years and then goes into incredibly picky eating patterns for a while and then swings back.
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My daughter didn’t night train until she was 6.5. We tried off and on for years before then with alarms and other things. What eventually worked was doing dream pees about 2 hours after she went to sleep. It started with just carrying her and putting her on the toilet mostly fully asleep. It took weeks. Then she started being able to be awake for it without drama, and then she eventually progressed to waking herself up. Even now at 7 she often wakes herself up around that time to go to the bathroom, but it’s extremely extremely rare for her to have an incident in the bed (like 1-2 times a year). There was no rushing it earlier - her body and brain just couldn’t do it.
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Jan 25, 2022 17:27
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sheri posted:So my kid ate anything we gave him from when he started eating solids until about 2. Then at 2 he went through a real picky stage that lasted... I don't know, it felt like years. He's 8 now and generally eats pretty well again. Seconding this. I remember smugly showing off my baby eating all sorts of exotic foods. Now as a 3-year old his diet is pb&j, vegan chicken nuggets, cheeseburgers, and fruit. I’m really trying to get him back on track, but at this point it’s one more power struggle that I don’t feel like engaging in.
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Jan 25, 2022 17:36
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sheri posted:So my kid ate anything we gave him from when he started eating solids until about 2. Then at 2 he went through a real picky stage that lasted... I don't know, it felt like years. He's 8 now and generally eats pretty well again. Thank goodness. It feels like my three year old subsides on chicken nuggets, pretzels, toaster strudels/cinnamon rolls, and apples/oranges/bananas. It's really frustrating and he's in a very low percentile but just refuses to eat. Both of my boys were great eaters for so long, but yeah, around 2.5-3 they just stopped. I'm glad to know that I just have to ride it out.
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The ogre toddler's basically been on a veggie strike shortly after he turned two as well. Kid inhales anything meat or fruit related but the closest to veggies he gets are spicy roasted crispy chickpeas (which he also inhales) or whatever is in his pouch. Even the curry roasted cauliflower isn't doing it. He's currently in the middle of his third speech therapy session and it is *adorable*. Picking up more and more signs. And the look of concentration on his face as he picks out the right one to use is just as adorable.
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Douche4Sale posted:Thank goodness. It feels like my three year old subsides on chicken nuggets, pretzels, toaster strudels/cinnamon rolls, and apples/oranges/bananas. It's really frustrating and he's in a very low percentile but just refuses to eat. Both of my boys were great eaters for so long, but yeah, around 2.5-3 they just stopped. I'm glad to know that I just have to ride it out. #1 and #2 have autism and are incredibly picky eaters. Breakfast is usually one of half a dozen cereals, toaster waffles, or maybe once a week Pop-Tarts. Lunch is typically a peanut butter and [nutella, cheese, jelly] sandwich, dinner is usually one of the above or chicken nuggets or french toast sticks. They all love applesauce, key lime Great Value yogurt, and various brands of Go-Gurt, though, so we have that. And loving fruit snacks. I'm sick of loving fruit snacks.
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Yeah, my daughter is 3 and... same. There is an extremely short list of what she will eat. It no longer includes chicken nuggets, burgers, fries, or most other common "kid" foods, either. One night I made rice balls and she only ate the nori. Heck, I made a cake (which she enthusiastically helped with, every step of the way). Just a simple one with whipped cream and berries. She had one bite and was done. She is currently living mainly on cheerios and apples.
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Jan 25, 2022 18:02
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I feel lucky that broccoli and carrots survived the great taste culling so we can still get some veggies in him. He started refusing things more around 18 months for us, just turned 2 so I hope there’s not another narrowing coming soon  We have a list of about 15 dinners that he’ll eat at least part of but I’m already so sick of all of them. He’s also incredibly picky about how things are served. If a banana piece breaks off in any way besides taking a bite he immediately throws a fit about it being broken and demands we put it back together. Tried using peanut butter as glue for him one time but it was apparently unsightly.
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Jan 25, 2022 18:44
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My son had his 15-month checkup today, and the doctor recommended doing early intervention because he is still not talking. Feeling optimistic that it’ll help (he does tons of babbling and pointing so I feel like he just needs a little push in the right direction).
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Jan 25, 2022 19:48
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I think 15 months is totally normal for not talking, there seems to be a lot of milestones literature online that says 12 months olds should have a couple words but our doctor assured us that wasn’t true, and sure enough at like 16 months our guy started to grow a little five word vocabulary. But there is no real downside to the speech therapy so absolutely do it if you want to.
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Jan 25, 2022 19:57
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Yeah, our doctor at the 15 month appointment was just looking for 3 words. I didn't get the sense that if he didn't have that many he would need intervention, but yeah, it probably can't hurt.
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Jan 25, 2022 20:03
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Eggnogium posted:I feel lucky that broccoli and carrots survived the great taste culling so we can still get some veggies in him. He started refusing things more around 18 months for us, just turned 2 so I hope there’s not another narrowing coming soon Oh God yes, if the banana breaks it is clearly no good anymore. I tried the whole "now you have two bananas" but it failed. Weirdest one by far is my 5 year old refuses all types of Mac and cheese and also spaghetti. I didn't know that was possible. It's especially rough because those are two of the 3 year olds favorites.
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Jan 25, 2022 20:19
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My three year old has always hated Mac and cheese. All varieties.
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Jan 25, 2022 20:32
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I am grateful for food chat. My one year old apparently chows down at daycare but getting him to eat at home is terrible. He thinks it’s hilarious to look us in the eye and toss his food to the floor. Spoon feeding him is a no-go because he wants to feed himself. It took 45 minutes to get him to eat two chicken nuggets last night. I’m just worried because we are transitioning away from formula and I want to make sure he’s consuming enough calories. Maybe he just hates the high chair? I don’t know.
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WELP Wake up this morning and it looks like it's going to be a normal day. Should have been my first clue... As I'm finishing breakfast I get a text from my wife (upstairs), "Can you get the kids ready, I'm not feeling well." OK, sounds like a stomach bug. Let her rest while I get the kids going. Naturally, grab some at-home rapid tests on the way back, because better safe than sorry. She tests positive. I take one, and I'm also positive. Fan-loving-tastic. Call day care, grab the kids, and now we're stuck home with them for 10 days. Really 12, because the last day of isolation is a Friday... Oldest somehow tested negative, and the rapid test we have is not indicated for under 2 years, so our youngest is a question mark for now. But ultimately that doesn't matter, because the isolation is based on us being positive not the kids. So even if they never catch it, they've got to stay home. We have PCR tests lined up for all 4 of us tomorrow, but the chance of getting 2 false positives is closer to zero than I care to consider... I'm not going to say we're officially lepers, but near as makes no difference. The PCR is just going to confirm it. Not sure who to blame here... a bunch of people in my wife's office are sick, but she hasn't been there for over a month. I'm boosted, but I know there are a few unvaccinated people in my office, and they're all horrendous about masking, so I may have picked it up last week during the entire 2 days I was in last week. Most likely one of the kids brought it home from day care, but who knows... day care claims no recent positives, but that doesn't mean anything because it could easily be asymptomatic in kids that young. And to be sure, we're both 3x vaccinated. My booster was more recent, but my wife's was only like 3 months ago I think. edit: and kids are too young, of course, or else they'd have their vaccines too. 
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Jan 25, 2022 20:46
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Against omicron the vaccine, even with booster, does very little to prevent infection and spread. It does prevent severe illness effectively though.
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My kiddo popped positive last night too. My husband and I are just waiting for it to show up for us.
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sheri posted:So my kid ate anything we gave him from when he started eating solids until about 2. Then at 2 he went through a real picky stage that lasted... I don't know, it felt like years. He's 8 now and generally eats pretty well again. Mine is 15 months, so I hope it doesn’t get worse. I know popcorn is considered a choking hazard, but I had given her some white cheddar popcorn before I knew that and she absolutely loves the stuff. She’s never had an issue with eating it and it’s always supervised, so I’d rather not take away one of the handful of foods that I know for sure she’ll eat. Toast, watermelon, Cheerios, goldfish, pretzels, grapes, apples, egg noodles, rice, sometimes blueberries, most baby food pouches, sometimes cheese, ice cream, chocolate, and cookies. That’s basically her diet. Her weight has always been on the low side, so I let her have a couple Teddy grahams, a piece of chocolate or some ice cream as a treat. Oh, I did find out the other day that she’ll eat McDonald’s hash browns, which is the only way to get potato in her. There’s a lot I can’t feed her because of her egg allergy. She can’t move up on the egg ladder to fresh egg noodles until she has a full serving of dried egg noodles every day for 2 weeks. She will have a full serving maybe 3 times a week. The rest of the time she has 3 noodles and throws the rest on the floor. Dinner has been egg noodles for 6 months now.
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Eggnogium posted:Against omicron the vaccine, even with booster, does very little to prevent infection and spread. It does prevent severe illness effectively though. Yup, knew it was a matter of time. The biggest concern has always been the amount of time we'd need to take off work, and here we are... And to be sure, any anger/frustration we have is directed... let's say externally. Not the thread for it, but I think it's obvious to this crowd why we're so pissed.
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DaveSauce posted:Yup, knew it was a matter of time. The biggest concern has always been the amount of time we'd need to take off work, and here we are... Yeah I feel for you. We just burned a week at home for what we thought must be Covid but ended up being an ear infection. Now I’m terrified we’ll get it in the next couple weeks and have to stay home again.
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Oh hey, food and covid chat. My 4yo did the eat everything to eat very little. It could be worse, we do go through a lot of cheese and yogurt, and he's acceptable about eating at daycare. Definitely a lot of "OH NO It's broken!" and a very tired Dad convincing him it all tastes the same. It's working enough that he does finish eating the horribly broken banana/pretzel/cheese slice. Good milestone: Started actually pooping in the potty. Bad milestone: Got covid over his birthday. From daycare, where no other kids tested positive, somehow. Wife and I tested negative, luckily the baby never got any symptoms. I still had paternity time left so my holiday vacation turned into a long, not very restful "vacation". Kid never lost any speed or energy. Yikes. 6mo is doing well, she's had a rough few days from the 6mo vaccination regimen, but is pretty perky. Hair continues to stand straight up. Current favorite activity is to get one parent to hold you so you can watch the other parent. PPD sucks though. Trying to keep everything in motion and support my wife is exhausting. I know she appreciates it though, and the kids are super affectionate, so there's some golden payoff moments in there. Allergy chat - he's allergic to shrimp, eggs, oats, and rye. Shrimp has sent us to the ER twice now, so we're a little gunshy about testing out of anything while covid is rampaging the hospitals. Makes breakfast pretty rough. Hash browns from Dunkin or Manhattan Bagel have been pretty useful when we're getting other things.
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Eggnogium posted:Against omicron the vaccine, even with booster, does very little to prevent infection and spread. It does prevent severe illness effectively though. Yeah It's bad enough that pfizer is already manufacturing an omicron specific vaccine, it's going up for approval soon. Supposedly it's targeting additional variants too. This is as of Jan 14 anyways Originally (2 years ago) it was basically perfect immunity for healthy individuals, dropped effacacy by about half for delta, and it's... Less than that for omicron which is much evolved from the original virus the vaccine was developed for. People in the ICU now are 40-50% fully vaccinated depending on what region you're in Looking forward to an omicron specific booster if and when it gets released  Took our kid in for a PCR this morning
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Hadlock posted:Yeah Can you share your source for this? This is a much higher percentage of vaccinated people in the ICU that I've seen in any other study or data collection and analysis or news article.
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sheri posted:Can you share your source for this? This is a much higher percentage of vaccinated people in the ICU that I've seen in any other study or data collection and analysis or news article. That is probably in a highly vaccinated community, so the vaccine efficacy is balanced against the fact that there are just way more vaccinated people. Here’s an article showing some per population numbers for vaccinated vs unvaccinated: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/briefing/omicron-deaths-vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated.html
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remigious posted:I am grateful for food chat. My one year old apparently chows down at daycare but getting him to eat at home is terrible. He thinks it’s hilarious to look us in the eye and toss his food to the floor. Spoon feeding him is a no-go because he wants to feed himself. It took 45 minutes to get him to eat two chicken nuggets last night. I’m just worried because we are transitioning away from formula and I want to make sure he’s consuming enough calories. Maybe he just hates the high chair? I don’t know. This is what I was trying to describe with my kiddo, he does the same things. It doesn’t help that the two dogs are circling his high chair like starving hyenas begging for scraps to be thrown and licking his messy little hands. Been locking them up during meals to remove 1 extra distraction. It kind of goes in cycles though, I feel like if he messes around for a couple meals the next one he eats a lot. He also drinks a lot of whole milk and will usually eat cheese or fruit for a good snack. We dropped formula at age 1 without too much fanfare and never really looked back.
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Washington state and somewhere in the northeast, new Hampshire maybe. I can go dig for it after work hours
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loving wild. My friends, both vaccinated and their 3 year old. The husband has Covid but the other two don’t. They’re super cautious too.
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I was changing our daughter's diaper and when I came back from throwing it away she goes daddy I have a hole. She was spread open wondering whats its for. I told her the proper scientific name and what it's for and she goes babies live there? Lol fun times.
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space uncle posted:This is what I was trying to describe with my kiddo, he does the same things. It doesn’t help that the two dogs are circling his high chair like starving hyenas begging for scraps to be thrown and licking his messy little hands. Been locking them up during meals to remove 1 extra distraction. Lol same deal with our dogs (well, down to one dog since Sunday when we had to put the pug to rest). I feel sort of at fault because I can’t help but smile when he defiantly throws food, it’s so drat cute but you need to eat little buddy! Nothing to do but keep trying and hope he’s eating enough.
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My 3.5yo also got picky food-wise around 2, so he eats chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, broccoli, pizza rolls, pepperoni, and other various things that aren’t consistent. Which is insane how much he won’t eat anymore, because we just caught him last night dipping his English muffin pizza into his milk and putting it in his mouth, chewing and swallowing without even flinching. Just a normal day! Re: Covid, I had my first day back at work today after 5 days isolation, and if I didn’t know I got it from the kids due to a positive case in both their classrooms, I’d think I got it from work because zero people mask up there. One coworker straight-up told me he “doesn’t believe in covid.” Son never showed symptoms but my 9mo daughter has been coughing and sneezing up…just ridiculous amounts of phlegm in the past week. She also developed an ear infection, which we are hoping is the only thing left to cause all the snot and coughing. She started antibiotics last night for that, but is having pretty miserable nights.
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Hadlock posted:Looking forward to an omicron specific booster if and when it gets released Same. Also looking forward to the FDA taking two more loving years to approve it for kids, citing some rare side effect that COVID causes in orders of magnitude greater frequency, while the entire pediatric medical world screams at them.
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Day two of isolating with a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old and no spouse (because she's isolating). Patience and sanity are running thin.
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I'm really glad they're being cautious, demonstrating that they're not just slamming 5G mind control into our veins, but also, guys I think you've demonstrated you've been sufficiently cautious at this point I heard the other day a call to make the vaccines approved for off label use. Basically it deems it biologically safe to inject, but doesn't guarantee effectiveness, and leaves it up to the doctor (or something vaguely like that, I'm not a doctor) I would sign my kid up so fast for a shot, just to cross that off my list of things I have zero control over
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No pediatrician is going to prescribe a COVID vaccine "off label". You can't just do the "adjust dosage for weight" thing they do for other drugs. The immune system is very complex, and children are not just tiny adults. The reason Pfizer hasn't applied for EUA for under five is that the current two course vaccine isn't effective enough so they're modifying the study to include a booster. Yes it's frustrating as a parent that there isn't approval but just waving a wand isn't going to fix it. They actually have to conduct the research.
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Shifty Pony posted:Same. I haven't been following... last I heard, the delay was because they under-dosed 6mo-5y? So now they're extending the trial to include a 3rd shot to boost efficacy (because changing dose and re-doing a 2-shot series would be a massive setback time-wise). I thought the concerns about myocarditis were studied and "dismissed," for lack of a better term, due to it being temporary, mostly non-life threatening, and because of the greater risk of getting it from covid.
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DaveSauce posted:I haven't been following... last I heard, the delay was because they under-dosed 6mo-5y? So now they're extending the trial to include a 3rd shot to boost efficacy (because changing dose and re-doing a 2-shot series would be a massive setback time-wise). Honestly the spread of omicron might make pediatric vaccinations effectively moot for kids today, but it's important they work it out for kids born after the omicron wave passes.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Honestly the spread of omicron might make pediatric vaccinations effectively moot for kids today, but it's important they work it out for kids born after the omicron wave passes. Yup, once they get approvals for 6mo-5y, tweaking for future variants should be able to breeze through approvals. If future variants are as vaccine-resistant as omicron, this could be super important. And don't forget about re-infections since natural immunity wanes (just like vaccine-induced immunity, though IIRC not as quickly).
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