I used to find mealtimes with my babies so stressful sometimes 🙈 .
I’d read all the blogs, books and guidelines on what and how much they should be eating and when they didn’t eat what they were ‘supposed’ to I’d feel like a failure 🤦🏽♀️ .
But, after a chat with my mum and a few friends who have little ones, I realised that one size does not fit fall when it comes to humans! Even little humans can have days when they don’t fancy much to eat or they don’t fancy what is put in front of them...it doesn’t mean failure or bad parenting. It just means their human! .
Lil Pud would normally scoff down her lunchy lunch in a blink but today she picked at it and was unbothered...before that would have made me anxious and worried that I’d gone wrong with her food or she wasn’t eating enough, when truth be told she just wasn’t in the mood to eat🤷🏾♀️ .
An hour later she was trying to get after an apple I was munching so I offered her some with some loaf with peanut butter and she almost took my hand off! 🤣 .
My point is...the same way we don’t always fancy something to eat at a specific time that society tells us we should eat, or we don’t fancy that food we usually love, children are the same! I don’t see the point in stressing out if they don’t eat as much as you think they should or when they should or worry about rigid timescales for their food - as long as they’re getting a healthy balanced diet and quality nutrition in a 24 hour period then you’re doing alright I’d say💯 .
And if they’re lit AF with energy and happy as Peppa Pig in muddy puddles then chances are they’re well fed, fuelled alert - and that’s far from falling in my humble knackered mummy opinion😁👌🏾😌 . .
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