As of November 20, 2012:
Height - 37.5 inches (86th percentile)
Weight - 29.3 pounds (56th percentile)
Head - 50 cm (90th percentile)
So looking back on her last visit, Cate grew 3 inches and gained 3 pounds...in 6 months! Good Lord, no wonder she'd been so fussy, hungry and popping out of all shoes and clothes!
And what does a toddler do when she's done at the doctor and it's just her and her mama? She gets her hair cut and has a cute little ladies lunch at Souper Jenny. In classic Cate style, she mostly just ate her cookie and buttered roll.
I've also learned some mistakes we've been making at mealtimes with our picky eaters. Perhaps I should have read the hand-out from the doctor when I received it? Here are some guidelines on feeding a picky eater (i.e. feeding Cate) which we have been doing NONE of (care of Ellyn Satter Associates):
- Teach her to say "no, thank you" rather than "YUK." Have her leave the table if she behaves badly.
- Be family friendly with meals. Pair unfamiliar with familiar food, not-yet-liked with liked foods. Don't make special foods for her. [ok, maybe we got this one right]
- Let her pick and choose from what you put on the table, even if she eats five slices of bread and nothing else.
- Teach her to use her napkin to get food back out of her mouth when she discovers she doesn't want to swallow.
We've also been making some feeding errors:
- Failing to have structured meals and snacks and'or letting her eat or drink (except for water) whenever she wants to between times.
- Talking about your child's food likes and dislikes.
- Limiting the menu to food your child readily accepts.
- Putting pressure in any way on her eating. [woooooaaaah - we really suck here]
Oh well. Hopefully she's not terribly scarred. Thankfully, I'm typing this on Pizza Night (Friday) so I won't have to feel too guilty tonight about doing it wrong.
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