My 2 year olds are determined to survive on goldfish crackers and air apparently. They haven’t eaten a decent meal in a week! They’re still drinking milk, and I have managed to get some fruit into them, but they’re even turning down toast and quesadillas which they will ALWAYS eat. What gives?! So frustrating. My slight confession is that I was happy to come to work because they are at home with my Mom today, and therefore someone else’s frustration for 8 hours lol.
Best part - my work BFF and I are finally working together again after 3 years of combined maternity leaves. Yay!
OMG same. Seriously, he has not had dinner for like, 3 nights. And hardly any breakfast the last 2 days.
Sunday he had a sandwich while we were visiting friends, but that was it. Last night he had foods he usually likes (buttered noodles!!) and he threw them on the floor. So no dinner. This morning he did not want breakfast at all. So no breakfast.
crackers, pretzels, PBJ, SWEETS OF ANY KIND, most fruit. Macaroni and cheese. That's it. So fucking annoying.
My vent is that I’m concerned about DD2 language - she really has no words at 14 months.
I talked to my sister in law who is an SLP but of course lives across the country. She told me to start with a hearing screen. I called the pedi to find out where to go and they told me they do screens and we set up an appointment for today. We get to the pedi and the doctor is like we can’t do hearing screens for kids under 3 or 4 - they just have the standard ear phones and the equipment isn’t reliable enough for kids that young. She did tell me to get EI involved - that she is concerned about her delay.
If we hadn’t already met our deductible for the year I think I would be complaining about the charge for the visit since it was basically a waste.
An ENT does a full hearing test, maybe you can start there.
My vent is that I’m concerned about DD2 language - she really has no words at 14 months.
I talked to my sister in law who is an SLP but of course lives across the country. She told me to start with a hearing screen. I called the pedi to find out where to go and they told me they do screens and we set up an appointment for today. We get to the pedi and the doctor is like we can’t do hearing screens for kids under 3 or 4 - they just have the standard ear phones and the equipment isn’t reliable enough for kids that young. She did tell me to get EI involved - that she is concerned about her delay.
If we hadn’t already met our deductible for the year I think I would be complaining about the charge for the visit since it was basically a waste.
An ENT does a full hearing test, maybe you can start there.
EI will do it for free at the same audiologist the doctor recommended so we are going to go there. She saw an ENT for tubes and they said a hearing test would be useless then since she would fail because she had so much fluid in her ears. Honestly no one is really concerned about her hearing since she got the tubes in March but it’s a box we need to check before they will start speech services (which does make sense).
Question - Ds1 started kindergarten today and has eaten way less than usual. Could it be the stress of a new school and longer day? He ate a good breakfast, said he ate his whole lunch, mini chips ahoy snack at school and a fruit/veggies/yogurt pouch after school. He barely touched one of his favorite dinners and just had a glass of milk.
My kids always did this because they saw lunch as a social hour instead of actually spending it eating :-)