Hi moms! Happy Monday! Hah. right. My son is almost 10 months old. My ped said he is healthy, but on the "twiggy" side. He has been BF and we are still going strong. He has 3 meals a day and snacks. But I worry he's not getting enough calories in. All the wonderful homemade food I make for him with veggies and fruits and organic stuff is great, but not all of it is very calorie-rich. He usually eats yogurt with fruit for breakfast, sometimes oatmeal (I'll put whole fat yogurt in that too) for breakfast. He won't do eggs :( He loves buttered toast fingers as well. I've been making recipes from Anna Karmel's book (chicken w/ potatoes, milk, corn... beef casserole, all sorts of yummy stuff) He eats well, but I am worried he's not getting enough fat, and I know that is SO important right now. Any other suggestions? He seems to always have hard poops, so we're trying to stay away from binding foods. I've also been adding extra butter in things, but I don't want to do too much cheese, since he is prone to constipation. . .
---- the ped was not worried, just said to give him whole fat foods -----
Personally, I would leave it alone....and use whole milk, real butter, olive oils, etc to prepare his meals. I would be more worried an=bout the hard poos--and increase the pears, peaches, peas, prunes, water, etc.
But here's a site with some suggestions:
http://blog.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com/high-calorie-b...
Avocados are great. You can also add a tablespoon of nonfat dry milk powder to each sippy cup of milk when you move to that.
I am also the mom of a "stick." His pedi worried the first year, but at the one year check up he looked at the height vs weight chart and saw that there was a consistent pattern. He said that indicated that it's just his body type and nothing to worry about.
My daughter is slim too and she loves avacado or guacamole. Plenty of fat but it is still a veggie. She also had constipation issues until about age 2. Benefiber once a day in her milk solved that problem. She lived on cheese as a baby and young toddler.
Avocado comes to mind! DD loved it as a baby. I found an easy way to pre-prep - slice very thin and freeze the slices on a cookie sheet, then place the frozen slices in a ziplock freezer bag. To thaw, I'd take a couple slices out of the bag and put in a cheapie sandwich bag (the kind with no zipper). I'd mash it in my hands until it was thawed and thoroughly squished, then snip a corner and pipe it out onto a bowl like icing. She'd gobble it up with a spoon.
Personally I wouldn't do anything except maybe encourage him to nurse more. Breastmilk is MUCH more nutrient dense than any of the solids...
Marscapone cheese is an Italian kind of cream cheese (although not tart tasting). It tastes like very very rich creamy heavy whipped cream. You can use it to make pasta cream sauces and I'm sure you can come up with other uses. I could eat it straight, but I've only had it in the house once because it has so many calories/fat in it.
I went through this with my son. He put on 2 pounds last month but still looks skinny. He is very tall for his age , so I guess that makes a difference.
My son didn't put on a lot of weight 10-13 months of age. This was the age he had started crawling and cruising and then walking, so he hardly put on any weight. He used to be super active(still is).
These are the fatty foods I give him: full fat milk and yogurt, full fat cheese , egg (almost every other day) , lot of full fat butter , avacadoes , banana , potatoes, other carb rich foods like rice, greek yogurt , brocolli cheese soup etc
It doesn't mean my son eats all these all the time, somedays he just refuses them. But I look over the food he eats over the course of a week and make sure he is eating enough.
There was a time he wouldn't eat anything much for M. (he used to be sick often because he started daycare) and his pediatrician had asked M. to give Pediasure on days he doesn't eat much at all. I gave this for a couple weeks I guess.
Your son is still too young to have all of the above foods I have mentioned. After he is a year old , you can give him peanut butter sandwiches etc
What percentile is he in for weight? My son was in <5 percentile and so he had to see all kinds of professionals for his lack of weight gain. If it's a serious concern I'd talk to a dietitian about how to add calories. (that's what I did through the doctor) They would also recommend adding calories through thing such as pediasure, etc. I know he's too young, but Pediasure has 240 calories vs. 150 calories in Whole milk. ONLY do pediasure under the doctor's supervision. My son's is a medical need and insurance pays for it.
I also 100% agree with E.S. that I wouldn't add any more calories unless the Ped specifically said that you should. I do calorie adding under the supervision of a Pediatrician, GI doctor, and Dietitian.
Has your pediatrician voiced actual concern over your son's weight or was "twiggy" just his/her way of saying your baby is lean. Unless your pediatrician stated that you NEED to up your baby's fat intake, I would just leave things as they are.
So if the pediatrician wasn't worried than just keep giving him whole fat foods as you are. Whole milk. Whole milk yogurt. Butter. Cottage cheese.
My second was in the same boat. Pediatrician told us to add butter to his baby veggies. He is 16 now and you still cannot find an ounce of fat on that boy!!! And trust me, he eats! He's healthy, strong and energetic, he just got the skinny gene.
