Thismummystory #5 my husband’s, my toddler’s stuck to my tit, i hate most of my kids but I'll never admit

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Corona said:
And then she goes on these health rants about how she loves healthy food but they're all malnourished! My daughter is around the same age as Coco-she devoured a lentil pasta salad with loads of different vegetables yesterday. Because she's learned to eat like that, she doesn't only eat beige food!! And that's not me bragging, it's actually me being practical and only making ONE meal for all of us.
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Nooo that's not normal, it's normal to make different meals because parenting guru George says so! If your kid eats what u do, you're doing something wrong it's simply not normal to make things easy
 
Seriously George no one wants to see this. Give your child some privacy ffs
 

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Thread suggestion: nominated for Mum of the Year, though ignores most of her kids, just to be clear.
Kellyg said:
Nooo that's not normal, it's normal to make different meals because parenting guru George says so! If your kid eats what u do, you're doing something wrong it's simply not normal to make things easy
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also ensure your kids are eating wherever and however they want to around the house. Dining tables are just the wrong narrative and puts so much pressure on us mamas
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Kellyg said:
Seriously George no one wants to see this. Give your child some privacy ffs
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Always after the perve vote George. Honestly have never met another mum who says “I feel so empowered with breastfeeding because I regularly see another woman’s tits on Instagram”
 
ozblackcat said:
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Totally agree.....society says we should use dining tables like normal people but I'm here to normalise letting them run round with food not digesting it properly, or failing that they can sit on the sofa and watch the ipad or tele so they don't pay attention to what they're doing. Now that's normal mamas, let them little fanny wreckers totally walk all over you!
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Purplepeople said:
Does she not realise she did a weetabix cheesecake step by step the other day? How does she even have time for this stuff, I can just about manage to get us out the house on school days and that’s with 2 kids and my husband mostly getting them ready
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Because coco gets up in the middle of the night which is totally normal remember, so she's up early to do it. Also every reel is about toddler sleep so why should her wonderful weetabix cheesecake be any different? Come on hun u know she doesn't have any other content besides weird food sleep obsession and tits out on insta
 
Corona said:
And then she goes on these health rants about how she loves healthy food but they're all malnourished! My daughter is around the same age as Coco-she devoured a lentil pasta salad with loads of different vegetables yesterday. Because she's learned to eat like that, she doesn't only eat beige food!! And that's not me bragging, it's actually me being practical and only making ONE meal for all of us.
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yup! I refuse to make separate meals. Dinner time is family time we all eat together and we eat the same. I might adapt things sometimes, for example my oldest doesn’t really like rice so he had tortilla wraps with our steak stir fry yesterday instead.
I’m not against the odd easy meal, if it’s a busy day I might do the odd jacket with cheese and beans but I’ll add broccoli or something, and it’s not every bloody day
 
Purplepeople said:
Does she not realise she did a weetabix cheesecake step by step the other day?
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I’m a bit concerned that this is obvious ED behaviour - trying to prove that she eats when she doesn’t. I’d be amazed if she ate that whole thing in one sitting. Maybe she has a spoonful here and there and that’s the majority of her food for the day. I hope not.

Corona said:
My daughter is around the same age as Coco-she devoured a lentil pasta salad with loads of different vegetables yesterday. Because she's learned to eat like that, she doesn't only eat beige food!! And that's not me bragging, it's actually me being practical and only making ONE meal for all of us.
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Is it nature or nurture though? My children are such restricted eaters I am literally not the mother I hoped I would be, when it comes to feeding them. I cannot make the most basic family meals for us all to eat, because they would rather starve than go near a spaghetti bolognaise. And when my daughter was a year old she’d eat anything. For the longest time I felt like a failure and that I’d created this problem. If only I’d been tougher and really insisted she ate what was in front of her (it never would have worked… she’s autistic).

This is why I think there might be some truth to her claim that there’s neurodivergence in the family.
 
maytoseptember said:
Is it nature or nurture though? My children are such restricted eaters I am literally not the mother I hoped I would be, when it comes to feeding them. I cannot make the most basic family meals for us all to eat, because they would rather starve than go near a spaghetti bolognaise. And when my daughter was a year old she’d eat anything. For the longest time I felt like a failure and that I’d created this problem. If only I’d been tougher and really insisted she ate what was in front of her (it never would have worked… she’s autistic).

This is why I think there might be some truth to her claim that there’s neurodivergence in the family.
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I think all kids go through a food aversion phase. I have 2 little ones, one is nearly 2 and will eat absolutely anything put in front of her, and the other is 3 and goes through phases of refusing (he used to eat anything and everything). I just follow the rule that I am only in control of what I put in front of them, and they are in control of what they eat, so I never comment on them not eating or eating something, never push. I serve meals as a family, usually with one 'safe' element I know they both really enjoy like corn on the cob, or I dunno, cheese lol. I just keep exposing them. My 3 year sometimes shocks us and polishes the lot, sometimes he won't eat much of anything, but has eaten well at other meals so we just kind of shrug it off. Offer a super plain boring snack before bed (bowl of cereal or a slice of toast) and he's fine. I dunno, I'm not an expert, but I do think the hyperfocus on what they are eating that George does contributes to a lot of the issues. She just needs to take a step back.
 
maytoseptember said:
I’m a bit concerned that this is obvious ED behaviour - trying to prove that she eats when she doesn’t. I’d be amazed if she ate that whole thing in one sitting. Maybe she has a spoonful here and there and that’s the majority of her food for the day. I hope not.



Is it nature or nurture though? My children are such restricted eaters I am literally not the mother I hoped I would be, when it comes to feeding them. I cannot make the most basic family meals for us all to eat, because they would rather starve than go near a spaghetti bolognaise. And when my daughter was a year old she’d eat anything. For the longest time I felt like a failure and that I’d created this problem. If only I’d been tougher and really insisted she ate what was in front of her (it never would have worked… she’s autistic).

This is why I think there might be some truth to her claim that there’s neurodivergence in the family.
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Neurodivergence is a whole different ball game that I'm not clued up on at all, and I'm sure that you are 10000% doing what is best for your daughter! I can only speak of my experience and what I've seen with neurotypical children. George has 4, and I've no doubt that there's some neurodivergence there but the fact that all 4 eat like crap isn't a result of that. When she was weaning Coco she started with fruits and vegetables but very quickly started relying on all the beige stuff and the ready snacks, biscuits etc. Vegans who eat well have a lot of grains, pulses, legumes in their diet and I'd be surprised if any of those 4 have seen a chickpea in their life. At the end of the day, generally speaking, children will eat what they've grown up eating. (again, in neurotypical children, without eating disorders like ARFID etc) A child isn't going to constantly ask for a Linda McCartney sausage roll if they've never had one.
 
maytoseptember said:
Is it nature or nurture though? My children are such restricted eaters I am literally not the mother I hoped I would be, when it comes to feeding them. I cannot make the most basic family meals for us all to eat, because they would rather starve than go near a spaghetti bolognaise. And when my daughter was a year old she’d eat anything. For the longest time I felt like a failure and that I’d created this problem. If only I’d been tougher and really insisted she ate what was in front of her (it never would have worked… she’s autistic).

This is why I think there might be some truth to her claim that there’s neurodivergence in the family.
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Oh and just to reiterate what Corona has said really, because I focused too much on one element of your comment in my reply- Don't be so harsh on yourself. We all come to motherhood with expectations that we will do things a certain way, and things just don't always work out like that. I'm sure you're doing the very best you can for your children, and that really is all that matters.
 
Corona said:
Neurodivergence is a whole different ball game that I'm not clued up on at all, and I'm sure that you are 10000% doing what is best for your daughter! I can only speak of my experience and what I've seen with neurotypical children. George has 4, and I've no doubt that there's some neurodivergence there but the fact that all 4 eat like crap isn't a result of that. When she was weaning Coco she started with fruits and vegetables but very quickly started relying on all the beige stuff and the ready snacks, biscuits etc. Vegans who eat well have a lot of grains, pulses, legumes in their diet and I'd be surprised if any of those 4 have seen a chickpea in their life. At the end of the day, generally speaking, children will eat what they've grown up eating. (again, in neurotypical children, without eating disorders like ARFID etc) A child isn't going to constantly ask for a Linda McCartney sausage roll if they've never had one.
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She also never seemingly progressed from weaning… her kid seems to still be eating purée tit and those damn bibs. And she isn’t allowed to explore food and make a mess. That’s key imo in helping to avoid fussy eaters
 
I didn't think she bf of an eve anymore? I thought she only had the morning boob marathon.
Also I think the amount of snacks the kids eat doesn't help with the fussy eating...
I know all kids are different but if my daughter has too many snacks throughout day, she'll barely eat dinner or will moan about what we are having even if it's food she likes and she'll barely finish it...
However if she's hungry she'll pretty much eat any meal I put in front of her even if it's not a meal she particularly likes...
 
Is it really ‘sleeping thru the night’ as Coco wakes up at 3am/4am for a 2 hour ‘boob marathon’ 🤦‍♀️
No matter how much she says it it is not ‘normal’ to be getting up to start the day at 4am, no wonder Coco is still having 2 naps a day with first nap usually in school run at what time like 8.30am? She’s 2 now, quite a few toddlers her age start to stop their naps now.

also wtf is this outfit?! She literally looks like a teenage boy, the cap 🤦‍♀️

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Rainbow1 said:
Is it really ‘sleeping thru the night’ as Coco wakes up at 3am/4am for a 2 hour ‘boob marathon’ 🤦‍♀️
No matter how much she says it it is not ‘normal’ to be getting up to start the day at 4am, no wonder Coco is still having 2 naps a day with first nap usually in school run at what time like 8.30am? She’s 2 now, quite a few toddlers her age start to stop their naps now.

also wtf is this outfit?! She literally looks like a teenage boy, the cap 🤦‍♀️

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Sorry but how is saying “only 20 months of absolute batshittery” in any way supposed to be a comfort to any mother. If I was thinking about having a baby, following this account would put me right off. She should be used as birth control 😂

And I can’t even with those hats 🤦‍♀️ is this a fashion thing I thankfully know nothing of?

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To add: isn’t this reel also showing her still rocking her toddler to sleep? So actually she hasn’t indicated any process works. She’s just doing the same stuff now at 27 months
 
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