dealing with toddler nighttime hunger

melrrr · June 2010

First let me preface with the fact that I think Tracey has officially weaned. We were down to mornings only, and her last morning nursing was last weekend.

Advice? Do you remember what/how much your kids were eating at 16 months??

Tonight she ate dinner around 6:30 (a few ounces of turkey/feta/spinach meatloaf) and drank some milk. Then around 7:00 she brought me the loaf of bread she had pulled off the counter. Figuring she was still hungry I gave her a slice of bread and some more turkey and cheese. She ate most of that, saw a Happy Tots squash/apple blend, asked for it, and ate about half of it. I put her down for bed around 7:30 and gave her about 4 ounces of milk while we read books. By 8:00 she was crying 'eat! eat! eat!" We were finally eating dinner so I gave her some of the zucchini pasta we were eating with the meatloaf and she finished the applesauce.

I wonder if a lot of the "eat! eat" is just a way to get me to come get her, but tonight she did eat more. I know I'm still learning how much she needs to eat. Her appetite for real food is so high now that she's not nuring...I don't know if she's getting enough.

charlotteL · June 2010

At 16 months both boys were eating adult sized portions. I mean so much food it was almost disgusting.

Erika&Brian · June 2010

I think every kid is so different, so hard to say. Grant is not an eater. There are days I think he consumes maybe 300 calories and I'm scrambling to find something for him to eat, and he's 2! I think (like adults) our bodies tell us when we are hungry, so act on that. If she wants to eat more - let her, especially if it's not junk. You may also want to up the milk intake at night time to fill her up. Grant was having 7 ounces before bed at that age.

LisaK2b · June 2010

At 16 months, she got 3 meals and 2 snacks. Also, she had 3-4 cups of milk. The portion for her meal is what I would eat if I was on portion control and diet. So about 1/2 cup of carbs, a piece of meat and about 1/2 -1 cup of veggies. Using the size of their hand is a good reference (fist = carbs, palm = meat). snack is always cheese with either fruit or crackers.

Katieraye09 · June 2010

DS is almost 15 months and like Charlotte's boys, he's eats as much as an adult. It's crazy the amount of food he can put away. He eats 3 full sized meals and at least 3 snacks per day. I'm thinking that I need to add a bedtime snack in there somewhere because he has been fighting going to sleep and after reading your post I'm wondering if he's just hungry.

M&M614 · June 2010

Micah eats a scary amount of food. And she never stops. EVER. She merely gets tired of sitting in the high chair or sleepy.

We do a lot of snacks. Smaller snacks throughout the day and right before bed. But yeah, there's a lot of eating going on around here.

mom2ll · June 2010

M&M614:
Micah eats a scary amount of food. And she never stops. EVER. She merely gets tired of sitting in the high chair or sleepy.

We do a lot of snacks. Smaller snacks throughout the day and right before bed. But yeah, there's a lot of eating going on around here.

this is Lila she is a bottomless pit!!!

horn_jm@hotmail.com · June 2010

I think you did the right thing for that age. For a 3 year old, they should probably understand to eat their dinner at dinner time.

kreeper611 · June 2010

charlotteL:
At 16 months both boys were eating adult sized portions. I mean so much food it was almost disgusting.

This scares me.

rayskit10 · June 2010

M&M614:
Micah eats a scary amount of food. And she never stops. EVER. She merely gets tired of sitting in the high chair or sleepy.
We do a lot of snacks. Smaller snacks throughout the day and right before bed. But yeah, there's a lot of eating going on around here.

This is Mathis. He's *insane* with the amount of food he eats. he literally eats 3x as much as Truitt. However, he has the bulk of his food early in the day- like yogurt and cheerios and a banana for breakfast at 6:30-7, then a snack at 8, nap, wakes up for another snack and then a huge lunch, afternoon nap, another snack. usually a small snack right before dinner because he's so hungry he can't wait for me to cook, dinner, then bath and bed. I have actually been limiting how much he eats at dinner because he'll stuff himself and then have trouble sleeping because he's too full.

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