Mini Lowe

So I had a doctors appointment yesterday and Trenton finally fell of the charts. Yes that is right. He is now in the O percentile for weight and Height.

He was born at 10th percentile, hung in the 7th percentile, dropped to 3, up to 10 and now he is at the O percentile.

He has never been an eater, hating to eat from the beginning of his life. He hated to nurse and would scream his little lungs out when I made him eat. He would eventually eat but after much protest and force. Poor little guy. I went to a lactation consultant for months and she was mystified by his behavior. He would start to scream the moment he was even put up to the breast. I took him to the ear, nose and throat doctor to see if he was tongue tied, he wasn't. After several weeks of him continuing to not gain weight, the lactation lady finally had me start a bottle. She said that he was burning more calories fighting nursing than he was getting from the milk.



So we started on a bottle and he finally would eat it.

He has always been one to want to eat on his terms.

When it was time to start feeding Trenton solids he refused. He would scream when we would try at 6 months. At 7 months he still refused. I tried every day to feed him something. He wouldn't eat. He even hates bananas, have you met a baby that does not eat bananas? Well now you have. The only thing we could ever get him to eat that is kind of a solid food was ice cream. I know who doesn't like ice cream. So we started that way and worked really hard to get food into the little guy.

Finally by 11 months I could get him to eat some baby cereal, but only if I made it really sweet, with jam, or sugar, or syrup. Then and only then. He hated all baby food. Many a baby food went unfinished and wasted. When he got some teeth we finally could get him to eat cheerios, but only the multi-grain ones because they are sweetened.

So now here he is almost 18 months and he weighs 20 pounds. My baby Tyler is 19 pounds and is 9 months younger than him. Tyler eats wonderfully, has since day one. But Trenton remains my picky eater, and non eater too.

He will not eat meat in any form. He actually wont eat any meat at all. He wont eat vegetables. He did like corn (once again very sweet) but that is always a hit or miss.

The funny thing is that he wont eat dinner with us, when we offer him bites, he turns his head in disgust. He has no idea what we are feeding him, sometimes it is sweet and he will still turn his head. Often we will put some on his lips, with much protest from him, and he will then taste it and if it is sweet and good to him he will then let us feed him.

He is not a fan of milk. He wants formula, and sneaks over to steal his brothers bottle after a feeding. He will take the left over rather than drink a bottle, or sippy cup with milk.

So we have been told to up his calories as much as he can, like put double the amount of butter on his English muffin (yes he likes those)

He also loves pizza, except for sometimes. He did not eat the pizza I made last night. He was in his rebel stage again.

So he is not starving. He loves fruit snacks (of course) and I feed him that. And he will eat chips and crackers too. But nothing even remotely healthy. I am sure you may have suggestions. But I am not writing for suggestions. I am just logging it for posterity sake. I am sure this will be very funny someday to read to Trenton, when he is a teen and wont stop eating.

I am not worried. He has just always been the kid who will only eat on his terms. I am handling it and he is just my Mini Lowe.