Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Eating slump?



I'm having a bit of a meltdown here. It's been three days counting since Sera's food boycott.

I thought it was just the excitement of school thus the lack of appetite or enthusiasm about meal time. But today was no different. She didn't even finish half her breakfast cereal. Milk, her most favourite drink, keeps getting wasted and left unfinished. Forget about lunch. In fact, she slept through lunch today, so I tried to give her something for tea. I made a batch of blueberry muffins, only because I know she likes blueberries and they are thankfully, very healthy. I tweaked the recipe just so it was healthier. I was an emotional wreck just feeding it to her. I was nervously and anxiously waiting for her to spit it out or refuse another bite. She ate most of it. Phew!

I don't know what's up with Sera? She doesn't appear to be sick, still active like normal so my suspicion (after consulting with some books) is that she is acting up, being rebellious and controlling in a way she knows how. I mean, she can't just dislike ALL her favourite food overnight. It just doesn't make sense! I'm not at all angry with her. I'm just close to pulling my hair from stress (ok, I love my hair too much so maybe not to that extent but you get the idea, I'm just plain worried) because my little girl simply refuses to eat. But according to the books, it is so normal for toddlers to suddenly become difficult and fussy eaters. Nothing to panic about. Then there is like a list of five, ten, 100 things we can do to improve the situation. That's good and all, and maybe I'll try some of them out. Maybe ...

Oh for dinner, yup you guessed right. Blueberry muffin. That is, half of it.

Sera Ling, what's up your sleeve?

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