Dear Hetal,
I am a new member to this discussion forum and I want to tell you how much I appreciate your efforts for all the help and advice given to mothers with various questions regarding their baby' s health and development. You have 2 children and still you take the time to answer various questions. Kudos to you, Hetal.
Hetal can you help me out here?
I have a 13 month old baby girl. Her birth weight was 3.25 Kgs. Until the 6 month she gained weight steadily but after that her weight gain is very slow. Now at 13 months she weighs only 7.5 Kgs.
Her diet schedule is as follows:
7am BM
8:30am--Breakfast--Oat porridge/nachni with milk/cornflakes in milk/french toast.
11:00--Mid morning--50ml milk mixed with little cerelac
11:30-12:30--Nap (somedays its a 30-45 min nap)
1:00pm--Lunch--Rice+dried beans usal/Rice + chicken and veggies/ Pasta in thick gravy/(ending with 1/2 slice of mango or 1/2 banana or 1 slice of apple)
3:pm--50ml milk with little cerelac
3:15-4:00pm--Nap
4:30pm--Snack--Bread/Rice pudding,biscuits in milk
7:00pm--Fruit
8:00pm--Dinner--Same as lunch + fruit
10:00pm--BM--Sleep

** Cows milk for breakfast,and snack = 320ml
** In addition to her breakfast of porridge I try to give her jam/butter and bread but she just eats very little.
** I give 6 morsels of food by hand and then grind up the remaining and feed by spoon.
** At lunch after eating the 6 morsels in the highchair, she gets restless and ends up walking around and eating the remaining ground food.
** At dinner she eats the 6 morsels and then absolutely refuses to eat any more.
** She refuses to drink milk before going to sleep at night and she gets up 3 times at night for BM.
** I have tried various fruit juices, milk with bournvita etc, but she just takes one sip and flatly refuses to drink any more.
** She doesnt drink milk from the bottle only the sippy cup.
** Please can you guide me as to how to get her to drink juice, more milk (esp before nighttime). Is 320ml (in puddings etc)+ 50ml midmorn and sometimes in the evening enough?
**She is very active and walking all by herself now.
**Her ped has advised 2ml of calcium supplement and 8 drops of iron daily.
** I am a working mom and have a full time maid.

Thank you for your time.



Sunny replied. Up to 1 litre is good basically water Milk & Juice all added fruit Juices Yoghurt there is nothing to worry