[Forever_family]

Thank you for the reply to my question about my 13 month old recently placed foster adopt baby. I have taken him to the Pediatrician and gone over his food issues. I was told not to make it an issue and feed him healthy foods until he is clearly full/spitting up. I wanted tos ay thank you thank you thank you for what you wrote to Sleepydream! I know for sure his bio-mom put cereal in his bottle from birth-3 months old, just figured this out at our WIC recertification, his mom told them she was putting cereal in his bottle at birth and I would imagine overfeeding him as he was 18 pounds at 3 months and at 12 months he was 19 pounds. I am fairly certain this early intro of ceral may have caused his reflux issues and eating problems. I plan on going over this with his Pediatrician at next visit because it was not in any of his medical that his birth mom had given him cereal from birth. Also his foster mom, who did not cause his eating issues, severely limited/regulated his food and to him I'm sure it felt like deprevation.

"Sleepydream - the children I worked with were neglected and abused so I only have experience in that area. Considering that, yes, when children, even as very small infants, were deprived food, and/or given formula which their system could not tolerate, and/or forced to eat even when not hungry, and/or given rice cereal, adult foods, etc. before their digestive systems had developed well enough to tolerate it - then these issues tended to create food problems. Even very small infants who were not appropriately fed (and by that I mean force-fed or went hungry) could be found to have problems with food - even though they were unable to "remember"."