My 6 year old only likes babycarrots,celery,green peppers.?!
My 6 year old only likes babycarrots,celery,green peppers.?
She likes spaghetti and refuses milk but drinks lots of water. Her skin is so clear and her eyesight seems phenominal. But the school nurse says she is underweight and malnourished. My daughter wasnt supposed to live because she was born with a collapsed long. But thatnk god she is alive. Her peditrician gave the school her specific diet. the nurse says I should give her meat. She is strongly opposed to eating animals. She doesnt eat candy. I make her several vegetarian foods. Which she eats with no problems. The pediatrician disagrees with the nurse.
Am I wrong to not feed her meat?
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Screw the nurse, good bet she has not had any schooling on nutrition. Listen to your doctor. My son was allergic to milk so he drank none and no dairy (ice cream, cheese) since he was 4 mos old. I am primarily veg so he ate lots of fruit and veges. He is now 6'6" and very healthy. If she is eating as you say good for her! I have a niece who's son is 3yrs and will only drink pedialyte from a bottle and eat cookies and candy and he is still alive.
No, just make sure she gets LOTS of protein from other sources such as beans and nuts. Make a vegeterian chilli and sneak some shredded cheese into it. Start making her peanut butter sandwiches for snacks; those have tons of protien and will replace the protien she doesn't get from meat. It has been scientifically proven that human beings do not need to eat meat to survive. I have no idea what that nurse was thinking but its very out-dated logic
it sounds like u got a very lucky break if ur kid doesnt wanna eat candy !!!!! id say if she doesnt wanna eat meat the n maybe give her protein tablets to balance it out cause she still is young and sum of the b vitamins u only get from meat
She does not need meat, she needs protein. And fat, too. If you have a good pediatrician, as you seem to do, she/he'll give you advice on that. School nurses can be incredibly ignorant, especially if a little older. Search the web, find literature, forget the nurse (I know it can be hard, though...) (If you can get her to eat fish once or twice a week, that wouldn't hurt. Unless she is allergic to fish, that is.)
No, its fine.
She will thank you one day when she realises you have increased her potential life span
If the nurse thinks she knows better than your pediatrician, she isn't a very good nurse. She's obviously letting her personal feelings about the subject get involved. If your doctor says she's fine, and you think she's fine... who's the nurse to say otherwise? If the nurse bothers you about it, give her the number for your pediatrician and have her talk to him. Hopefully that will clear it all up.
There is nothing wrong with a vegetarian child. If your pediatrician says her weight is within a normal range you should not need to worry. I know a few people who have never eaten meat in their life and they have good health and maintain a good weight.
Some people just think that fatter kids are healthier. This is definitely not true.
According to the study below, your child could have a high IQ.
Tell that nurse to get her head out of her slimy @ss. She has no right to tell YOU what YOUR daughter should eat. Hey I never ate meat ever in my life and I turned out OK. I was underweight until I reached 14 years of age. No big deal. Make sure she eats lots of dried beans and whole grains, not just veggies.
Ordinarily, I'd be concerned about the possibility of the nurse putting in a call to your local child welfare organization. But since your pediatrician has given the school a copy of your daughter's diet, there's not much that she can do about it.
You are the best judge of what your daughter can and can't eat. And besides, you really can't force her to eat something that she doesn't want. . .trust me, that is one battle of wills that parents seldom win. As she gets older, you can introduce her to other foods. As long as it's not a battleground between the two of you, she'll probably expand her diet to include other vegetables and types of dishes.
If the pediatrician is satisfied with her health and you think she's doing well, then tell the nurse firmly but diplomatically that the matter is between you and your daughter's doctor. Period, end of subject.
no you are not wrong! eating beans and rice or even better quinoa is a good sourse of protien and eating an orange after helps release iron. or she can drink nettle tea for the iron. for the extra fats pour olive flax or any other good oil on her potatoes rice or whatever!!! the oil will add fats. to get professional advice i would recomend talking to a child nutritionalist who is vegan frindly (vegan smart) our childrens health is important and she may be lacking in fats which is important for brain function as well as other body functions. good luck and be well! no worries and know you can do it the vegan way!
I would pack her lunch for her. There'a a great website of a vegan mother who makes incredible lunches.
Here's a link to her newly published book and website. She has tons of recipes on this site
http://veganlunchbox.blogspot.com/...
http://www.veganlunchbox.com/
Sounds like what I eat and I am pretty much above average physically. So no your not wrong, she'll be fine.
.Try quorn in her eating programme,it has high protein content No you are not wrong .Eating meat would make her physically sick and her system would reject it.She may just have a fast metabolism ,so try pasta with her veg and make a white sauce to go with it.Pancakes and bannanas would help to build her weight up.Try some nourishing homemade soups they are easy to make .Always use your vegetable water to make your stock any leftover veg a little veg margarine soya milk can be used in soups its very tasty simmer for about 15 mins and serve with wholemeal bread and veggie cheese.
The pediatrician has tons more schooling and (probably) experience than the nurse. Listen to the pediatrician! Also, educate yourself on healthy vegetarian diets for children. There are lots of books out there. Here are a couple I found with a quick search on Amazon that look good; I'm sure you can find lots more.
http://www.amazon.com/raising-vegetarian...
http://www.amazon.com/vegetarian-child-l...
Your child is a lot smarter than the health care professionals she is seeing. Doctors can be so ignorant. Feeding your six year old a vegetarian (or better yet, vegan) diet is the best possible thing you could do for you. You are so smart not to take the doctor's word!