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my grandma (in oregon) and I were talking today and she said something weird, she goes "how come she (August) is always asking to eat?" I was kinda confused I guess so I asked her to clarify and she said "well, everytime I'm on the phone she asks for something to eat (we talk almost everyday) and I was just wondering if shes getting chubby. I mean all babies get chubby and then they get taller and thin out. I was just wondering. Because it sounds like she eats a lot." I took a little offense (while remembering that my grandma is weight/body image obsessed in a not healthy way IMO so trying to not be angry because I don't think she was TRYING to be hurtful) and said "no, shes two, two year olds eat a lot and like to eat small snacks often, shes normal." So she backtracked with "Oh I wasn't saying shes not normal, I didn't remember what it was like when my kids were little. I just read an article about little kids becoming obese. Not 2 year olds, maybe 5 or 6, because they didn't exercise, they watched too much TV. Does she get exercise, because thats really important you know. I didn't mean anything bad, I mean she is built to be a bigger kid anyways because she was born big, but you know its like an epidemic now with the little kids becoming obese."
I sort of brushed it off and told her she is a very healthy kid who watches very little TV and runs a lot and left it at that LOL, but it prompted me to write it here I guess partially because I'm a little shocked that she'd even say that. I mean she has very obvious issues with this kind of stuff but I didn't think it applied to 2 year olds? Besides the fact that while yes, August is taller/bigger than most other kids her age, shes not overly so (not that it would exactly matter to me since I clearly know she is healthy), and certainly doesn't look "chubby"....
The funny thing is I often have the opposite worry, its often really hard for us to afford enough food (and thankfully my dad and grandma in Antioch gave us some stuff this week or we would have been so screwed!) and I worry that I'm not able to feed her enough food for her growing body. The other day I went to get her breakfast and realized we had no cereal, oatmeal, fruit, eggs, bread....anything you could consider breakfast-y was not here. I think we ended up having some rice or leftover lunch/dinner item, so its not like she went hungry, I will NEVER let her go hungry no matter what I have to do, but a lot of times she will ask for something like juice and I have to tell her we don't have any because we plain and simple cannot afford it. The kid was beyond THRILLED this morning that grandma brought her bananas and Annie's Cheddar Bunnies, seriously, she was jumping up and down lol. I don't really tell people that kind of stuff often, I don't want to feel like a sympathy case because we ARE making it, like I said I won't let her go hungry, and yeah, there have been nights where we have just enough where Sean lets August and I (because I'm nursing) take some first and he eats whatever is left because theres not really enough for 3 people, but my kids are always fed and most weeks we can even squeeze in a treat like juice or extra fruit, stuff to make muffins, etc. But anyways, the point is, I don't think I let on to my grandma that thats the case for us, you know? So its kinda funny that she would think I'm OVERfeeding my toddler! Also funny that just this morning my other grandma was here saying she was so amazed that August will eat anything (just about any kind of vegetable or fruit, a whole green salad, spinach, lentil and beans etc), and I'm pretty proud of that, I think shes a really healthy kid (even though I do think she learned to eat a lot of that stuff because there is literally no other option, which kinda sucks because I hate being a mom who says "this is dinner and you can eat it or go hungry" but its true, its not like I can make her a sandwich or something on our pretend bread lol, and with how expensive my diet is I can't afford to buy seperate food for people, I know they sell bread very cheaply but I can't afford to buy seperate bread just for her because she doesn't like the dinner I've made, you know? Plus it would glutenize my kitchen....but I digress, and now she loves almost everything I make, so it worked out in the end.)
And exercise? This kid rarely sits still LOL ;)
Anyways, just some thoughts, I'd be really mad if August was able to hear my grandma make comments like that but at this point I'm just kinda...confused I guess.
I sort of brushed it off and told her she is a very healthy kid who watches very little TV and runs a lot and left it at that LOL, but it prompted me to write it here I guess partially because I'm a little shocked that she'd even say that. I mean she has very obvious issues with this kind of stuff but I didn't think it applied to 2 year olds? Besides the fact that while yes, August is taller/bigger than most other kids her age, shes not overly so (not that it would exactly matter to me since I clearly know she is healthy), and certainly doesn't look "chubby"....
The funny thing is I often have the opposite worry, its often really hard for us to afford enough food (and thankfully my dad and grandma in Antioch gave us some stuff this week or we would have been so screwed!) and I worry that I'm not able to feed her enough food for her growing body. The other day I went to get her breakfast and realized we had no cereal, oatmeal, fruit, eggs, bread....anything you could consider breakfast-y was not here. I think we ended up having some rice or leftover lunch/dinner item, so its not like she went hungry, I will NEVER let her go hungry no matter what I have to do, but a lot of times she will ask for something like juice and I have to tell her we don't have any because we plain and simple cannot afford it. The kid was beyond THRILLED this morning that grandma brought her bananas and Annie's Cheddar Bunnies, seriously, she was jumping up and down lol. I don't really tell people that kind of stuff often, I don't want to feel like a sympathy case because we ARE making it, like I said I won't let her go hungry, and yeah, there have been nights where we have just enough where Sean lets August and I (because I'm nursing) take some first and he eats whatever is left because theres not really enough for 3 people, but my kids are always fed and most weeks we can even squeeze in a treat like juice or extra fruit, stuff to make muffins, etc. But anyways, the point is, I don't think I let on to my grandma that thats the case for us, you know? So its kinda funny that she would think I'm OVERfeeding my toddler! Also funny that just this morning my other grandma was here saying she was so amazed that August will eat anything (just about any kind of vegetable or fruit, a whole green salad, spinach, lentil and beans etc), and I'm pretty proud of that, I think shes a really healthy kid (even though I do think she learned to eat a lot of that stuff because there is literally no other option, which kinda sucks because I hate being a mom who says "this is dinner and you can eat it or go hungry" but its true, its not like I can make her a sandwich or something on our pretend bread lol, and with how expensive my diet is I can't afford to buy seperate food for people, I know they sell bread very cheaply but I can't afford to buy seperate bread just for her because she doesn't like the dinner I've made, you know? Plus it would glutenize my kitchen....but I digress, and now she loves almost everything I make, so it worked out in the end.)
And exercise? This kid rarely sits still LOL ;)
Anyways, just some thoughts, I'd be really mad if August was able to hear my grandma make comments like that but at this point I'm just kinda...confused I guess.