Nuts

Nope, Zethan has not been introduced to nuts and toddlers this age should not be given till much later. Notice the transition from addressing infant to baby to toddler! BUT as always the infamous BUT, the promotion to toddler-hood wasn't a very pleasant one which explains the caption of nuts as Zethan is driving mummy nuts!!!

For the past few days, Zethan have been refusing to be fed in his high chair. Come mealtime be it lunch or dinner, he will cry as though being torture with tons of tears, snots, droolz upon placement into his high chair. Now this is not the 1st time he does it but usually it's for a short while which wasn't the case for the past 2 days or so.

Mummy is torn between having to pacify him to cut all the yelling and crying or insist on developing good table manners as in stay put in high chair for meals. mummy isn't ever going to tolerate feeding a child who is running around, NO WAY!

so today is the really bad meltdown, 3 episodes in all.

1st at lunch...as usual, put in high chair, yell, cry, fuss for a good 5mins. Managed to distract him with toys and advertisements help big time. in between lunch, repeat the same 'cycle' though rather managable and he finishes his lunch.

2nd at dinner....put down, meltdown for 5mins, carry to pacify for 5 mins, put down and the ordeal continue. carry out of high chair, leave him alone on the floor, don't work! He try to crawl to mummy for comfort but mummy resist and put him back in place. He can even lie down on the floor and continue crying till the point of lost of voice! Geez, this is definitely maddening. brushing everything values aside, mummy picked him up, pacify and had to resort to carrying him while feeding. talking about multi tasking. of cos this little guy isn't quite giving up, stubborn as a mule (some say he take after mummy in this aspect), he kick start a few short episodes of sobs again. All in all, the feeding take a total of 1hr with more than 40mins spent on crying and fussing.

3rd episode....water feed. Zethan have been hyper these days particularly so after his birthday party. The whole house was pretty cleared of 'junks' thus lots of room for him to crawl at lightning speed. since he has been crawling from kitchen to living / dining room for the thousand time, mummy gathered he need some water. He took a sip or 2 from his sippy cup and refuse more. Mummy is quite at fault here as she insisted on feeding more water to Zethan which resulted in another meltdown. This is is seriously bad, screaming at the top of his lungs displaying his stubborn streak further. so it's a game of tolerance for mummy and Zethan to which both are not willing to give in! at some point Zethan look as though he just came out of the shower, full of perspiration, snot, tears, hair real wet, shirt real wet. For a good 15mins or more, he continue while mummy ignore so much so that she left him and make her way to the room with Zethan trotting behind her. Only when Zethan made an attempt to stop that mummy offer him pacifier and his stinky pillow which end the ordeal.

Boy, it was so very exhausting for mummy and thankfully it's only 2 feeds a day otherwise mummy will go bonkers real soon. crossing fingers and toes that it is a passing phase and had better passed soon!