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Info on the need for toddler's to eat meat?

Posted May 15, 2007

My wife and I have a 17 1/2-month-old toddler. She's tall, strong, energetic, quite healthy, and developing nicely. My wife believes that it is best to at least offer animal meat to our daughter at every meal. This includes fish, chicken, beef, lamb, and sometimes pork. Some meals, our daughter eats a lot of the meat offered to her; other times she eats hardly any of it. My wife figures that our daughter's cravings for or against meat will determine her optimal intake.

What do you folks think?

When I eat "too much" meat over a few days, I develop a foul body odor, become farty, and my bowel movements seem less than optimal.

Observing our daughter, she doesn't seem to have these issues. So can I conclude that she's not getting too much meat? Or are there other baby-specific signals I should be looking for?

By the way, she loves her vegetables and scarfs them down. Plus her juice bottles are heavily diluted with mountain spring water, and she drinks lots. Plus she loves her vitamins and fish oil. I'd suspect these have much to do with her regularity in the pooping department.

Any thoughts on this meat issue would be appreciated. 

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The Intuitive Wisdom of Kids
To peter, concering your Question Info on the need for toddler's to eat meat, I completely agree with your wife. It's so wonderful that she trusts your child to determine what her own needs are. She is relying on the intuitive wisdom your daughter was born with. The beauty of this is that your wife is teaching her that she is her own best expert. What a gift.I assume that the foods that...

by drLove (2 years ago)

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