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• 10-Year-Old Finally Eats

  You think you've got trouble with a kid who won't eat? Walk a mile in this mother's shoes. She's been waiting 10 years -- TEN! -- for her daughter to even pick at her dinner, much less heartily dig into anything she has been served. Tia-Mae had been hooked up to a feeding tube since she was born prematurely and with a gap between her esophagus and her stomach. While feeding tubes aren't that uncommon, a 10-year dependency on one certainly is. Her mother had tried to get her to eat real food since she was a baby, always offering her bits of this and that to see if she'd make the transition. Tia-Mae always refused. Read More... Posted Mar 10 2009, 02:59 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: eating disorders among children, diet, daily mail, premature births, feeding tube, tia-mae, 10-year-old eats food

• Three-Year-Old Eats Solid Food for the First Time

  There’s nothing quite as sweet as a child’s very first bite of birthday cake. (Particularly if you had health nuts for parents, so sneaking bites of carob bars was the closest you got to sweets until you were four. Not that I’m still bitter.) But imagine if that first bite of cake was also a child’s first experience of solid food. Read More... Posted Dec 19 2008, 03:31 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: children, kids, eating, UK, birthday, birthday cake, third birthday, feeding tube, undiagnosed, castle, digestion, three year old, unable to eat, declan stringer, mysterious illness, first solid foods, solid foods