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Lo is a total grazer, and I really do not care as her weight is on track according to her dr and I make sure to offer her healthy options as snacks throughout the day. So like, she's not eating crackers all day, but she might eat yogurt, a banana, and some cereal over the course of a morning rahter than all at once for breakfast.

@Bao: I guess her schedule is a little more strict when she's at daycare, in that they eat snack and lunch at set times, but even then they will give her a snack at a different time if she asks for one (and once one kid is eating, they all want a snack!), and there are days she doesn't eat her lunch but I hear she ate lots at snack time, lol!

(sorry for the multiple posts, I keep thinking of things to add! haha)

Also, I think part of our approach has to do with lo having issues gaining weight when she was a newborn (she went from 3rd percentile at birth to falling off the charts...and has since been around 25th percentile)--I'm still traumatized by worrying about her growth from then, so I never say no when she wants to eat, even though her growth has been completely fine now for two years.

She technically eats on a schedule but honestly, it seems like she is eating constantly. I am a grazer as well (actually my own eating schedule is similar to this, minus the snacks to/from daycare).

Here is a normal day for her:
- 7am - breakfast, which she picks at for the next hour as we get ready
- 8:15am - small snack en route to daycare
- 8:30am - daycare offers her their own breakfast (she often doesn't eat it)
- somewhere between 10-11am - morning snack
- somewhere between 12-1pm - lunch
- afternoon snack after nap (usually 3pm)
- 5:30pm - small snack on way home from daycare
- between 6-6:30 - dinner

We aren't particularly strict about the times, but I really do try to serve them meals + 1-2 snacks vs. all-day grazing. Mostly its so that we can eat our meals together and they can focus on eating, trying the foods we all eat together, table manners, etc. Plus, I feel like I would just constantly be prepping food, cleaning up, cleaning them up, etc if they grazed all day. But that's just what works for me/us!

I don't let him graze, but he generally has small meals/snacks throughout the day. I SAH and he is our only LO so I can be flexible.