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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does pickiness have anything do with what the mother eats when she is pregnant?  My sister lived on spicy food  while pregnant and during breastfeeding.  The daughter loved spicy food from the moment she could eat solids.

Am curious as I adopted my 3 kids and have no idea if food preferences are governed by prenatal behavior.  My mother only ate bland foods and I was "picky" because I only ate bland foods until I was an adult. I also had textural issues and could not stand the "dryness" of cheese or peas and the like. (I love those items as adult!) [/quote]

In my personal experience (which I understand is an n of 1 & is merely “anecdata”), it’s mostly the kid rather than the pregnancy diet or parenting.

I did an “experiment” by having fraternal twins. So they were exposed to the same pregnancy diet & roughly the same parenting. One is a tremendously picky eater & the other will eat most things.

My conclusion is that I suspect that parents have far less control over these matters than we think we do...[/quote]

I agree.  I had two children closely spaced together.  The first was a SEVERE selective eater from his first introduction of solid foods (he was very happy to breastfeed).  The second was raised exactly the same as the first, although probably with more exposure to "kid food" because at that point we were trying anything to feed the first one, and had no trouble learning to eat all kinds of foods, tastes and textures -- she's very easy going, can eat most foods and is very adventurous unlike her older brother.

Curiously though, her older brother does like very spicy foods (probably because it can cover up the taste of foods he doesn't like?) while she really can't tolerate a lot of heat.

Anyway I am pretty sure I ate the same foods for both while pregnant/breast feeding.  [b]I do think I drank more alcohol and caffeine while pregnant/nursing with the second (more mellow eater) than the first though.[/b][/quote]

WTF!!![/quote]

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