The Ogre Nurse >: 9
Hello Stephanie,
How much flexability does what you’re feeding Maddie possess? Thirty years ago my ped. demanded that I have a single (small) bowl of ice cream because it was food, was easily counted… and demanded I eat ice cream so called “normal” food as a special thing once, and once only per week.
I traded either a bread or a fruit exchange (c. 15 carbs +/-) and simply skipped the fruit for desert, or pulled a single piece of bread (or its equivilent) off the plate. Sometimes I’d toss in some of my milk just to make it an honest ~exchance~.
You’re right its ~empty calories~ but its also milk, fat, essentially the same things you’d LIKE her to eat just in a form she’d probably love to… others have suggested it… consider asking her what SHE’d like to do… it might get you into her head a little.
Merely a thought for whatever it might be worth…
Jeff
P.S. The nurse’s technique-method of talking with you needs a severely massive overhauling, however… the jist of what she’s saying in this case anyway… IMHO (fwiw) is pretty good. It sounds like she’s got some experience with diabetes that she’s not telling you about perhaps….?