Ok so here is my problem and I hope someone will be able to help me out. I have a 16 month old son. Before he turned 1 he was a great eater. What ever I gave him when ever I gave it to him he ate. His eating problem started after he turned 1. We've been having problems with him eating. Sometimes he eates once a day sometimes twice almost never 3 meals and day. But it's always a struggle. Now for the past month it's gotten worse. One day he'll eat something and tomorrow he won't and then he'll eat it again in a few days or vice versa. Its gotten to the point that I have to cook him 2 or 3 different things for any meal just to get him to eat. I'm going crazy with this. I just want him to eat. For the past 2 days he's eaten so little I just don't know what to do. He will put food in his mouth chew it a little bit and then spit it out. He's just become too much of a picky eater. Yogurt is one of the things he still will eat but I don't what him only to eat yogurt. Does anyone know of any vitamins or liquid drops or anything for toddlers that will increase their apptite? Any advice would be helpful.
Mom it is okay that he is not eating. U can try a basic vitamin like the flinstones but they may produce over eating. try leaving different snacks laying about that he can grab when he is ready. I hope that works. I tried it with my oldest daughter it worked for her. Maybe it can work for u.
I wouldn't worry too much. The pediatrician is likely to tell you as long as your son is drinking his fluids and gaining weight, then he is fine. I have two toddlers who have gone through the same phase- they just wanted juice all of the time. Just keep offering healthy foods, it'll work out.
Hi B.. You know what my pediatrician always told me when I came upon this very problem? The child won't starve. He will eat when he is hungry. Doesn't seem to be too helpful at the moment you are going through this, but it IS true. Sometimes, my children seemed to be surviving on a Cheerio. ONE! Not even two! lol Hang in there, they always seem to pull out of these things on their own. (Could also be he is uncomfortable with his teething and just isn't hungry) I do encourage Vitamins daily, and make sure your son is drinking enough fluids. Monitor his bodys' fluids (is he urinating enough, and/or moving his bowels?) I wouldn't cook too many different things, he will come out of this. Besides you do not want to encourage his picky behavior by cooking until he eats one bite of something...Imagine what life will be like when he is 5 years old! Yikes! This will pass , hang in there. And of course, if things get really serious, always call your pediatrician. Good luck
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Hi B.,
I have good news for you. What your son is going through is normal. I have a 4 year old daughter that has good days and bad days with eating..and ironically yogurt seems to be the one thing also she likes..My husband started buying those nutrament drinks in the cans. It kills me cause there $2 a can but the drink has every vitamin and nutrient a child needs. There also very good for active adults that use it for a meal replacement. Be glad that your son likes yogurt..his body is asking for that so most likely that what his body needs..Please don't drive yourself crazy with this...this is so normal. I never ate nothing when I was a kid, now I can't seem to stop eating....this too shall pass...take care.
I have the same problems with my 14 month old son. He,too only likes yogurt. I give him liquid vitamins once a day and pediasure twice a day (in his bottle, 4 ounces milk, 4 ounces pediasure). It too drives me crazy! He loves fruit so I try to give him that as much as possible. It is very frustrating though. I also feed him while he is watching cartoons so that he is distracted...this usually works. However, most of the time I just resort to giving him yogurt or fruit if he refuses the other food because he needs to eat!
Hello B.,
I know your problem as well. My daughter doesn't like vegetables (exept for carrots), fruits (exept for bananas), salads, noodles, mushrooms, meat or rice. She drinks only water and milk, no juice, tea or anything else.
She's a rather small, thin girl and we have had times, she drived me crazy!
BUT: she's never ill! She's now 32 month old and she was ill for two days with gastroenteritis - she puked one night and that was it.
That's the first thing which helped me not to overreacted.
The other: most children eat - maybe little portions, maybe not the food their mother would love to see (me for example: I WISH SO MUCH that my daughter would eat fruits!), but they eat, often more than their mothers have got a notion. Try to note for some days how much and what food your son has eaten. Maybe you will be surprised (I was).
I wouldn't cook different meals for diner/lunch. Maybe it's better to cook on one day a meal which he likes and on the next day something new. With this method I have had small achievements (but achievements). As we "started", may daughter only eats potatoes, carrots and bananas - now she likes a lot of soups (that maybe another possibility: my daughter often doesn't like a certain texture. So she doesn't eat broccoli "original", but she eats it as a soup!).
And, honestley, I never would give some pills or appetizers to her, never! I think, this may confused a lot more inside her little organism than it could help!
After all it's very important to me that she doesn't lose her "natural" feeling of appetite, she have to feel that she's hungry, I don't want to have any "fake-hunger-feelings".
If your son is healthy and if he doesn't lose weight continously (if this is the case consult a doctor!), please: don't worry to much.
Regards,
K.
