my 2yo hates food... and he's small for his age

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Anonymous wrote:Let him eat butter!

I am half kidding. My 2.5 year old also is in the low percentile weight too. He was born at 50th percentile in weight and height but experienced a significant dip when I was struggling with breastfeeding. The recovery in weight was very slow and he has been very, very slowly climbing up the weight chart to currently 23rd percentile and 35th in height.. Every pediatric checkup I get very stressed by seeing his weight percentile. So my goal in life in the past two years have been to stuff as much food in him as possible. So I do understand the stress of getting food in a toddler.

That said, I just discovered after talking to his pre school teacher that he ate the MOST out of everybody in the classroom (ranging from 2.5-3.5 years of age) and eats everything, though he is one of the shortest and lightest. He also does eat pretty much everything at home but though he does sometime runaway from food and I have to spoonfeed him to get more into him.

My point is, in my case, even when I did succeeed in stuffing food into him he is still light. Maybe some kids' body types are just more lean and have high metabolism?

My DS was 90th percentile for weight and height around 18mo and our doctor told me to get fat into him for his brain. He's still 90th percentile for height but slimmed to 75th for weight and he eats everything.

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Anonymous wrote:We give him milk with cereal for breakfast (unsweetened cheerios are his fave but we also do honey bunches of oats), but it's probably at most 1 c. He won't drink it straight. We've even tried making chocolate milk with cocoa powder and some honey but again, not interested.
The pediatrician suggested fortified oJ, and yes he will drink that but i don't like the high sugar content.
In the smoothies -- almond / coco milk or coco water

OP, this is a problem.

You say he's a picky eater and are concerned about his calorie intake and then you restrict oj (sugar!) and make smoothies with almond or coconut water instead of milk or yogurt.

+1

This isn't the time to battle sugar....especially the fructosr from OJ!!

Your main goal should be getting calories and fat on this kid AND encouraging him to enjoy food. Who wants a smoothie with coconut water in lieu of a nice creamy whole milk one?! Especially for a kid.

Yeah that's making me wonder if mom is anorexic. I would only give my kid coconut water if he was sick. I think there is a huge overlap between eating issues in mom and kid. My 8 month old ate grapefruit last night. I exposed her prenatally and via breast milk to green vegetables, coffee, hot sauce, grapefruit, etc. People have a crap diet (without realizing, lack of insight is a feature of anorexia) then wonder why their kid is so picky. They don't even expose the kid to good food during the critical 6-18mo span of time when baby is interested in mouthing things because they simply don't have it in the house.

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Anonymous wrote:Op what is your problem? 20th percentile is a normal size. It’s hardly tiny. Also you are giving him disgusting food. You sound like YOU have food issues and body image issues and unrealistic issues about size and masculinity.

Spotted the eating disordered person. Your kid is not hitting all the vitamin and mineral requirements if they're allergic to half the rainbow. Sorry.