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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry but if your ped told you increasing calcium will make him taller, then you need a new ped. This would only be the case if your son had had a severely restricted diet for a few years and then moved to a normal diet. [/quote]\

Also thought this was weird and sounds like old wives' tales.[/quote]

Op here. DS was in weekly feeding therapies for a few years because he has low weight between age 2 to age 5. He still has a restricted diet that he does not eat vegetables, limited textures, a lot of junk food and carb, a little bit milk, some meat and some fruit. He does not have a balanced diet, and I have to give him multi vitamin gummies that he does not even take daily. If I force him to eat some food or texture, he will gag and vomit. That is why pediatrican wants him to cut sugar and take more calcium. [/quote]

Okay it’s crazy to me that you didn’t include this in your initial post.

So - you need to start cutting the crap out of his diet. There’s tons of space between “forcing him to eat a food” and endless lemonade.

If you need to, go back to the feeding therapist.

I’d start with a few things:

No more sugary drinks like lemonade at home. Just don’t buy them. Out and about maybe sometimes as a special treat. Maybe replace with flavored seltzer.

Set meals and snack times. No grazing on crap all day. There’s an after school snack, and there’s dinner. That’s it in the evenings. And at snack time, it’s not grabbing whatever crap. You sit at the table, and it’s a reasonably balanced meal - a fruit, something with protein, and a little treat. So, a banana, a string cheese, and a small treat. He can have as many bananas and string cheese as he wants. Once he gets up from the table, that’s it till dinner.

A requirement to eat a veggie at dinner every night. Be creative here. Smoothies work great especially if he’s got texture issues (banana, strawberry and two handfuls of spinach and you can’t even taste the spinach! Put it in a stainless steal container so the color isn’t obvious, and that way you can start with like one leaf of spinach and work your way up slowly). Raw carrots/cucumber/celery/tomatoes? Whatever veggie he’ll eat, he has one every night. If it’s the exact same veggie every night, fine.

Also - make sure that his plate has a little of everything on it. He doesn’t have to eat it, or even try it, but it’s there. That way, it’s NBD if one day he’s inspired and takes a bite. And if he does that BE CHILL. Like it’s the most normal thing in the world. [/quote]

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