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Anonymous wrote:Blueberries, milk and half a muffin

Oh! And a cheese stick that was requested after eating the above. How she only weighs 20 lbs is beyond me.

Really? That's not much food (unless she eats a lot more later in the day). My 2.5 year old is in a hungry phase. He ate the following:

5 oz milk, 1 scrambled egg plus a few pieces of my egg, 3 vegetable/fruit pouches, 1 piece of toast with a bit of almond butter. He tends to eat a ton at breakfast and lunch and skimp on dinner.

NP here. That's an insane amount, is he just high on the percentiles?

He's tall -- 90% I think at his 2 year old visit -- but about 50th percentile for weight. Extremely active, but they all are at this age. And, like I said, he packs in the calories early in the day and then eats very little at dinner. Also we only do one snack, in the morning, so he eats 4 times a day rather than 5 like some kids do.

Don't worry about it! My kids almost all have one "great" meal, and then two middling or even one non-existent meal per day (oldest is 6 and still eats this way). Which meal it is that they don't much eat changes from time to time, and they'll shovel it in like circus performers during a growth spurt, but as long as it isn't keeping them up at night, I don't try to make them eat.

My son is exactly the same. He had a full-sized bowl of steel-cut oatmeal, a slice of peanut butter toast, a banana, and milk. Then he goes to daycare and eats breakfast again, then lunch and snack, and another snack on the way home. He eats a very small amount at dinner. I'm trying to figure out a way to get dinner food into him on the way home.

Anonymous wrote:16 month old DD eats a whole banana with some cheerios in the am. She also gets a second light breakfast at daycare (typically some fruit and cereal).

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Anonymous wrote:Blueberries, milk and half a muffin

Oh! And a cheese stick that was requested after eating the above. How she only weighs 20 lbs is beyond me.

Really? That's not much food (unless she eats a lot more later in the day). My 2.5 year old is in a hungry phase. He ate the following:

5 oz milk, 1 scrambled egg plus a few pieces of my egg, 3 vegetable/fruit pouches, 1 piece of toast with a bit of almond butter. He tends to eat a ton at breakfast and lunch and skimp on dinner.

NP here. That's an insane amount, is he just high on the percentiles?

He's tall -- 90% I think at his 2 year old visit -- but about 50th percentile for weight. Extremely active, but they all are at this age. And, like I said, he packs in the calories early in the day and then eats very little at dinner. Also we only do one snack, in the morning, so he eats 4 times a day rather than 5 like some kids do.

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Anonymous wrote:Just a glass of orange juice. He doesn't want to eat breakfast. He's fallen off the growth chart but the pediatrician assures us that everything is fine.

Can I ask what your ped's rationale was? I have never encountered this in practice (a child who doesn't eat falling off the growth chart and no concerns being raised...)

He eats dinner. We put him in front of the TV and shovel food into his mouth (but only pasta and rice because that's all he likes). We insisted that the doctor do blood work to see if anything is wrong. He was found to be anemic so we give him iron every day. The iron makes him constipated so we also give him laxatives. I was thinking of consulting a dietician but the inital consult is $300 out of pocket.
I think the doctor's rational is that he's always been small. He fell off the growth chart at 6 months but we were able to bring him back up by 9 months. It's dipped again and apparently that's his growth pattern.

PP, if I were you I'd call Birth to Three for a feeding evaluation. He might need feeding therapy.
We've been there and DS is doing much better. Pediatrician didn't know sh!t about feeding issues.

I heard feeding therapy is where they force-feed the child. Is that true?