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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > <HTML> > Hi everyone, > <BR> My husband and I have been struggling with a finicky > eater. My daughter is 20 months old and is on the small side (15% for weight, > 25% for height). It seems like eating has become a great battle for us. > She never wants what is on her plate. I try to fix meals that I think she > likes, but we never know. Some days she likes it, other days she doesn’t. > She takes about 5 bites then stands up in her chair and screams until we > she gets down. > <BR> We have tried everything. We’ve tried taking the > plate away, we’ve tried feeding her ourselves, we tried letting her sit > on our laps. We try not to get angry or force her to eat. But it’s always > the same. She screams and cries until we put her down. And she goes without > a complete meal. (I would say she about one good meal a day, the other > two are battles). Also, she doesn’t get bottles or drink too much juice > and I don’t let her snack all day so she loses her appetite. > <BR> I don’t have any other children to compare what > is normal. She has a cousin who is 5 months older and is a heavy child > (95% for weight) and eats constantly. She seems healthy, has only been > sick once since birth. But it bothers me. Everything I read says don’t > make a big issue out of it. It’s a control thing. But it’s hard to ignore > because she is so small. She’s always been a good baby. She’s done everything > early, sleeps through the night, etc etc but at meal time, it’s always > a struggle. > <BR> Any suggestions are greatly welcomed. > <P>Carol > <BR><A
HREF="http://pages.prodigy.net/kcnix">http://pages.prodigy.net/kcnix</A> &n bsp; A site about Speech and > Language Development, Birth-5 yrs.</HTML> > Hi. My mom says I used to be a really finicky eater. I’m an adult now and
doing fine! Also, I wanted to let you know of this great site I’ve found to be very helpful and informative. It answers questions on parenting, children and family issues. Its at >http://welovekids.com/askaparentdoc.htm< Good luck. SJ.
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Hi all, > Janet I couldn’t agree with you more. Since I started sitting down with my > two little ones. (22 months and 8 months) the 22 month old has been eating > much better. Sometimes it’s not possible for me to sit down for the duration > but when I do boy it makes a difference. > I, like a lot of new mothers was frantic when my hungry little bunny turned > into a picky little monkey… when she weighed in 1lb+ lighter at her18 > month visit than when she was 16 months I nearly lost my reason. Having > spoken to lots of moms (not doctors) and listening (really listening) to my > own mom I realized I was about to create a problem if I didn’t just let her > do her thing. > The comment you made about >"From the age of one year, it is *your* > responsibility to *provide* your >child with nutritious meals, it is *his/her* responsibility to *eat* what >you provide." couldn’t be more true.
Another reason to follow this advice and not create feeding problems with your toddler: when our daughter was about 5 she was diagnosed with a medical problem that required a very stringent and restrictive diet for many years. It was pretty hard on all concerned — but because we had not made mealtimes an occasion for battle, it was easier to get a 5 year old to comply with the restrictions and eat what she needed to eat. I am sure that if she had a lot of food issues at this point, that it would have been even harder than it was. As it was, she was agrieved by the unfairness of it all, but still cooperative with the regimine.
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Wow! If that information doesn’t make us moms and dads take heed then I don’t know what will. Thanks for the input. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Like everyone else said, you really shouldn’t worry and *especially* don’t > get into a fight about it. I’ve mentioned the following advice before, on > this ng: > "From the age of one year, it is *your* responsibility to *provide* your > child with nutritious meals, it is *his/her* responsibility to *eat* what > you provide." > This has saved my sanity since I first read it (when my kids were 16 months > and had for 4 months been eating *nothing* solid but cheerios and waffles — > and > pizza if we went out). > I do have one other suggestion (which I just started with my own kids): Sit > down and eat every meal with her. With three of them, and my husband is out > of the house 15 hours a day, I have always made them separate meals and > lately they have been refusing pretty much everything except waffles and > crackers (again). The only times we eat as a family are when we are out — > and they eat much better then, but I always assumed it was the change of > scene that caused that, rather than the fact that Dad and I were sitting > with them. > So last night, as a desperate experiment, I made dinner for the four of us > before Dad got home and -omigod- they ate chicken breast stuffed with ham, > cheese and broccoli and a whole box of Rice-a-Roni (= rice with vermicelli > and a creamy sauce to make it sticky, for those not in the US). There were > two tablespoons of rice left for Dad and I had had so little my stomach was > still growling … So I sat down with them again this morning and they > demolished three scrambled eggs, a bunch of canned peaches and pineapple, > 1/4 banana and 1.5 huge muffins … and for lunch they still managed raisin > toast, whole wheat waffle and about 6 oz grated cheddar. >Children in single parent households whose mothers sit down and have > dinner with them every night do better on such outcomes as grades, >graduating high school, not getting arrested [boys], not getting >pregnant [girls] than children of intact families where the family >does not sit down to dinner together. One of the most consistent >positive findings in child development research has been the importance >of the family interacting together around the dinner table. >If Dad is never home at a reasonable hour to do this as a family, then >Mom can have family dinner with the kids. Dinner isn’t about stuffing >x amount of nutrients in — it is one of the few times to share as >a family.
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Thanks for the info. I hadn’t heard this. –Janet Triplets (10/21/96) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >Children in single parent households whose mothers sit down and have > dinner with them every night do better on such outcomes as grades, >graduating high school, not getting arrested [boys], not getting >pregnant [girls] than children of intact families where the family >does not sit down to dinner together. One of the most consistent >positive findings in child development research has been the importance >of the family interacting together around the dinner table. >If Dad is never home at a reasonable hour to do this as a family, then >Mom can have family dinner with the kids. Dinner isn’t about stuffing >x amount of nutrients in — it is one of the few times to share as >a family.
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Hi all, Janet I couldn’t agree with you more. Since I started sitting down with my two little ones. (22 months and 8 months) the 22 month old has been eating much better. Sometimes it’s not possible for me to sit down for the duration but when I do boy it makes a difference. I, like a lot of new mothers was frantic when my hungry little bunny turned into a picky little monkey… when she weighed in 1lb+ lighter at her18 month visit than when she was 16 months I nearly lost my reason. Having spoken to lots of moms (not doctors) and listening (really listening) to my own mom I realized I was about to create a problem if I didn’t just let her do her thing. The comment you made about >"From the age of one year, it is *your* responsibility to *provide* your – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->child with nutritious meals, it is *his/her* responsibility to *eat* what >you provide." couldn’t be more true. >Like everyone else said, you really shouldn’t worry and *especially* don’t >get into a fight about it. I’ve mentioned the following advice before, on >this ng: >"From the age of one year, it is *your* responsibility to *provide* your >child with nutritious meals, it is *his/her* responsibility to *eat* what >you provide." >This has saved my sanity since I first read it (when my kids were 16 months >and had for 4 months been eating *nothing* solid but cheerios and waffles — >and >pizza if we went out). >I do have one other suggestion (which I just started with my own kids): Sit >down and eat every meal with her. With three of them, and my husband is out >of the house 15 hours a day, I have always made them separate meals and >lately they have been refusing pretty much everything except waffles and >crackers (again). The only times we eat as a family are when we are out — >and they eat much better then, but I always assumed it was the change of >scene that caused that, rather than the fact that Dad and I were sitting >with them. >So last night, as a desperate experiment, I made dinner for the four of us >before Dad got home and -omigod- they ate chicken breast stuffed with ham, >cheese and broccoli and a whole box of Rice-a-Roni (= rice with vermicelli >and a creamy sauce to make it sticky, for those not in the US). There were >two tablespoons of rice left for Dad and I had had so little my stomach was >still growling … So I sat down with them again this morning and they >demolished three scrambled eggs, a bunch of canned peaches and pineapple, >1/4 banana and 1.5 huge muffins … and for lunch they still managed raisin >toast, whole wheat waffle and about 6 oz grated cheddar. >For comparison: yesterday, for breakfast and lunch, all they ate between >them was 1/4 muffin, a (big) bowl of yogurt with pureed fruit, 1/2 oz >mozzarella >and a couple dozen goldfish crackers … >Now don’t get me wrong — I realize this is too good to last … but I’m >hoping that by sitting with them and modelling consumption of the sort of >stuff I want them to eat, we might begin to get somewhere … if only >because my daughter has never been able to keep her hands out of my plate. >:-) >Final thought: how much milk do you give her? I think I have always tended >to give mine too much, thus putting a dent in their appetite for solids. >–Janet >Triplets (10/21/96) > Hi everyone, > My husband and I have been struggling with a finicky eater. My >daughter is 20 months old and is on the small side (15% for weight, 25% for >height). It seems like eating has become a great battle for us. She never >wants what is on her plate. I try to fix meals that I think she likes, but >we never know. Some days she likes it, other days she doesn’t. She takes >about 5 bites then stands up in her chair and screams until we she gets >down. > We have tried everything. We’ve tried taking the plate away, we’ve >tried feeding her ourselves, we tried letting her sit on our laps. We try >not to get angry or force her to eat. But it’s always the same. She screams >and cries until we put her down. And she goes without a complete meal. (I >would say she about one good meal a day, the other two are battles). Also, >she doesn’t get bottles or drink too much juice and I don’t let her snack >all day so she loses her appetite. > I don’t have any other children to compare what is normal. She has a >cousin who is 5 months older and is a heavy child (95% for weight) and eats >constantly. She seems healthy, has only been sick once since birth. But it >bothers me. Everything I read says don’t make a big issue out of it. It’s a >control thing. But it’s hard to ignore because she is so small. She’s always >been a good baby. She’s done everything early, sleeps through the night, etc >etc but at meal time, it’s always a struggle. > Any suggestions are greatly welcomed. > Carol > http://pages.prodigy.net/kcnix A site about Speech and Language >Development, Birth-5 yrs.
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > Like everyone else said, you really shouldn’t worry and *especially* don’t > get into a fight about it. I’ve mentioned the following advice before, on > this ng: > "From the age of one year, it is *your* responsibility to *provide* your > child with nutritious meals, it is *his/her* responsibility to *eat* what > you provide." > This has saved my sanity since I first read it (when my kids were 16 months > and had for 4 months been eating *nothing* solid but cheerios and waffles — > and > pizza if we went out). > I do have one other suggestion (which I just started with my own kids): Sit > down and eat every meal with her. With three of them, and my husband is out > of the house 15 hours a day, I have always made them separate meals and > lately they have been refusing pretty much everything except waffles and > crackers (again). The only times we eat as a family are when we are out — > and they eat much better then, but I always assumed it was the change of > scene that caused that, rather than the fact that Dad and I were sitting > with them. > So last night, as a desperate experiment, I made dinner for the four of us > before Dad got home and -omigod- they ate chicken breast stuffed with ham, > cheese and broccoli and a whole box of Rice-a-Roni (= rice with vermicelli > and a creamy sauce to make it sticky, for those not in the US). There were > two tablespoons of rice left for Dad and I had had so little my stomach was > still growling … So I sat down with them again this morning and they > demolished three scrambled eggs, a bunch of canned peaches and pineapple, > 1/4 banana and 1.5 huge muffins … and for lunch they still managed raisin > toast, whole wheat waffle and about 6 oz grated cheddar.
Children in single parent households whose mothers sit down and have dinner with them every night do better on such outcomes as grades, graduating high school, not getting arrested [boys], not getting pregnant [girls] than children of intact families where the family does not sit down to dinner together. One of the most consistent positive findings in child development research has been the importance of the family interacting together around the dinner table. If Dad is never home at a reasonable hour to do this as a family, then Mom can have family dinner with the kids. Dinner isn’t about stuffing x amount of nutrients in — it is one of the few times to share as a family.
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Like everyone else said, you really shouldn’t worry and *especially* don’t get into a fight about it. I’ve mentioned the following advice before, on this ng: "From the age of one year, it is *your* responsibility to *provide* your child with nutritious meals, it is *his/her* responsibility to *eat* what you provide." This has saved my sanity since I first read it (when my kids were 16 months and had for 4 months been eating *nothing* solid but cheerios and waffles — and pizza if we went out). I do have one other suggestion (which I just started with my own kids): Sit down and eat every meal with her. With three of them, and my husband is out of the house 15 hours a day, I have always made them separate meals and lately they have been refusing pretty much everything except waffles and crackers (again). The only times we eat as a family are when we are out — and they eat much better then, but I always assumed it was the change of scene that caused that, rather than the fact that Dad and I were sitting with them. So last night, as a desperate experiment, I made dinner for the four of us before Dad got home and -omigod- they ate chicken breast stuffed with ham, cheese and broccoli and a whole box of Rice-a-Roni (= rice with vermicelli and a creamy sauce to make it sticky, for those not in the US). There were two tablespoons of rice left for Dad and I had had so little my stomach was still growling … So I sat down with them again this morning and they demolished three scrambled eggs, a bunch of canned peaches and pineapple, 1/4 banana and 1.5 huge muffins … and for lunch they still managed raisin toast, whole wheat waffle and about 6 oz grated cheddar. For comparison: yesterday, for breakfast and lunch, all they ate between them was 1/4 muffin, a (big) bowl of yogurt with pureed fruit, 1/2 oz mozzarella and a couple dozen goldfish crackers … Now don’t get me wrong — I realize this is too good to last … but I’m hoping that by sitting with them and modelling consumption of the sort of stuff I want them to eat, we might begin to get somewhere … if only because my daughter has never been able to keep her hands out of my plate. 
Final thought: how much milk do you give her? I think I have always tended to give mine too much, thus putting a dent in their appetite for solids. –Janet Triplets (10/21/96) Hi everyone, My husband and I have been struggling with a finicky eater. My daughter is 20 months old and is on the small side (15% for weight, 25% for height). It seems like eating has become a great battle for us. She never wants what is on her plate. I try to fix meals that I think she likes, but we never know. Some days she likes it, other days she doesn’t. She takes about 5 bites then stands up in her chair and screams until we she gets down. We have tried everything. We’ve tried taking the plate away, we’ve tried feeding her ourselves, we tried letting her sit on our laps. We try not to get angry or force her to eat. But it’s always the same. She screams and cries until we put her down. And she goes without a complete meal. (I would say she about one good meal a day, the other two are battles). Also, she doesn’t get bottles or drink too much juice and I don’t let her snack all day so she loses her appetite. I don’t have any other children to compare what is normal. She has a cousin who is 5 months older and is a heavy child (95% for weight) and eats constantly. She seems healthy, has only been sick once since birth. But it bothers me. Everything I read says don’t make a big issue out of it. It’s a control thing. But it’s hard to ignore because she is so small. She’s always been a good baby. She’s done everything early, sleeps through the night, etc etc but at meal time, it’s always a struggle. Any suggestions are greatly welcomed. Carol http://pages.prodigy.net/kcnix A site about Speech and Language Development, Birth-5 yrs.
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I, too, have small kids, two boys, who are both in a low percentile. Remember that that percentile COMPARES her to other children and says nothing at all about her individually. She may indeed be perfectly normal for her. Keep in mind that more toddlers are OVERWEIGHT than ever, so your daughter may be perfectly normal yet not compare well to those chunkers. Don’t, I repeat, DON’T let those numbers harass you into making life miserable for yourself and your daughter. If she is healthy, ignore the numbers completely. These issues can indeed become a huge power struggle, and unfortunately, the parents rarely win. Back off entirely. Let her know that she will get what you feed her and nothing else. Let her know that she doesn’t have to eat it but that if she doesn’t she won’t get anything except water until the next snack or meal. Offer a wide variety of healthy food–make every bite count nutritionally, no candy, chips, junk food at all. Kids like this need high-powered nutrition. Set a good example yourself by eating a wide variety of healthy things. Offer a formal meal or snack about every two to three hours, but in-between the kitchen in closed. She will get the hint quickly, believe me. And if she throws a fit, just ignore it. The more attention or any sort that she gets will feed the fire. My boys both tried to do this to me, and we set limits and set a good example and now they eat just about anything. And if they are not hungry at the time or don’t like the meal, they know the consequences. Although I do give them an option of fixing themselves something simple if they wish, but I don’t do it for them (your daughter is probably too young for that option yet). Take heart–she will probably end up a darn site healthier than her chunky counterparts. Remember that heart disease starts as early as three years old, and obese children are much more likely to begin storing fat in the arteries early. TR Hi everyone, My husband and I have been struggling with a finicky eater. My daughter is 20 months old and is on the small side (15% for weight, 25% for height). It seems like eating has become a great battle for us. She never wants what is on her plate. I try to fix meals that I think she likes, but we never know. Some days she likes it, other days she doesn’t. She takes about 5 bites then stands up in her chair and screams until we she gets down. We have tried everything. We’ve tried taking the plate away, we’ve tried feeding her ourselves, we tried letting her sit on our laps. We try not to get angry or force her to eat. But it’s always the same. She screams and cries until we put her down. And she goes without a complete meal. (I would say she about one good meal a day, the other two are battles). Also, she doesn’t get bottles or drink too much juice and I don’t let her snack all day so she loses her appetite. I don’t have any other children to compare what is normal. She has a cousin who is 5 months older and is a heavy child (95% for weight) and eats constantly. She seems healthy, has only been sick once since birth. But it bothers me. Everything I read says don’t make a big issue out of it. It’s a control thing. But it’s hard to ignore because she is so small. She’s always been a good baby. She’s done everything early, sleeps through the night, etc etc but at meal time, it’s always a struggle. Any suggestions are greatly welcomed. Carol http://pages.prodigy.net/kcnix A site about Speech and Language Development, Birth-5 yrs.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > <HTML> > Hi everyone, > <BR> My husband and I have been struggling with a finicky > eater. My daughter is 20 months old and is on the small side (15% for weight, > 25% for height). It seems like eating has become a great battle for us. > She never wants what is on her plate. I try to fix meals that I think she > likes, but we never know. Some days she likes it, other days she doesn’t. > She takes about 5 bites then stands up in her chair and screams until we > she gets down. > <BR> We have tried everything. We’ve tried taking the > plate away, we’ve tried feeding her ourselves, we tried letting her sit > on our laps. We try not to get angry or force her to eat. But it’s always > the same. She screams and cries until we put her down. And she goes without > a complete meal. (I would say she about one good meal a day, the other > two are battles). Also, she doesn’t get bottles or drink too much juice > and I don’t let her snack all day so she loses her appetite. > <BR> I don’t have any other children to compare what > is normal. She has a cousin who is 5 months older and is a heavy child > (95% for weight) and eats constantly. She seems healthy, has only been > sick once since birth. But it bothers me. Everything I read says don’t > make a big issue out of it. It’s a control thing. But it’s hard to ignore > because she is so small. She’s always been a good baby. She’s done everything > early, sleeps through the night, etc etc but at meal time, it’s always > a struggle. > <BR> Any suggestions are greatly welcomed.
The situation you have created by being overconcerned with mealtime is FAR more dangerous to her and your relationship than her eating habits. You need to consistently ignore her eating except to provide balanced meals that are varied and that she can manage. Her size is mostly due to her heredity not to her eating habits and the more you hassle the more hassles you will get. Toddlers are notoriously picky from the perspective of parents because they naturally eat much less than infants. Remember babies tripple their weight in that first year and eat like pigs to do it. Toddlers are not growing at anywhere that rate, are discovering personal autonomy and don’t need anywhere as much food as they did as infants. [relatively speaking] By fussing, nagging and hassling you can’t possible win the nutrition battle, but you can make mealtime a living hell for the next many years. And since her appetite is naturally much less than it was AND her desire for autonomy is growing, it is far more interesting to her to resist you than to eat. Just stop it!!! Provide 3 good varied meals including things she likes and when she finishes, put her down. Feed her healthy snacks morning and afternoon — but again, don’t fuss at her to ‘finish’ ['take just one more bite for Mommy', just try a little tasty of this yadda yadda] The less you care about it — the more you make it HER issue and not yours — the more likely she is to eat — and if she eats no more than she is now, well then at least you have a pleasant relationship and aren’t fighting ‘battles’ over food.
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I have two small children, one very small (under 10% on the charts). They were born 8.5 and 8.25 pounds, respectively. Although they were large babies at birth, they began to slip into the lower percentages on the charts within the first year. My older daughter turned 9 in December and is just 50 pounds. My younger daughter will turn 6 this month and is 35 pounds. She wears size 4-5 clothing. They are both picky eaters, especially my younger daughter. She eats so little I sometimes wonder how she survives. But they are both very bright, energetic, athletic, and talented. Their smaller size and small portions at the dinner table doesn’t seem to bother them in the slightest. And it seems to fit since my husband and I aren’t large people either. Try to not worry too much over how much your daughter eats. It’s what she eats that counts the most. Let her eat nutritious snacks. Try cheese sticks, grapes, yogurt, crackers, vienna sausages, etc. Whatever she likes. Try to keep candies, chips and other foods low in nutrition out of the house so she won’t fill up on those. At 20 months, she may not eat large meals preferring to spread her overall daily food intake equally between meals and snacks. As long as those snacks are nutritious, she’ll get all she needs. Something else we did was to use a Kitchen Open/Kitchen Closed idea. The kitchen is open during mealtime and assigned snack time, but it was otherwise closed. This way I didn’t have to go around saying, "No, you can’t have that now – it’s almost dinnertime." It was just a matter of fact that the kitchen was closed until dinnertime. If they didn’t eat dinner, that was fine. They could eat if they were hungry when the kitchen opened for breakfast. I’m sure they went to bed hungry at least once, but it didn’t take long before they understood that dinnertime was for eating. If your daughter continues to be small, just remind her that good things come in small packages! Take Care! Vicki Surratt Proud Mom of Kathy (almost 6) and Jenny (just turned 9)! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Hi everyone, > My husband and I have been struggling with a finicky eater. My > daughter is 20 months old and is on the small side (15% for weight, > 25% for height). It seems like eating has become a great battle for > us. She never wants what is on her plate. I try to fix meals that I > think she likes, but we never know. Some days she likes it, other days > she doesn’t. She takes about 5 bites then stands up in her chair and > screams until we she gets down. > We have tried everything. We’ve tried taking the plate away, we’ve > tried feeding her ourselves, we tried letting her sit on our laps. We > try not to get angry or force her to eat. But it’s always the same. > She screams and cries until we put her down. And she goes without a > complete meal. (I would say she about one good meal a day, the other > two are battles). Also, she doesn’t get bottles or drink too much > juice and I don’t let her snack all day so she loses her appetite. > I don’t have any other children to compare what is normal. She has > a cousin who is 5 months older and is a heavy child (95% for weight) > and eats constantly. She seems healthy, has only been sick once since > birth. But it bothers me. Everything I read says don’t make a big > issue out of it. It’s a control thing. But it’s hard to ignore because > she is so small. She’s always been a good baby. She’s done everything > early, sleeps through the night, etc etc but at meal time, it’s always > a struggle. > Any suggestions are greatly welcomed. > Carol > http://pages.prodigy.net/kcnix A site about Speech and Language > Development, Birth-5 yrs.
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hi… i have a 7yo. daughter who is normal weight. And i have a 5yo. daughter who only weighs 33lbs. She is tiny…tiny bones. She eats veggies and fruits…she’ll eat just about anything,just in small amounts. I have tried to do assigned snack times and make sure that she eats a good breakfast,lunch, and dinner. Thats working out pretty good,but she is older than your daughter so she understands a little more about the snack times. DOn’t worry too much….she’ll eat when shes hungry.My doctor said she was on the 20th percent on weight and 25th on height and to make sure she eats lots of fruits and veggies. Good luck with your little girl.. Maybe she’ll make a good dancer or gymnast someday:-),
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My son was born in the 5th percentile for height & weight & stayed there. I think you only have to worry if she persistently moves down percentiles. If she’s energetic & not losing weight, then you shouldn’t worry. Many toddlers live on air and cheerios. Good Luck Heidi
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I think you are worrying yourself too much here! Ignore all weight percentages you are just scaring yourself with these! I have twins that eat very little as well – no veggies but mountains of fruit! Children will not starve themselves especially at this age! Just dont let them see you fret or they know they have won! Give them food they like a lot – just to get food into them and start introducing new foods in with this meal one at a time! Susan http://twins.cjb.net Hi everyone, My husband and I have been struggling with a finicky eater. My daughter is 20 months old and is on the small side (15% for weight, 25% for height). It seems like eating has become a great battle for us. She never wants what is on her plate. I try to fix meals that I think she likes, but we never know. Some days she likes it, other days she doesn’t. She takes about 5 bites then stands up in her chair and screams until we she gets down. We have tried everything. We’ve tried taking the plate away, we’ve tried feeding her ourselves, we tried letting her sit on our laps. We try not to get angry or force her to eat. But it’s always the same. She screams and cries until we put her down. And she goes without a complete meal. (I would say she about one good meal a day, the other two are battles). Also, she doesn’t get bottles or drink too much juice and I don’t let her snack all day so she loses her appetite. I don’t have any other children to compare what is normal. She has a cousin who is 5 months older and is a heavy child (95% for weight) and eats constantly. She seems healthy, has only been sick once since birth. But it bothers me. Everything I read says don’t make a big issue out of it. It’s a control thing. But it’s hard to ignore because she is so small. She’s always been a good baby. She’s done everything early, sleeps through the night, etc etc but at meal time, it’s always a struggle. Any suggestions are greatly welcomed. Carol http://pages.prodigy.net/kcnix A site about Speech and Language Development, Birth-5 yrs.
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