Dining Dramas: Toddler Feeding Problems, Solved

My 1 yr old son is more picky when he is teething, especially with the spoon. He has also become very independent and wants to do everything himself. I have tried to give him mostly finger food, and he also still gets formula. He loves throwing food on the ground, and watching the dog eat it so I have to put the dog out. More food goes on the floor than in his mouth. He likes to eat baby food directly from the pouch (ie. Happy Baby), but I prefer to make his food. Any suggestions?

my daughter is 17months n she does not want to eat to eat no meat what should i do

I have a 16 month old son. Lately, he's been making faces and pushing the food away, pretty much everything I give him, he doesn't want. Even the foods he usually eats. Not sure what to do, I sometimes struggle to get him to eat some days. Please help!

My 17 month old son prefers to eat meals as a family. If 1 or both of us is not eating with him, he is not interested and will wait to eat until we eat with him. There are also some days that he eats everything we offer and other days he hardly eats anything at all. I try to remind myself as long as it all balances out at the end of the week, it's ok. :-)

I have twins who are 15 months old. My son will eat everything you put in frount of him. My daughter won't try anything unless she sees me eat it first. For a couple days she refused to eat anything. I wasn't sharing meal time with them at that point. Once I noticed that she would watch me while I ate I began having meals with them daily. I found that whatever I ate and then said "yummy" about, my daughter was eager to try it. Now I can get her to eat almost anything. Good luck parents!!

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Our son is 14 months and doesn't like to touch food that is different than 'dry foods' like crackers, toast, freeze dried fruit. He wants us to feed him everything else and some days doesn't each much of anything except goldfish and animal crackers. Our doctor says too he will grow out of it- but it would be great for him to eat our food instead of the graduate meals- if that- that he does eat. Any suggestions on getting him to expand his eating?

My daughter is 17 months.. Her eating habbit are very weird too.. Some days she will pig out and others she wont. It depends on what she wants. I try to make her eat heathly, but the food she wants i also label as snack/junk food. Im not too worried about her eating habbits. She drinks enough fluids throughout the day. I think some of us parents are too paranoid.

I really need help moms, my daughter is 17 months and is EXTREMELY picky. She hardly eats ANYTHING!!! She used to only want to eat crackers, now she will go day refusing to eat, and when i try to feed her, she throws up. He doc says she will grow out of it, but i am REALLY worries. it's not normal for a baby to just refuse to eat!!!! PLEASE ANYONE..... IDEAS??????

Our issue is drinking. We have not taken away the bottle yet because she isn't inclined to drink from a sippy cup. She'll sip here and there throughout the day, but we still give her a bottle of milk when she wakes up and before bed. I think she wouldn't drink more than an ounce or two of fluids all day if we took away the bottle. Any suggestions?

We've found that there's a correlation between how much our 18-month old eats and when was the last time she pooped. Obviously certain foods will speed up or slow down the works, so if she's backed up, she won't eat. If things are flowing smoothly, she eats like a piggy piggy!

My daughter is 16 months old and will only eat cheese. She will eat grilled cheese, and quesadillas but that's about it. Other than that it's animal crackers. This just started recently, I used to be able to give her anything and she would eat it. I don't know what to do to get this to change.

My daughter is 17 months old and she is a very pickey eater. She will some table food but not very much. She at times likes those Graduate pasta pick ups and other foods from Graduate but lately nothing at all but water, juice, milk. She still likes the #2 beef, lamb and mac and cheese. Is this normal???

My daughter is 16 months and she refuses to eat anything other than what I have labeled as snack food. I went to the grocery store and bought a lot of different healthy foods that I thought she would eat but I ended up spending lunch time preparing several different meals that she wouldn't touch.

It's normal. They get "too busy" to eat.

My daughter is 14 months and has a day here and there where she will not eat anything. She will drink water, juice and milk but other than that nothing. I'm hoping this is normal?