How much does your 1 year old eats per day?
My boy is a fussy eater and I feel like he doesn’t eat as much as he should, he used to be very chubby as a baby but since he started solid around 7 months he has become lighter because he hardly eats, I feel bad about this. Any one in the situation and what do you do to improve this?
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I'd start by getting him weighed to know whether this is actually something to worry about or not. Lots of children eat like birds but still gain weight well. As long as he's on or near his centile it's not really anything to worry about, if he's really dropping I'd be looking for ways to fortify his meals with more calories, a dietician should be able to help. I'd contact your health visitor or go to a weight drop in and go from there, they should be able to offer advice right there if he is dropping centiles.
My little girl isn’t as much a fussy eater but just gets fed up of food quickly, I find the only thing she doesn’t get fed up of after a couple mins is pasta stars that we spoon feed to her if we give her any food to hold she’ll just chuck it straight away and most the time not even bother to try it, she doesn’t drink a lot of milk either , she is slow to putting on weight but her health visitor had no worries if it’s more of a problem as baby gets to 18 months then maybe look into it abit deeper, I definitely find spoon feeding does helps my daughters favourite that’s she’ll eat all of all the time is sweet potato and spinach pasta sauce with pasta stars, it doesn’t have too much of a taste and is on the sweeter side so might be something to try with your little one!
Children naturally slim down once they start moving/ get into toddlerhood.
My son was super chunky as a baby and as a toddler he’s like a bean pole! Perfectly healthy though.
He goes through phases of eating more than me then he’ll survive on a yoghurt and one bite of a banana for the rest of the week.
Trust the process. Your job is to offer healthy balanced meals and snacks, their job is to decide what to eat. They’re very intuitive eaters when young and their body knows what it needs.. take all the pressure off of food (hard I know because we’re hard wired to want to see them eat) but pressure honestly makes it worse in my experience. My son eats best when we plonk the plate down and leave him to it x
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