How Did You Ladies Get Your Baby to Eat?

At that age, 3 lbs in 6 months is very good, and more than normal. My baby is only 9 months, but in the past 3 months he's gained 10 oz. and was completely staying on his growth line. An older baby's growth slows down a lot. As far as food, just keep offering. Don't give milk until after offering healthy food first.

You are feeding your 14 month old junk food? First and foremost stop giving him junk food and limit the milk to one cup a day. The rest give him some of your food and water in a sippy. When he gets hungry enough he will eat something. This is what I had to do with my son (ped told me to) and now he wont stop eating. He stopped gaining weight but started to stretch out like a bean pole. I have noticed with my son is that when he is in between growth spurts, he doesn't eat a lot. Just a bite here and there.

No junk food for kids of any age.
If your 14 month old is walking, it's really common for the weight gain to slow down because they are more active.
He'll want more food when he's having a growth spurt, in the mean time just offer him healthy food and don't push him.
His stomach is the size of his fist - it's pretty small, and it's common for toddlers to graze.
It's easy for the weight to pile on once they have to sit still in school.
By the time they are teens, the boys eat so fast they barely slow down to chew - so enjoy it now because it won't last.
If your doctor is happy - believe him.

Cut back on the milk if he fills up on it he's not going to have room for food. I'm surprised they told you not to give him the baby oatmeal. I have a very picky eater he ate the baby oatmeal until he was 3 the ped and nutritionist that worked at wic said it was great for him bc of the high iron.
He is only 14 months old if he will eat baby food than give it to him. My youngest also loved the earths best stage 3 soups he ate one with lunch until about 2 but hey it could be worse. You say you are concerned about his weight I wouldn't be not all kids are built the same. My oldest was a chunky baby my youngest never got chunky. While technically he is underweight our dr has never been concerned he has my build stick thin. This is the age where weigh gain starts to slow because they no longer eat every 2 hrs and they are mobile. He sounds fine to me. I would just get rid of the junk food, don't give milk close to meals, offer something like yogurt and fruit if he doesn't eat well.

I'd skip dinner too if I could just eat junk food!

My kids eat almost anything you put in front of them. We have meals, they get food. If they don't eat it, they go to bed hungry. When they were babies, I'd put the same food in front of them 12-15 times, with food I knew they would eat. Eventually they ate everything on their plate.

I don't know if this might help, but our baby is very interested in whatever we are eating. Sometimes it helps to feed him while we are eating ourselves. We just chop it up really small and offer it to baby. He ate lasanga, broccoli and rice pudding last night.

Good luck to you.

I just had to find what foods he would eat (but always offering other healthy things too.) For example, when you said he the the chicken on the floor... my son (16 months) is the same way with chicken also. But chicken nuggets, he will eat. Or maybe if I give him ketchup to dunk in,he may eat some chicken. Try a variety of things, he's not going to starve himself, I promise. Offer lots of fresh fruit - my son can't get enough of this - I give him a whole banana and he thinks he is so big and special and will devour it. He also loves blueberries, mandarin oranges, pears, etc. Just remember he may not always eat much. Its surprising sometimes how little toddlers will eat in a given period of time and then will have other period where eating is all he does. Just refuse to offer him the junk food (once in a great while is okay after healthy eating habits are established) and keep offering healthy things. He will not starve, he will eat. Just offer a variety of tastes and textures so he can choose to eat something that appeals to him.

Here are other suggestions that my son ate at this age:
frozen go-gurt tubes (LOVED this)
hotdogs cut up very small
mac n cheese
pasta noodles with butter
chicken nuggets
french toast sticks
toast with butter, jelly, slice of cheese, or applesauce spread on it
cottage cheese
applesauce
any fresh fruit
steamed broccoli if I add some shredded cheese
shredded cheese

Good luck - remember, it's our job to offer them when and what they need and it's their job to decide how much if any to eat of it :)

Well, what do you mean by "junk food"? And why would it even be offered to a child that age? My daughter at 14 months old was eating cereal (oatmeal, Cheerios, etc.), yogurt, all kinds of fruit that was safe for her to chew herself (blueberries, raspberries, etc.), mashed up sweet potato, cooked carrot pieces, pasta noodles, cheese, beans. She ate it because it was the only food offered to her - we gave to her on her tray in her feeding chair and she just ate what she could if she was hungry. She had never been given junk food before so she didn't know what it was.

Stop giving him the junk, and give him a chance to get interested in other things. Sometimes they have to be offered something 10 or 20 times before they decide to eat it. Keep in mind too that if he is filling up on milk, he won't be as hungry. I think at this age they should only have around 16 oz of milk a day.

My first was picky. A couple things I did was let him graze off our plates bc whatever we were eating seemed so yummy to him! I also let him graze through out the day, that is kind of his eating style. He likes to eat smaller amounts often, so when I began to allow that, it worked well. Like back then I might do a granola bar for breakfast, Gerber has these great little toddler bars in the baby section. He could hold it an gnaw on it and feel like a big boy. Then after he ate he could have a drink. Then maybe a couple hrs later some yogurt, the yo baby is great bc it has lots of calories and is super healthy. Then later on maybe 1/2 a grilled cheese broken into bite size pieces, then a couple hrs later a little applesauce. Just letting him graze through his day helped. And as others have said, I would hold the drink until after the meal. Also, getting together at the table helps a lot. Since having two, I find it so much easier to just get everyone to the table to eat and everyone eats much better! I will let them cart food around occasionally, but for the most part I have very regular meal/snack times. They know what to expect and show up hungry. That has helped my picky eater out a ton! Good luck!!