Has anyone else's toddler stopped eating? My 21 month old daughter doesn't seem to want to eat anything! At day care she'll eat most of her breakfast, snacks, and lunch but at home during dinner, she wants nothing. Is this a phase?
Yep. My DD will go through different phases where she'll eat like my husband and then she eats like a bird. Trust me, when she's hungry, she'll eat. :) Just no treats after dinner until she's eaten her dinner. I've been known to wrap it up & stick it in the fridge. Then an hour later when she says "I'm hungry, I want a snack" I can say "You have to finish dinner first." :)
Very normal. Do not push. Just offer healthy options and do not make a big deal out of it.
Children are like everyone else, sometimes, we are just not hungry. Other times she will be starving all of the time.. Follow her lead.
If you think about it, that way makes a lot more sense and is more healthy than eating your biggest meal late in the day. Just make sure she has good healthy options for breakfast and lunch and it eating an appropriate amount of food most days.
Totaly normal! They grow so much slower between 1 and 2 and between 2 and 3 than they did that first year-- they don't need as much food. And it goes in spurts too!
Our job is to put healthy food in front of them. Their job is to decide if and how much to eat.
Of course that's assuming she's healthy, bright eyed and energetic, if she's not it's time for the doctor.....
Normal. My guy sometimes eats well for dinner and then doesn't want much for breakfast, or will eat a great breakfast and lunch and next to nothing for dinner. Tonight we had pork roast with potatoes, carrots, celery and onions, and garlic toast, he gnawed on fresh celery before dinner and hardly touched his dinner, just nibbled on some toast. I expect he'll be ravenous in the morning! Of course he doesn't eat well when getting sick, but then he'll show signs like tiredness, crankiness, sneezing, etc.
The point is, their little bodies don't require as much food as we adults or even older children do, and they will know when they need to eat. Just offer healthy foods, no empty calorie/filling snacks, and she should be fine.
