almost 15 month old eating

Sue&Pasquale · July 2014

My daughter will be 15 months on Wednesday. She will not let me feed her and needs to do it herself. She used to be an incredible eater. we used to joke at how much she used to eat. But for the last month she has been not eating that much.

She will eat fruit all day if I let her! She loves cheese, pasta, and bread. Her breakfast is good and lunch is ok and by dinner she doesn’t eat a lot. She used to love yogurt but wont eat that anymore because she doesn’t want me to feed her. I got her the squeezable kind and doesn’t like it.

I still nurse her morning and night and does drink milk from a sippy cup.

Did anyone find this with their toddler? What does your toddler eat?

thank you.

Sue&Pasquale · July 2014

theresat858 said:

It is normal for toddlers to go through phases of eating a lot and eating less.

I'm confused as to why you can't let her eat yogurt. 15 months is old enough to start practicing with a spoon if she hasn't already. Yes, it might be a bit messy, but how else is she going to learn? Give her a spoon, give her the yogurt, let her go at it.

Fruit is healthy, so let her eat fruit. Offer whatever you are eating for each meal. If she eats it, great. If not - so what? She will eat if she is hungry. It is also helpful to look at a toddler's intake over the course of a week rather than a single day.

she used to love yogurt and now she doesn't. so I thought if I do the squeezable kind it would be fun and different she would do it. I give her the spoon herself and she just doesn't want to eat it. I am just confused of my she doesn't like it anymore when she LOVED it! Oh I let her get messy trust me. every time she eats she needs a bath I made that mistake with my son. didn't want him to get messy and fed him. now at 3 1/2 I am still feeding him sometimes!

lafayettegirl · July 2014

Get some of those spoons that screw onto the squeezable packets and see if that garners her interest. Then she can squeeze and start using a spoon.

But I agree with the PPs. She will eat what and when she wants to and nothing you can do can force her. Be assured, if you are providing well-balanced breakfasts and lunches, then she will be fine at dinner time if she is only eating one type of food.

And do encourage the messy eating with utensils. It will help in the long run and is somewhat entertaining...until clean up!

pb_bride · July 2014

Like PPs said, toddlers don't need to eat as much and they go through phases when they will eat a lot and when they barely want to eat.

My son ate yogurt every day from 6m-12m, then boycotted it for about 3-4m, now he's back eating it. He refused to be spoon-fed very early on... around 7m, so we pretty much did BLW-stye feeding since.

DS is offered fruit at every meal/snack. He's not a big veggie eater so I let him eat as much fruits as he like. For b'fast & snack, fruit is part of the meal. For lunch/dinner, fruit is offered after the meal as dessert.

A typical day:

b'fast - plate of fruit, bowl of yogurt topped with granola, a muffin or cheerios

lunch - usually dinner leftovers

snack - plate of fruit, raw cucumbers, muffin or crackers

dinner - whatever DH & I are eating.

For example, our dinner menus last week were

pulled pork and carrots over spaetzle

tortellini with yellow squash/broccoli/mushrooms & pesto

chinese fried rice with shiitake mushrooms/garlic scapes/carrots, and corn on the cob

yellow squash soup, bratwurst, potato salad

savory bread pudding with broccoli and goat cheese

Tonight we are having crockpot lasagna plus a side of sauteed beet greens.

honeydew01 · July 2014

I agree with all above posters. Theresa said everything I would say and I have a very picky toddler so I know what it feels like.

As far as her liking yogurt but not liking it now, it's very very typical. Your daughter will do this many times with various food. My daughter likes something for a week and does not touch it again. And since she eats very little, every time something is "in" I go crazy and go buy a ton of it (and I should know better by now) and she decides that specific food is "out" of style. Right now mushroom is in, broccoli, avocado, bell peppers are definitely out.

My DD does not like the pouches either. She also refused to be spoon fed after about a week so from early on we had to give her the freedom to play/eat as she wants. Bottom line is that you can't control how much she eats (trust me this is a very hard lesson that I still struggle with and my DD is 16 months old and I've been dealing with it for 10 months). So just let go, offer her whatever you're eating and hope for the best.

honeydew01 · July 2014

Oh I meant to say, continue offering whatever it is that she is not liking anymore. Don't stop offering it because she doesn't like it because just like how she stopped liking it, she may start liking it again. So I'd just offer yogurt on the side and see if she'd eat it after a while.

My daughter does not like eggs for some reason, she doesn't like any form or shape of eggs but to this day I still offer it when we are eating it. My husband jokes that our daughter might change her mind about eggs on her millionth try.

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