Getting your 2 year old to eat.

My nephew is that same way he is 2 but by looking at hin you would think he was 1 but the doctors said that it is normal too. He is healthy in every other aspect just try to get her to eat but dont force her make sure she gets lots of milk and maybe some of those kids protein shakes also get her some flinstone vitamins kids love thoses cause they think its candy good luck and hope this helps.

The most important thing to do is not to make an issue out of food with her now otherwise you may be dealing with an eating disorder later on. The only thing I would recommend at this time is to limit the amount of fluids she is drinking to leave room for more food. She may initially cry, but if you give in to her, she will continue to drink more than she's eating. Eventually, without having so much fluid, she will be more hungry and eat more solid food. As a reward, you can give her a special cup or juice box.

My almost two year old is the same way. I got some books on toddler friendly foods and have been taking ideas from there, I make hotdogs look like an octopus, chicken sausage look like snails, and ants on a log is always yummy. I also try to give her things that she likes rather than new stuff. If I give her smoething she doesn't like (for instance, any noodle that is not a spaghetti noodle) she willg et frustrated and refuse to eat. If I give her a plate of the correct noodles, grapes, strawberries, and an arrowroot cookie, she will usually at least eat a few bites. Good luck! Toddlers have such stubborn little minds of their own. :D

My daughter never seemed to go through this phase although my son did big time at about 2 years. I'm not sure about getting them to eat more. There wasn't anything I could do to convince my son to eat. Eventually he just outgrew that phase and moved on to eating everything in sight... LOL.. Like you I was worried about my son not getting enough nutrition while he wasn't eating properly. One of the things that I went with was soup broth. I'm big on making homemade soups. Since my son was drinking still I'd just save some of the soup broth when ever I made a pot of soup. I'd just warm it up a bit and put it into his sippy cup. I'd make myself a cup of tea at the same time and we'd sit and have a tea party. I'm not sure how beneficial it was to him but it made me feel better.

The only thing that you can do is just keep good food readily available to her. My son who is almost 5 now doesn't eat meals. He is a snacker. The DRs have told me it is a phaze that he would outgrow, they told me this when he was 2 years old. I am not about to force my child to sit and eat if he truly isn't hungry. I tried cutting back on his snacks before meals but nothing worked. So now I ensure that I have carrot sticks, apples, strawberries, raspberries etc... readily available for him in the fridge. So when he is hungry and wants to graze it's not just cookies and candy. I have been able to ensure that he is getting food and the nutrition to go with it. For your daughter, I woudl try to get her juice with a lot of vitamens and minerals in it. You can try cutting back on her water and liquid intake little by little not enough for her to notice though.

easy.... plug their nose, it will make dem open their mouth, den stuff the food in their mouth and close their mouth haha

I have a 13 month old.he eats everything that i would give for dinner and lunch.Takes milk 4 times.One thing you can do is to make your child play more so that she will be hungry enough.Next try to deviate her attention while feeding by singing songs.This works on my son when he refuses to take his cereal.But never force food upon your child.If they are hungry,they will eat.

I think your doctor is right. She's just a lazy eater, and prefers the ease of taking a drink. She gets bored with eating and chewing. Maybe it would be an idea to give her milk to drink, and perhaps crumble a little bit of a rusk into her milk. This way, she will be taking all the nutrients of food, whilst drinking and there won't be so much worry about how much she eats. I've seen this so many times before. She'll come out of it, but in the meanwhile, you can get her tastebuds going in other ways. Good luck with this, and Brightest Blessings.

I used to do that when I was younger because to me eating was just boring. I always ate when I went to my grandmas house though. My grandma would let me help her cook and to me that was fun, and then I always ate because I was proud that I made it myself! Other than that I can't remember the name but I see it on tv all the time theres some kind of drink that has a lot of nutrients in it, you could go to the store and find something like that see if she likes it. She will be drinking a lot but at least she will be getting more of the nutrients she likes.

Is she drinking juice, water, or milk? Soda? I wouldn't allow soda, limit the juice and let her have all the water or milk she wants. If it's juice that she loves, I'd make it a point to offer her the flavors she likes as fruit instead. If what she's is eating, is healthy foods & there is some variety to her diet; I wouldn't worry about it much at this point. As she gets more & more active (and if she's 2 she'll be getting plenty more active soon enough) her appetite will kick in soon enough.