What to do if a two-year-old doesn't eat?

If you are a parent who is taking care of a child for the first time, it is very difficult, especially when it comes to children's meals. Some children particularly don't like to eat, so parents should change the taste and make it carefully according to the taste that their children like very much, especially the types should be diversified. Let's learn together what to do if a two-year-old child doesn't eat?

Don’t think that babies have no sense of taste. They are very sensitive and the older they get, the less they can tolerate food that is only slightly salty or sweet. A single flavor will gradually make your baby bored. Therefore, if you want your baby to eat more, the food you give them should be delicious, varied in style and variety. Secondly, babies have different needs at each stage, and their preferences can reflect the needs of their bodies. Children change slightly every day, and significantly every three to five days. If the food remains unchanged, it cannot meet the baby's physical or psychological needs. For example: If a baby starts eating porridge at the age of six months, and if he still eats porridge for every meal at the age of one year, then the baby will definitely refuse to eat. At this time, the mother has to think about whether the baby is no longer satisfied with eating soft and rotten things? Then you should start feeding your baby some soft food. In addition, after six months, you mash fish and vegetables and mix them with porridge for your baby to eat. If your baby stops eating after one year old, is it reminding you that your baby should eat rice and vegetables separately like adults? Then you can try to fry a dish and mix it with soft rice or porridge for your baby to eat, so that he/she knows that stir-fried dishes taste much better than blanched dishes. Remember to feed your baby everything, otherwise he will be prone to picky eating and malnutrition in the future. Rice, porridge, noodles, buns, dumplings, chicken, duck, fish, vegetables and fruits should all be given to the baby. Start with a little bit at a time, from soft to hard, from little to more, and let the child adapt slowly. The cooking methods range from blanching to stir-frying and mixing, and the seasonings range from just salt to adding oil and vinegar. If you spend a little more time, you can make the buns into the shapes of small animals and the vegetable puree into the shapes of stars and the moon. This way the baby will have the desire to eat. Children over one year old can eat basically anything, including yogurt. My daughter’s appetite improves after drinking yogurt. The weather is hot now, so children naturally have a poor appetite. So you can drink more soup, such as bone soup or borscht, to let your baby replenish nutrition from the soup.

The older the baby gets, the stronger his/her awareness will be. He/she will be curious about everything in this world. Naturally, he/she will be distracted when eating, sleeping or defecating, and will not follow the adults' instructions. Parents should not always worry about or blame their babies for being disobedient. You should know that this is the baby's nature. On the contrary, parents should think of ways to cultivate good habits for their babies. It is important to develop the habit of eating, drinking, defecating and urinating on time from an early age, so that the baby can develop from conditioned reflex to independent consciousness, and eat, sleep or defecate at the right time. A certain mother's daughter has been eating porridge at noon and in the evening since she was six months old. She eats at the baby table and will not get out of bed until she finishes her meal. Gradually, the child will know when to eat and when to play. But even so, my daughter started to fight with me after she turned one year old. When she encountered food that didn't taste good or wanted to play, she would want to get down from the baby table and refuse to eat properly. As she grew older, the more she resisted. At this time, in addition to changing the taste and type of food, I would also lock her in the room and not let her eat at the table with the adults. Sometimes when she behaves well, her mother will let her eat with her parents, so that she can see how adults eat and stimulate her appetite. I don't know since when, my daughter likes to eat other people's food. Even if she eats the same food as you, she refuses to eat her own. Then a mother would scoop some rice from her own bowl for her to eat, and even incorporate games into the meal: a mother would put some food that she could eat in her own bowl, and also put some in her bowl, and then ask her to feed her mother, and at the same time the mother would also feed her, and they would feed each other together and open their mouths together. This method not only exercises the child's coordination ability, but also makes her feel that eating is an interesting thing, thereby eliminating her aversion to eating.

Babies are prone to indigestion. Sometimes it is not that they are unwilling to eat, but that they cannot eat. Drinking some digestive soup from time to time can improve their appetite. For example: boiling water with barley sprouts, malt, coix seed, lily, or boiling water with hawthorn, old kidney porridge, and chicken gizzard lining can all help digest food and remove accumulation. Massaging your baby can promote his sleep and help digestion. Regularly massaging the Du meridian on the baby's back (that is, on both sides of the spine) can prevent malnutrition. Using both hands to massage both sides of the baby's waist near the buttocks in an alternating and gentle manner can help the baby defecate. Also, I found that if my daughter slept well, she would eat well.

In this article, we have learned what to do if a two-year-old baby refuses to eat. Many parents think that the baby has no sense of taste yet. This is a wrong understanding. A two-year-old baby has already developed a sense of taste, so they will not eat unpalatable dishes. You can stew some soup for them.