My baby isnt eating.?

Question

I have a 13 month old baby girl. She weighs 20 lbs . I personally think shes really skinny and underweight. Feeding her is a struggle and soo frustrating because she just wont eat. she'll drink milk but wont eat. i feel like shes not getting her proper nutrition i need help, what should i do? is something wrong with her?

Answer 1

OK so keep a diary of her eating habits for everyday. And then you can look and see what she is really eating. Try those pediasure drinks. And btw my daughter weighed 19 lbs at her 2 year check up. Look at your family history and your husbands are you both small framed, how big were you both at birth, and look at your surrounding family. Your parents and his.

My first two are really small. MY oldest weighs 40 lbs at 6 years and my son weighs 32 at 4 years. But I have always been petite and my husband is only 5'8. His mother id 5'1 and his father is 5'6.

MY father is 5'5, but my mother is 5'10. So look at you family history and genetics. That plays a big part in it.

Answer 2

Her weight is fine. Children eat when they want to. Sometimes it seems like my 3 year old doesnt eat at all. But her doctor said she will when she wants to!

As long as she is pooping and peeing okay it is fine.

Answer 3

go ahead and stop giving her milk that way she'll be hungry and start to eat food giver lots of vegges and fruits you need to healp her in her eating rutine that happens to my son he refuses to eat but he dont leave his bottle so i stop giveng him milk he use to cry alot for hes milk but only that way he was going to eat food instead of just drinking milk so i just give him milk3 times a day and khow hes more healthy than ever (o by the way when he was just on the milk his iron was getting low khow is normal.so hope this healps for you good luck...

Answer 4

That is a tough age.  How many teeth does she have?  Keep offering foods to her..some kids snack a bit at that age...cut up cheese, lunch meat, fruit, cheese puffs by gerber are a good soft snack...make sure she gets her vitamins.  

there are some baby food books out there...

Superfoods: For Babies and Children (Hardcover)

by Annabel Karmel

go to amazon and type in "baby food" and a lot come up!

Good luck!