My 2.5 year old has NEVER been easy to feed. Even as a baby, he never ate more than 2 to 3oz at a time and I always felt like I was forcing him to eat.Feeding him has always been a chore. An all day thing. The pediatrician has recommended leaving food out on the table so he can pick at it all day, but he forgets that it's there and I have to constantly remind him. We've literally tried everything from leaving food out all day to only giving him three meals a day and nothing in between. Every trick in the book to get kids to eat, I've tried it.It's like he has ZERO interest in food. He's not picky at all, he will try literally anything. He is just perfectly fine going like 18 hours without eating, then he'll take two bites of something and say he's done. He just never seems hungry. He doesn't have a particular food that he will eat a lot of, and he even turns down sweets like ice cream and candy and cookies. Pretty much the only way we've kept his weight even is with pediasure and high calorie and high fat foods, but even that's not enough. Like, I'm excited when he eats two chicken nuggets cause it's the most he's eaten in several days.Our pediatrician keeps pushing it off and having us come in for weight checks and saying "just try harder to feed him, if he doesn't gain weight by the NEXT weight check, then I'll order some tests to be done."I'm feeling extremely frustrated because I feel like there HAS to be something wrong with him. It's not normal for a kid to hover at -3% on the charts and not gain a single pound. I also don't think it's normal to literally never eat and have no interest in ANY kind of food.I should mention that he has been steadily getting taller, which the pediatrician has said rules out a lot of things...Am I being crazy? Or should I start looking for a new pediatrician? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2eFlqij
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