https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:11:21 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2731149 Mon, 01 May 2017 20:44:20 +0000 winniebee 2731149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tlynne: honestly nothing really "helped" my little guys gain weight. I added in calories to help my peace of mind. They are skinny 5-10% kids and probably will be until high school :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730276 Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:16:00 +0000 gingerbebe 2730276@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tlynne: well I just figured carbs are a given. My son's favorite foods are fresh fruit and rice so those were staples in his diet. The fat was purely for calories. Otherwise he would live on watermelon, water, and plain rice and be perfectly happy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730247 Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:46:33 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2730247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@tlynne: nope, mine hasn't, but I still try to throw it in just in case. She just doesn't eat anything really. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730219 Fri, 28 Apr 2017 08:16:18 +0000 Portboston 2730219@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just wanted to chime in and say my son also gained 3lbs from 9m to 15m. I actually just checked his medical records and he went from 21lbs to 24lbs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730214 Fri, 28 Apr 2017 08:03:22 +0000 tlynne 2730214@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Your toddlers really gained weight from adding fat? Mine sure didn't...it wasn't until I started encouraging more carbs...like rice...that he finally started gaining some. We use butter, whole milk yogurt, coconut oil, avocado, peanut butter all the time, but it doesn't affect LOs weight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730197 Fri, 28 Apr 2017 06:01:00 +0000 hellobeeboston 2730197@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My little man dropped significantly in his percentiles too... he was breastfed and wouldn't take a bottle until he was 10 months so it was a challenge while I was at work all day... I was totally good with formula which he also wouldn't drink so we did a lot of oatmeal, mixed with breast milk or formula. Added peanut butter for calories!</p> <p>Added butter to lots of things, eggs &amp; veggies. My lo also wouldn't eat avocado. </p> <p>We did a lot of full fat yogurt, on its own and mixed with oatmeal and fruit. </p> <p>As he got older he liked mashed potatoes cooked with cream and butter, ground beef, sausage, cheese, etc. he's 18 months now and I think starting to catch up! I think once they start moving so much and running around they drop on their charts a bit! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730175 Fri, 28 Apr 2017 00:00:19 +0000 QBbride 2730175@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DesertDreams88: are you breastfeeding or formula feeding? That should dictate which growth charts your doctor uses because typically breastfed babies are smaller. </p> <p>My girl is super tiny yet nobody (but me haha!) is concerned. She was 15.5 lbs at 1 year, 18 lbs at 18 months. I add butter to her veggies, give her peanut butter on toast, she loves eggs and cottage cheese. </p> <p>Unfortunately she hates 10-11% yoghurt and avocado or I would give her those too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730171 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:29:33 +0000 Mrs Green Grass 2730171@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree that you shouldn't worry too much. But you can also add whole milk powder to milk or food to increase calories also any of the cereals can be added easily. </p> <p>We finally hit 29 lbs at 4.5 over here 😬. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730133 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:37:51 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2730133@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DesertDreams88: we don't have any appointments from 18 months until 4 years unless we want to here. My doctor today said I could come in once a year for measurement checks if I wanted but he wasn't concerned because she got herself back on the 20% curve she started being on at 6 months. She was born at 98% and dropped to 50% and then settled at 20 and dipped below that at 15 months I think because of a stomach flu bout. He was concerned at that appointment but left it until the 18 month one to see what our next course of action would be. </p> <p>She is always happy and pretty high energy. She also walked early so I feel those are factors for lower weight gain. And some kids just won't eat more which sucks. It doesn't matter what I do, mine will go for a day or days eating barely anything, like a few blueberries or some peas even though she is offered veggies, cheese, yoghurt, fruit, pasta etc-stuff that other toddlers would scarf down. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730118 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:44:24 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2730118@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Smoothies! Fatty yogurt and avocado can sneak in there easily! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730116 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:34:19 +0000 gingerbebe 2730116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh now that DS will eat peanut butter (and we still have weeks he literally won't eat anything) we do peanut butter crackers or I send him into the yard with a spoonful of peanut butter, which he thinks is a huge treat. I never did this bc I forgot, but someone told me about sour cream in smoothies in lieu of yogurt because of the fat content. We DID do whipped cream on berries or pancakes or waffles (with a splash of vanilla and a tiny bit of maple syrup). Oh and we made mellow curries with coconut CREAM instead of coconut milk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730110 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:23:47 +0000 pinkb 2730110@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD slipped on her growth curve when she was younger. Our dr asked us to add more carbs in, which she usually says to do less of for most kids. We also did whole fat Greek yogurt, liverwurst, olives, real butter ( generously :happy: ), and olive oil. She also really liked smoothies with peanut butter in them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730108 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:19:51 +0000 travellingbee 2730108@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Neither of my kids likes avocado but will eat it in a smoothie. Especially if you add in some cocoa powder. The chocolate and avocado go nicely together, strangely and it masks the avocado flavor of it. I do banana, whole milk, avocado, cocoa powder. My oldest calls it chocolate milk smoothie. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730103 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:54:11 +0000 Pollywog 2730103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went through this. Try full fat yogurt (LO loves Silk almond milk yogurt,), smoothies, buttered bread, and lots of little snacks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730097 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:45:26 +0000 erinbaderin 2730097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For what it's worth, B gained 3lbs between 9 and 15 months too. But we did avocado oil, butter in all his veggies, mixed some cream in his milk, and let him have ice cream. Oh, and 10% fat yogurt. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730075 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:59:46 +0000 DesertDreams88 2730075@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yoursilverlining: that's a good idea, I'll see if they'd be willing to add in some weight checks.</p> <p>ETA: We do whole milk dairy, but I probably need to re-up his cheese and yogurt intake... we've been slacking on that because he was sick recently. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730067 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:30:34 +0000 yoursilverlining 2730067@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DesertDreams88: my LO dropped from about 80% to 3% within 18 months. The ped had us come in a few times for weight checks between 18 months and 24 years - although he wasn't really concerned. Just wanted to chime in, so you don't worry too much. </p> <p>Like others, we did (and still do) whole milk, whole milk yogurts, cheeses etc. cooked veggies in butter and olive oil, add a bit of butter to all pasta dishes. Lots of rice (which was easy as LO has always loved rice and all carbs!). Lots of homemade pizzas for the carbs + cheese and fats. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730057 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:02:02 +0000 DesertDreams88 2730057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@peaches1038: I wasn't clear in my original post, I was rushing - my ped uses the CDC charts, not the WHO charts, which is silly but I didn't get a chance to convert it yet. Also, my statements for percentile were from birth, which was misleading. He was 80th percentile at birth, and he is 28th percentile now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730029 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:44:41 +0000 gingerbebe 2730029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did whole fat dairy and put olive oil and butter in everything. DS1 doesn't like to eat cheese (like cubes or slices) and doesn't like avocado, and only learned to like peanut butter recently at 2.5 years so I feel ya. </p> <p>We did whole milk all day, he had a full fat yogurt for afternoon snack, we made risotto/rice porridges with butter, parm, and various meats and veggies, I made boxed Mac n cheese but put in extra butter and Parmesan, cheese pizza, and I made smoothies with full fat yogurt, milk, coconut oil, spinach, and fruit. I made chicken soup from scratch and didn't strain out the fat, when I cooked ground beef for spaghetti or tacos I didn't drain the fat, and made a lot of fried rice for dinner using olive oil and chopped meat and veggies and scrambled eggs. We also served a lot of eggs - scrambled, omelets, French toast (fried in coconut oil!) and stirred into just about anything I could add it to. For instance you can make a custard oatmeal - make oatmeal with water, but stir in butter, cream, and a beaten whole egg off the heat until incorporated, and put back on heat and stir vigorously until cooked through and add brown sugar and vanilla and raisins or whatever. We also make a cream of rice or grits the same way but savory with cheese and butter and beaten egg. </p> <p>I stopped doing all that before he turned 2. He's right at 50% now and learning to enjoy food on his own (he was a reflux baby and just did not ever want to eat/drink anything). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730017 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:27:13 +0000 peaches1038 2730017@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My guy gained 3 pounds from 9-15 months as well. He was 21.8 pounds at 9 months and 24.8 pounds at 15 months. According to the WHO charts, he was in the 83rd percentile at 9 months and 77th at 15 months. Have you double checked the percentiles yourself?</p> <p>Eta I checked the CDC charts and he went from 71 to 53% </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730010 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:11:55 +0000 youboots 2730010@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cheesecake! That's what the dr told my grandma. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730009 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:07:01 +0000 Chuckles 2730009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We added a little half and half to my son's milk to add some extra calories. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730005 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:57:44 +0000 winniebee 2730005@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DesertDreams88: ah ok gotcha! I would def try the peanut butter, butter or olive oil on veggies, also parm cheese on veggies is good. full fat everything. lots of cheese if he likes it. try not to stress too much - if he eats well and is happy, he's probably just finding his curve. plus all that mobility now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2730003 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:56:24 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2730003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree with winniebee that 3 pounds in 6 months sounds good! To me anyway. Ha. Especially at that age when it starts slowing down. I have a skinny toddler who has been in the 20%ile ish since 6 months now with a drop at 15 months (maybe due to stomach flu) and now back at that curve level at 18 months. </p> <p>Things I do/have done to try and help. Highest fat cottage cheese you can find. Highest fat yoghurt. There is 10% fat here. I mix ground almond and hemp hearts into oatmeal, smoothies, and homemade pancakes. Mine doesn't like avocado either, but it can also be hidden in a smoothie. I also mix a spoonful of ground almond into yoghurt. Nuts or nut butters either on crackers, toast, or veggies would be good. I made a trail mix for my toddler of raisins, cashew pieces, peanut pieces, coconut slices, and pumpkin seeds and put it in those munchkin snack cups for her. She really loves cashew halves. </p> <p>Good luck. It can be quite stressful to have a lower weight kid or one who drops lower on a weight curve for some reason. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2729997 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:51:38 +0000 caterw 2729997@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oatmeal with cream, butter or olive oil on veggies, peanut butter or cream cheese on toast (maybe with butter underneath also), anything full fat dairy. My not- great eater likes yogurt drinks and will have them as a drink with her meal- Siggi's makes some that are not awful for sugar content and are whole milk. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2729995 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:48:29 +0000 bees_knees 2729995@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@DesertDreams88: add coconut oil to anything you can! In oatmeal, on toast, etc.</p> <p>ETA: I second the peanut butter/avocado/smoothies ideas! My kiddos love smoothies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2729991 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:42:28 +0000 DesertDreams88 2729991@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: 9m to 15m (so he is 15 m now) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2729990 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:41:09 +0000 tlynne 2729990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>RICE!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2729982 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:31:53 +0000 winniebee 2729982@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How old is he? 3 lbs in 6 months seems like a very good gain for after age 1. I think my kids gained around 5 lbs a year between 12-24 months.</p> <p>But to answer your original question, have you tried peanut butter? Whole fat yogurt is good too. I don't buy fat free or low fat anything. You could do smoothies that include whole milk or yogurt or avacado / peanut butter? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/helping-a-young-toddler-gain-some-weight#post-2729979 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:29:31 +0000 DesertDreams88 2729979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO has only gained 3 lbs in 6 months :( He has fallen significantly in percentile. Granted, he started crawling and then walking, but still. He is happy but Dr &amp; I are concerned.</p> <p>Give me some tips for helping him gain some weight in a healthy way. </p> <p>I know avocado is usually the first recommendation but he doesn't like it.... if you have any tips for getting him to like it, I'd love that. </p> <p>We're also going to use melted butter in his veggies and ricotta in his pasta. </p>