Toddler refusing to eat on holiday (19 months?

[chocolateanddietcoke]

My son has been poor at eating away. Even the familiar foods we bought from home I.e wheatabix etc he is not a refusing to eat alongside usual treats like fruit.

He started off ok but has got worse as the holiday has gone on. I'm petrified we'll get home and he won't eat like usual again - we have always struggled with his weight but he's been eating really well leading up to holiday.

Any advice?

Is he drinking plenty @chocolateanddietcoke? And how much longer are you away for?

I wouldn’t worry too much, both of my children (now aged 3 & 4) have done this on every holiday we have been on and I used to worry sick. They both went back to eating normally when back at home. Make sure LO is drinking plenty and just give whatever they will eat to give yourself some peace of mind.

As long as he's drinking don't worry, toddlers go through phases, my 2yr old isn't eating much at the moment, my 6yr old still has phases

I remember the exact same thing happened to us when our son was about the same age when we went in holiday in Portugal. The genuine fear that he was going to starve, be malnourished or never eat normally again was awful. He literally lived off odd bits of bread and butter, bits of fruit and the occasional chip for a whole two weeks alongside drinks and his nighttime formula.

How does this help you though? My baby is now a strapping 6ft 2 nearly 17 year old who demolishes a 16inch pizza on his own after a day out in about 5 minutes 😂
Babies and toddlers are adept at regulating their appetites and he instinctively won’t allow himself to starve or become malnourished. He’s out of his usual routine and is just adapting. My son took a few days of being back home to fall back into the usual routine.

The bottom line is as long as he is having plenty of fluids and is eating even a little of something, ANYTHING even if it’s your worst nightmare of food, he be absolutely fine!

My toddler goes through stages like this anyway and she is 20 months.
Some days she just doesn’t want to eat much so I offer more snacks. Then after a couple of days she will eat again.
Offer fruit/yoghurts. I’ve also started giving her a vitamin drop with some smoothie in the morning to make sure she’s getting them.