Son won't eat breakfast

[hannjocelyn]

My son is 2 years old and lately he hasn't been eating much breakfast if at any at all.

I always change what he has so it's not the same every day, but he just doesn't seem to want to eat it, just throws the whole bowl on the floor, then once it gets to around 10am he's hungry and wanting fruit and other bits which I know isn't a bad thing but he's due to start nursery next month and I don't want him to go without eating breakfast.

I've tried cereals, toast with jam, fruit mixed with yoghurt, porridge, made banana pancakes, given just fruit but nothing seems to work

Any ideas that I could try?

Does he have milk when he wakes up?
How long between waking up and offering breakfast?

My dd was like this from about 6 weeks old. Just not interested.

She’s 14 now, and as she was growing up it became very obvious that she was very much an owl.

She tends to eat more in the evenings and not much in the day. Always been like that. And even at 5 or 6 she would sleep until about 10.00 am. She never woke up early as a baby.

So some of it is just how they are.

I give a snack to DD, as she then has a further breakfast at nursery. She likes carpet picnics (get a rug out, little cheese sandwich, few raisins, bit of cucumber), a tea cup with rice crispies in or cheerios, but I'm not fussed if she doesn't eat loads. See what he eats across 7 days, rather than a day. So long as it evens out across the week, I wouldn't worry about individual meals.

DD likes greek yoghurt with granola too, so just a spoonful of yoghurt but you get the protein as well. Give small meals and add more if they want extra.

Just feed him at 10 when he's hungry. At nursery he will be getting snacks by then anyway.

I think he probably needs a routine for a bit - DS responded better to be offered the same thing every morning for breakfast as that tends to be what nursery does. He’s 15 months old and Breakfast for him is either 1.5 weetabix with a cup of milk and a dollop of peanut butter (with half a banana on the side), or a quarter cup of steelcut oats cooked in a cup of milk and pureed berries. He still gets hungry around 10ish and we’ll offer fruit and bits of toast then.

Just feed him when he's hungry. He will soon find his rhythm at nursery, they have snacks etc anyway so it's not like he will 'go hungry'.
Don't make him eat if he's not hungry.

Too early to eat when he just wakes up perhaps.

As a child I couldn't eat sometimes fir at least an hour (at least) after waking. Still sometimes even now. It would make me feel sick if I tried.

Feed him when he is hungry.

My DS was like this until around 8/9 years. I made sure he had a substantial snack for break and left some breakfast bars/ fruit in nursery for him which staff could give him.

My almost three year old has been like this since she started eating. I try and encourage some food as I feel awful sending her to childcare (&soon school) with an empty tummy but she’s just not interested in food until mid-late morning. She eats plenty then.

He's clearly not a breakfast soon after he wakes up person
Chill and let him eat when he's hungry

@RedGoldAndGreene
He doesn't have a bottle when he wakes up, I leave it about an hour before I offer anything cause he just wants to play first thing in the morning

@Rootsmanouvre
That was my thoughts, I didn't want to send him to nursery not having anything.

@lovelilies
Thank you, he's my first so I'm still getting to grips with what the nursery does as we're not in that routine yet.