How to give 2 year old liquid multivitamins

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My 2 year old is refusing to have his multivitamins (which come in liquid form - mighty kids one).

Ive tried:

• Making it a game
• calling it orange juice / sauce / any treat he likes
• hiding it in his fave yoghurt, in cereal, on toast, in dinner (only cottage pie has worked so far)
• giving it in the evening & morning
• putting it in orange juice / smoothie
• forcing it in! Pinning him down he’s too strong and wriggly and just spits it out anyway. Don’t want to do this daily too!

nothing has worked. How are you doing this or do you have any tips?!

Call me old fashioned but unless there was a specific reason I simply wouldn't bother.

Yeah I wouldn't bother either, especially if child has a varied diet. Id work on the diet first.

Why don’t you just get the gummies? Our 3 year old loves them, reminds us every day about her vitamins lol

I’m surprised at the above answers as i believe the recommendation is for everyone in the uk to at least have vitamin D during the winter.

I used to put it in his milk op.

Is there a different one you could try that might taste nicer? I put ours in milk until DS was a couple of months off 3 and then I moved to a chewy vitamin for 3-7 year olds

I switched to a chewy one for this reason. Not recommended for under threes, but mine was fine with chewing it carefully.

Get a different one in a different flavour.

I hid my DD’s in her morning milk drink.

He doesn’t have or like milk unfortunately! This one is significantly better than other multi vitamins so would like to persist with it..

I have a newborn hence wanting to give the vitamins to minimise nursery bugs

HV told us was fine to give the gummies to 2 yr old

Once he takes it you give him a piece of chocolate, a lolly or some preferred food to cover up the taste and as a reward? Earn stickers for taking it and gets a small toy or treat or outing once he’s earned enough?

Same here.

Usually it's easier to get liquid into smaller kids, hence the recommendation, but absolutely fine to give gummies

We have a chewable multivitamin that's suitable from aged two. It's the consistency of a love heart.
Our dietician took a photo of the packet when we last saw her to recommend it to other parents. My daughter has a lot of food allergies and is a fussy eater so needs a multivitamin.

We switched to gummies at 2.5 for the same reason. We’ve had no problems with him chewing them. My little one is obsessed with them now, it also doubles as a reward for getting dressed and teeth cleaned in the morning so win-win

This is so disordered. Giving junk food as a reward for taking a vitamin to make up for eating junk food.

Why are you claiming that the OP’s child is eating junk food? She said it’s to help guard against childcare illnesses with a new baby in the house.

If one small piece of chocolate or a few blueberries or something helps get the multivitamin taken, then I’m all for it. It probably tastes gross. If I have to take something gross I’m definitely going to eat something nice afterwards to get rid of the taste.

I dont know if the OP is feeding her child junk or not.

The suggestion to reward the child with a sweet treat for eating a multivitamin is disordered.

Food shouldn't be used as a reward, especially junk food. And if the child just had a healthy, varied diet with very limited junk food then they wouldn't require a multivitamin. The suggestion of rewarding the child with crap for taking a supplement that they wouldn't need if they didn't eat crap is disordered.

Its messed up actually.

You have tried all the obvious things like putting in juice, yoghurt etc. You absolutely can’t force feed a 2 year old.
You need to give him gummies or try a different liquid that tastes nicer

Sorry but not completely accurate info if in the uk. Guidance is for multivitamins for all children up to age 5. Even my exclusively breast fed baby needed vitamin d as we don’t get enough from the sun in the uk. In principle I agree with not rewarding things with food but also sometimes you have to weigh up the benefit vs risk and parenting isn’t always linear is it.

You need to chill. Did you miss the suggestion about a piece of fruit instead? That’s not junk. Maybe a bit of cheese, or a cracker or something. Anything to get rid of the taste of the multivitamin.

I’d try the Abidec 1-5, it’s a pretty good multivitamin with Omega 6 and 9 but actually tastes nice so no battles.

Just buy the gummy ones and tell him they are sweets, life’s too short!