My boy is 1 year 4 month old. He is not eating meal most of the time he will keep in mouth and he will take 2 hrs to finish his meal. Plz suggest what I can do

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Hello Parent,

How are you doing, Hope Good.

First let me ask you, what are you going to do with a diet plan if your child is not eating already.

I know diet plan helps us the maintain health of our kids, but first we need to make sure that, our child is eating properly. If a child consumes whatever is served to him or her, then there is no need of a special diet chart or plan.

I think for your problem, You should first find out ways to make eating fun for your child. Once the kids start eating food, then you can introduce various diet chart to improve the health more. Below are few steps which I follow while making my daughter eat, she is 2 years old.

1) No mobiles phone while eating food. 
2) Kids can't sit in one place and eat, it's very boring for them, you can keep changing place, there is no harm in that. 
3) Initially don't bring a big full plate in front of them, for example if my daughter is eating roti chapati, instead of making one big chapati, I make two small chapati, she always gets amazed to see small chapati. I also make chapati sometimes in different shapes too. she loves it. Also instead of just giving plane chapati all the time, I make parata such as Aloo parata, methi parata, palak parata, paneer parata, when veggies are include in a parata, then it fulfill the role of sabji too. 
4) While eating you have to completely involve your child with you, you talk to them, let them think while they eat, let them feel like talking while eating, when they feel like talking thew chew their food faster. 
5) Keep on changing places of making them eat, like, sometimes in hall, balcony, bedroom or kitchen too.

6) Also I discuss benefits of food with my daughter this sometimes helps, for example my i make her drink milk by saying this, What is color of milk, she says white, milk pine se kya milta hain, she says calcium, milk pine se kya strong hota hain, she says bone, by this she understand what is she drinking and why is she drinking. It's always better to make them understand this Instead of just forcing them to eat.

hope this helps

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if you are concern regarding this query for this it is better to take guidance with your doctor and doctor will give you all clarification hgregarding your query so you can consult your doctor once