In babies with a normal growth curve, appetite usually regresses to its lowest level between the 15th and 18th months. Don't let this scare you. The behavior of refusing to eat or turning to certain foods is quite common in two-year-old children. If your child's growth and development is normal, eating habits are not a health problem, and your child is eating as much as they need, there is usually nothing to worry about. You can follow the percentile charts whether your baby's height and weight are normal or not. While watching these graphs, as much as what percentile is your baby in the graph at that time; It is also important how the transitions take place by months (do you follow a similar trend or is there a significant change). Significant changes should be questioned; your doctor should be consulted.
Don't Worry If Possible; but if you are worried, be careful not to reflect it on your baby!
If you think that any subject related to your child is not developing properly (for example, if you have doubts about eating habits), try not to reflect this anxiety and stress on your child by worrying too much if possible. Of course, we all have different personality traits. If you do not have a worried and anxious nature, there is no problem; You will not project these feelings onto your baby. However, if being worried or anxious is a part of your personality, it is of great importance that you try not to show these behavioral characteristics in front of your baby so that these characteristics do not pass on to your baby. During these periods, your children can encode and understand all your emotions from your body language and behaviors like a computer. We would also like to remind you again that this is the period when our children record everything they perceive in their environment. They absorb everything positive or negative like a sponge without passing through any filters. That's why it's best to consult an expert instead of worrying about these issues and avoid unnecessary worry. Unnecessary worries can sometimes push us to be too intrusive or persistent, and such behaviors can lead to the delay or even rejection of traits or habits that we want our child to develop.
In fact, you can dedicate this week to a little exercise for yourself and your baby. Write down the positive aspects of yourself and your spouse that you like and the negative aspects that you think might be better changed, on a piece of paper, and take care to be objective when evaluating yourself and your spouse. Then, identify with each other the positive and negative aspects that you see with yourself first, and then the positive and negative aspects that you see in each other. We recommend that you write each of these in sentences on separate sheets of paper (or write and cut out on a single sheet of paper). Put the traits of each of you that you would like to change into a bowl. Then think about what kind of person you imagine your baby to be. Of course, separating the features you want to have and not have. If the features that you do not want in your baby are in the basket of features that you want to change in yourself, we recommend that you focus on these issues first. With the support of your spouse, create a plan by thinking that whatever you do about this will be good for both you and your baby. Sometimes we get so caught up in the flow of life that we fail to see that it would be good to change something by taking such breaks. However, these days it is very important not only for yourself but also for the future of your little baby you have brought to life. Also, your routine has changed a lot since your baby came into your life. Therefore, we are sure that such a break and mutual evaluation will relax you and help you to know yourself.