How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child?

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:41:11 GMT

CassandraTan — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:41:11 GMT

@cherrygal Every child is different but what I do as a parent is I focus on nourishing, not force-feeding. Gaining weight in a healthy way takes time and consistency. Make sure to feed your child proteins, healthy fats, carbs, fruits, and vegetables. It is important to give them proper and balanced nutrition.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:04:38 GMT

lakshmiSG563 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:04:38 GMT

Every child is different, so what worked for us might not work for everyone. My approach concentrated on nutrient-dense foods instead of just bigger portions. A calorie-rich but healthy foods like eggs, cheese, yogurt, and nut butters. Slow and steady weight gain is totally normal for some kids!

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:21:12 GMT

StillThinking — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:21:12 GMT

a few things to note:

1. If you are significantly taller than others of your age group, it probably eat too must of the things they put in chicken to make it grow faster so… It’s bad and may even shorten your life.
2. Milk doesn’t help with calcium, it in fact removes calcium from your bones, you can check up on it.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Tue, 01 Mar 2016 12:09:14 GMT

sharonkhoo — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 12:09:14 GMT

xueyan:
My boy is P2. Height about 1.3m. Only 25 kg.

He drinks fresh milk in the morning and before he sleep. For recess time, he drinks full cream milk.
He likes to eat rice.
But he just doesn't grow sideways.

I think it is because he doesn't like titbits. For all these childhood years, I think he eat less than 10 sweets.

Am keen to help him gain a few more kg.

Liquids will fill him up faster than solids, so he will consume fewer calories if he drinks a lot. Maybe get him to eat rather than drink for recess? Does he eat meat and veg with his rice? Try to get him to eat more nutrient-dense food like meat, dairy (but not milk), eggs, nuts, tofu etc. You don't really want to encourage titbits and sweets - a lot of sugar, fat and salt, and a bad habit to build up. He may not always be thin, then he will have to change his habits.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Tue, 01 Mar 2016 07:08:46 GMT

bestwishes — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 07:08:46 GMT

xueyan:
My boy is P2. Height about 1.3m. Only 25 kg.

He drinks fresh milk in the morning and before he sleep. For recess time, he drinks full cream milk.
He likes to eat rice.
But he just doesn't grow sideways.

I think it is because he doesn't like titbits. For all these childhood years, I think he eat less than 10 sweets.

Am keen to help him gain a few more kg.

Try 四神汤
茯苓，淮山，莲子和芡实（或薏仁）

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Tue, 01 Mar 2016 06:58:12 GMT

yolomomo — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 06:58:12 GMT

Ds was like yours… but don’t know why mine ate a lot of snacks haha. Does he exercise? Usually if they spend more time exercising heavily they get hungrier.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Tue, 01 Mar 2016 05:37:55 GMT

xueyan — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 05:37:55 GMT

My boy is P2. Height about 1.3m. Only 25 kg.

He drinks fresh milk in the morning and before he sleep. For recess time, he drinks full cream milk.
He likes to eat rice.
But he just doesn’t grow sideways.

I think it is because he doesn’t like titbits. For all these childhood years, I think he eat less than 10 sweets.

Am keen to help him gain a few more kg.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:35:59 GMT

Funz — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:35:59 GMT

Yes, the extra calories come from the high sugar content.

I tried Pediasure with DD for awhile when she was a todd as she was really not growing and not eating well. End up having a lot of phlegm. PD told us to stop Pediasure and put her on multivites.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:26:38 GMT

Jennifer — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:26:38 GMT

Pedisure contains a high amount of sugar.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:46:26 GMT

lee_yl — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:46:26 GMT

slmkhoo:
lee_yl:
Cousin's children (6 and 3) hardly eat during meals and they drink many baby bottles of PediaSure throughout the whole day. Very exp!

Not a very good habit as they need to eat solid food sooner or later. It's also not good for speech development as chewing builds up muscles needed for speech.

Used to be very, very skinny. They are extremely \"picky eaters\".
So no choice, must drink more milk, better than nothing.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:35:00 GMT

sharonkhoo — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:35:00 GMT

lee_yl:
Cousin's children (6 and 3) hardly eat during meals and they drink many baby bottles of PediaSure throughout the whole day. Very exp!

Not a very good habit as they need to eat solid food sooner or later. It's also not good for speech development as chewing builds up muscles needed for speech.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:17:48 GMT

lee_yl — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 07:17:48 GMT

MyPillow:
lee_yl:
Drink PediaSure Complete (recommended by pediatrician to gain weight).

Once or twice a week, replace rice with mashed potatoes with butter and milk or pasta with butter and cheese.
My dc took pediasure before when he was 7+yo but i find it v sweet, so i stop.
continue to drink full cream fresh milk. My fren kids really become round round after 6mths of Pediasure . But fren's child likes milk ,does not like table food ,even at age 7yo!
agree, eat more butter ,cheese cakes , EGGs etc can help too .

take multi vits, fish oil over a period of time , abt 3 to 6mths to build immunity

round round? :please:

Cousin's children (6 and 3) hardly eat during meals and they drink many baby bottles of PediaSure throughout the whole day. Very exp!

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 06:39:15 GMT

MyPillow — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 06:39:15 GMT

lee_yl:
Drink PediaSure Complete (recommended by pediatrician to gain weight).

Once or twice a week, replace rice with mashed potatoes with butter and milk or pasta with butter and cheese.

My dc took pediasure before when he was 7+yo but i find it v sweet, so i stop.
continue to drink full cream fresh milk. My fren kids really become round round after 6mths of Pediasure . But fren's child likes milk ,does not like table food ,even at age 7yo!
agree, eat more butter ,cheese cakes , EGGs etc can help too .

take multi vits, fish oil over a period of time , abt 3 to 6mths to build immunity

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 06:30:24 GMT

lee_yl — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 06:30:24 GMT

Drink PediaSure Complete (recommended by pediatrician to gain weight).

Once or twice a week, replace rice with mashed potatoes with butter and milk or pasta with butter and cheese.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 06:07:41 GMT

sun sun sun — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 06:07:41 GMT

Hi beaniecow,

Think your son is on the small side… my girl coming to 6 yrs old is about 112cm and weighs 17.5kg. Her appetite is very small and refuse to drink milk, so I will try to sneak some milk powder into her oats whenever possible.

For dinner, my mil will normally feed her with pork ribs soup and make her eat the meat with rice.

The TCM we went to also advocate swimming.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 05:47:58 GMT

Jennifer — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 05:47:58 GMT

beaniecow:
Can children having cough still execise?

Cox i just enroll him to tae kwon do lesson

Does the TAE Kwon do session involve cardio or aerobics exercises that increase heart rate and increase lung capacity?

The TCM I usually see advised exercises that increase the 肺活量 in order to build immune system.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 02:14:43 GMT

beaniecow — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 02:14:43 GMT

Can children having cough still execise?

Cox i just enroll him to tae kwon do lesson

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:59:32 GMT

beaniecow — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:59:32 GMT

Ok ler… execise during weekend nt much

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:56:21 GMT

Jennifer — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:56:21 GMT

beaniecow:
He is 7 coming 8 this yr.

He drinks one pack milk at night. As for bread is fibre bread.
He does eat fish, veg nt much lo.. fruits yes he eat, but once he is down with cough i will nt let him eat any fruit

What sort of exercises?

Drinking enough plain water?

Bowel pattern?

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:06:17 GMT

beaniecow — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 01:06:17 GMT

He is 7 coming 8 this yr.

He drinks one pack milk at night. As for bread is fibre bread.
He does eat fish, veg nt much lo… fruits yes he eat, but once he is down with cough i will nt let him eat any fruit

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:11:52 GMT

sharonkhoo — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 23:11:52 GMT

beaniecow:
My son waist 22cm,weight 20kg.height around 115cm.

He look skinny but tall.
He doesent like to eat greeny veg,eat only particular like spinach,carrot,cabbage.
He eat half a bowl of rice dinner, b4 he sleep he still ask for milk or bread .. breakfast 2 piece of bread,or one piece sugar roll b4, have also tea break.
He can eat so many meals in a day but still look so skinny.
Very often get sick due to cough. How to boost up his skinny size and his health

How old is he? Anyway, he is old enough to eat normally. Does he eat meat? For building muscle, he will need good sources of protein such as meat, fish, eggs, tofu etc. Milk is good, but you should limit him to 2 cups a day to encourage him to eat more protein. Bread - is it white? If so, switch to wholemeal. Are his many meals nutrient-rich or just snacky stuff? What about fruits? I wouldn't worry too much about veg since he is taking some. Bein skinny is not really a problem as some kids just have that kind of body type, but getting sick often is a sign that something is not quite right. If his diet is no good, you may want to supplement with a general multivitamin (just look in any pharmacy) until his diet improves.

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:29:57 GMT

beaniecow — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:29:57 GMT

My son waist 22cm,weight 20kg.height around 115cm.

He look skinny but tall.
He doesent like to eat greeny veg,eat only particular like spinach,carrot,cabbage.
He eat half a bowl of rice dinner, b4 he sleep he still ask for milk or bread … breakfast 2 piece of bread,or one piece sugar roll b4, have also tea break.
He can eat so many meals in a day but still look so skinny.
Very often get sick due to cough. How to boost up his skinny size and his health

Reply to How can a child gain weight? What do you feed your child? on Fri, 01 May 2015 07:24:22 GMT

parivinu — Fri, 01 May 2015 07:24:22 GMT

Include Robousta banana , butter (small amount), salads, vegetables ,sprouted pulses and meat