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DD is "hiding" her food. WTF?

RomeRomance06RomeRomance06
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This has just started in the last couple of days but after she's eaten about half of her food on her tray she'll start taking handfuls and placing it under her highchair tray in her lap. I find it mildly amusing until I go to take her out and she's covered in salmon or broccoli or whatever. I've tried to get her to stop by saying no and stopping her hand when she's in the process of doing it but she doesn't get it, obviously, because she's so young. Do other kids do this? I know dropping food and stuff is pretty normal at this age and she doesn't do that, but I think it's weird that she's "hiding" it in her lap. Hmm Oh, and I thought maybe it meant that she was done eating but about every other handful will go into her mouth. So, whatev.
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Re: DD is "hiding" her food. WTF?

  • umdbrideumdbride

    Not necessarily "hiding" but over the last couple of weeks DS has gotten really into putting things inside of other things.  At meals, he thinks it is so fun to put his food in the little indented area on the tray where the cup should go - sometimes he takes it out of there and eats it, sometimes he doesn't. 

    Maybe you can put some type of container (they make bowls with suction bottoms) on the tray for her to put stuff in, instead of her lap?

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  • belizeitornotbelizeitornot

    H did this for a while. I don't know why she was doing it, but it definitely wasn't because she was full because like your LO she'd still keep eating....  It seems to have stopped 99% of the time. Now the cool thing to do is dangle something over the edge of the tray for the dog to take from her hand. Confused

    We've just started saying "we keep food on the tray. if you don't want it hand it to mommy/daddy or put it right here". That seems to have worked for the most part.

     

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  • RomeRomance06RomeRomance06
    Well, I just talked to DD's DCP and she says she does this there at lunchtime too and she says it's very normal. She says most of the babies at this age start hiding food. One of the other babies hides it in her diaper - so her mom asked why they found Cheerios in her diaper at night... and, well, there you go. I almost wish she would drop it on the floor because I think it's easier to clean than scraping salmon off of her clothes!
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