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BLW and other table food question

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DS loves his solids and eats 3 solid meals a day.  He has never been into purees and lately he doesn't even want to eat his "own" food.  He'd eat it if we feed him by himself, but if we are all seating down for a meal together, he'd refuse to eat his own food and instead cries/screams until we feed him a little piece of our's.  I think 7.5 months is too young to eat our foods since we have various salt/sugar/spices in our's, so I've been putting his food on my plate and pretending that we are all eating the smae thing.  But I think he has that figured out now too.

The other thing is, I've been encouraging him to try and feed himself with little pieces of food that I put on his plate.  He usuaully would make two or three attempts at it, and if he doesn't get it, he screams and a melt-down ensues. 

Should I let him eat our food? And are there any tricks to encourage LOs to feed themselves without it dissolving into a melt-down?

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Re: BLW and other table food question

  • telyntelyn member

    I don't really salt or sweeten our foods too much ( a little okay, but I just keep salt on the table) and just give LO what we are eating. It's better for us and her anyway. Spice- that I don't hold back on. Kids in other cultures eat spicy food, it's a Western idea to keep baby food bland. Yes they have more taste buds and are more sensitive-but if he doesn't like it, he won't eat it.

     As to feeding himself, he may suffer from performance anxiety- he doesn't want to fail in front of you. Try not really watching him. Put the food on his plate after you serve yourself  and then talk to your husband don't pay LO a ton of attention and see if he gets better. This is how I got our LO to start crawling, I just put the toys out of her reach and then pretended I wasn't watching. Now sh'es cruising around the house. The other option is to make it a huge game. take a mouthful off his plate and exaggerate eat it with huge bite and lots of noise "Nom, nom, oh it's soo good. Yum, yum. " I got LO to use her sippy by doing that.

    Also, melt downs happen- ignore and redirect. For example, yesterday I made a parmesan pasta with chicken (LO fav meat), tomatoes and spinach. She got a serving of everything on her high chair (I don't do plates for her, she's at a throwing stage). She ate the pasta, ate the chicken, ate a few tomatoes and tried the spinach- not a fan, no big deal. Then we had some cake.No sweets for LO so she got yogurt. She wanted Hubby's cake, threw her yogurt down and screamed. I picked her up and took her away from the table. and that was that. 15 minutes later, I offered her some yogurt and she ate it no problem.

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    Just let him eat what you are eating. Spices are fine, just minimize the salt. I doubt there is much sugar in your dinner. Dd has been eating the same as us since we started solids at 6 months. If you were doing BLW, this is what you would be doing.

    This.  I'd like to also add that at 7.5 months, DS got very annoyed with small pieces of food because they were hard to grab and hold on to but he was a champ with big pieces of food that he could hold and gnaw on.

    both of these...the pieces you feed him should be about two inches long.  As your LO gets older you can give him smaller pieces as his pincer grasp gets better 

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