OK, we need some help with this one as its driving me and DH mad!!
DD (3 next week) has been a bit of a fussy eater for ages. Decided to tackle it before Christmas with a star for each new food she tried. Its really worked and she is now eating well in both quantity and quality however over the past 3 weeks she has been getting slower and slower. Now the average meal time is about 1 1/2 hours!!! Today as we weren't going anywhere I decided to see what would happen at lunchtime. I spent half an hour eating my lunch with her then did stuff in the kitchen for another half hour so I was still with her, chatting etc. I then left her, telling her I was going upstairs to do some work and to come and get me when she finished and I would put on a DVD for her (something she had asked for earlier in the day) That was 1 hr 45mins ago so 2 hrs 45mins in total
I keep going down with washing etc, chatting for a bit, asking if she has finished etc but she says she hasn't and she is still eating!!!!
I know we should probably put a time limit on meals but am slightly reluctant to as she has only just started eating a good meal and she seems perfectly happy to take so long.
Any ideas?
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Meals taking forever...........................
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tessasmum · 15/02/2006 15:47
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