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11mth old baby - refuses to be fed

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AxelF · 26/03/2007 17:08

I was so pleased when my dd started feeding herself. However my dd now won't let me feed her at all. This is proving quite difficult because she hasn't mastered the art herself. So we go to the effort of cooking a nice healthy dinner and then watch as she squelches most of it in her fingers, sticks some of it to her face, manages to eat very little and eventually ends up having a major tantrum in her chair. We do pass her spoons of food and she will manage a few of these, then she gets annoyed starts dropping things on the floor and the tantrums are back. I really dont know where we are going wrong. Any ideas greatly appreciated.

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Elasticwoman · 26/03/2007 22:41

More finger food, less squelchy at the moment I'd say.

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MerryMarigold · 26/03/2007 22:44

My ds went through this phase at around 9-10 months. Didn't last that long, thank goodness! He had been eating about 50% himself (and is back to that now, glad to say - 2 hour meals were a large part of the day!). Just gave him things which were easy to pick up eg. bitesize pieces of chicken, broccoli florets, pieces of potato, rice cakes etc. There's lots of recipes and ideas on the BLW thread. I don't have the patience for it myself, but it will give you loads of ideas...

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krabbiepatty · 26/03/2007 22:46

My DD refuses to be spoonfed and always has - I have given up and she is a self-determined BLWer...

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Olihan · 26/03/2007 22:53

My dd was a BLW and I'd never heard of it then. She's now 19 months and still refuses to be fed. Like the others have said, go for food that she can pick up, don't worry about how much quantity wise is going in - she'll be getting plenty of calories from her milk and let her get on with it. It's a lot less stressful.

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Frizbe · 26/03/2007 22:55

have you tried the giving her a spoon/letting her feed herself method, then slipping a bit in, whilst she's dithering? works here sometimes!

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AxelF · 27/03/2007 09:30

That great thanks - calling it BLW actually makes me feel like its a choice we are taking. I will let her carry on for a bit, we do try the 2 spoons - she doesnt allow very much of that, she does eat some veggies she can pick up but on the whole every meal ends in tears (like last night) where we have no clue what she wants and she ends up not really eating anything.