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Almost 12 month old spitting out foods
« on: August 18, 2009, 19:36:11 pm »
Help, my son who will be 1 at the end of the month, started out doing really well with solids.  He would eat almost anything at all.  When we started moving to foods with more texture, at first he would spit them out but once he got used to them he would be fine.  Well in the last month and a half he started spitting out and throwing his food. At first I thought he was full, or wanting something new, but it continually got worse.  Now he barely eats anything at lunch and dinner but his yogurt at lunch and a fruit cup at dinner.  He will start out munching on bread or cheese or some cut up fruit but after a few bites he spits it out and refuses to even open his mouth to try something else (unless it a fruit cup or yogurt) some days (usually only one meal) he'll be great he'll eat chicken, avocado, potato, almost anything.  Then he's bad again.  Sometimes he'll eat off of our plate while he's walking around, but I don't want to make a habit of that, as I'm afraid he won't sit down to eat.  Not sure what to do now, I thought it might be teething but I even tried jarred baby food and he refused that too. here is his schedule
6am wake up
7am 180 bottle
8am cereal (he usually eats this fine)
930/10 nap
1130 180 bottle
12 lunch
3 180/120 bottle depending on how much lunch he ate
5 dinner
715 bedtime bottle 240
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Re: Almost 12 month old spitting out foods
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2009, 21:36:15 pm »
Hi and welcome to the boards-
I am pasting a note that someone wrote on the What did your toddler eat today thread:
I found it helpful! Sounds like it could be teething or just the desire to be on the move that may be limiting what your LO is eating- I try to take a week by week look at food, and not day by day...


ignoring behaviour that is undesirable (like not eating)
praising when she does eat
offering a choice of only two meals and allowing her to choose
growing our own veg and strawberries so she might get intersted in eating them
getting her involved in preparing dinner
not putting new foods on her plate with existing foods as she might go off the whole plate
putting new foods in a bowl on the table to see if they tempt her
letting her taste new foods from our plates if she asks to (but imposing the same rules like sitting down nicely to eat)
making sure every meal has one savoury and one sweet course (from the booklet)
making sure every savoury dinner has all 3 food groups in it (from the booklet and one I had forgotten
Cathie
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