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difficulty feeding 19 month old

Gonzales · 2009-05-27 08:25:47

Hi All, we usually spoon feed our boy in his high chair with Barney on the TV & this works well. We are trying to teach him to feed himself & also break the TV during feeding habit, as it's not always possible when travelling or away from home for example. When we try to feed him with the Tv off he just shakes his head…

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27-05-2009 9:25am

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Gonzales

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Hi All,
we usually spoon feed our boy in his high chair with Barney on the TV & this works well.
We are trying to teach him to feed himself & also break the TV during feeding habit, as it's not always possible when travelling or away from home for example.
When we try to feed him with the Tv off he just shakes his head from side to side to avoid the spoon of food or pushes it away. I don't think he is associating hunger pangs with food yet (not sure about this)
When we encourage him to take a snack in his hand he refuses it, it looks like he views the food as dirty & does'nt like to get it on his hands. He does seem to have a thing about certain textures in his hand that he does'nt like.
So basically I'm looking for advice from parents with sililar experience on :
1) how to break the TV habit & get him to associate hunger pangs with food.
how to get him to take a snack in hand & later to feed himself with plastic cutlery.
All advice from experienced parents much appreciated - thanks.

trying to feed him now - he last had a bottle 4 hours ago & still refusing food.

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