This is so weird my daughter is 16 months old and we are really trying to get her to eat table food. But a lot of times she chews and won't swallow the food. She just opens her mouth and lets it fall out. She does swallow certain foods like Cherios, apples, bananas, cheese and of course french fries. Maybe an occasional chicken bite. Any suggestions? In response to a couple of the posts. My husband is a chiropractor and he does adjust her (good suggestion though!). And for the Fries thing she has only had them a couple of times when we were at restaurants. Other than that she only has fruits and veggies. It's just weird because she used to eat whole green beansand some things now she won't.
don't push or rush into table food...if she likes certain foods (and what's with french fries at that age?...it's the salt we love...) She needs calories and a good multi-vitamin/mineral supplement.
Good luck, Mommie, it's a 24/7 job
I am curious to see what others say because my daughter does the same thing. Sorry I do not have any suggestions!
i am curious too about what advice you get because my boy just take 2 or 3 bites of everything and next he just throwed in the floor so we are back to spoon feed him .
Texture and taste play a big part in if the child decides to eat the food... some kids are more sensitive then others to texture and taste. My daughter, who is 3 years old, has always been what you would call "picky" about foods. She did really well with the mashed up baby food, with a few exceptions, but once we got to table food certian foods/textures seemed to really bother her so she would spit it out.
Here is the list of what she ate when first eating table foods - cereal, rice, bread, crackers, fries, cheese, apples, watermelon, strawberries, yogurt, and on occasion a bite or two of chicken. We would keep putting other food in front of her and she would try it if it was new but usually it was spit out.
Well at three the list has grown a little but not much - cereal, rice, bread, crackers, seseam sticks, fries, cheese, apples, watermelon, starwberries, yogurt, peas, corn, peanut butter & jelly, chicken, ham, pork and nutella on bread. Textures still play a big part in if she likes something. It gets really boring making those things all the time but she eats healthy.
Three months ago we did the whole you eat what we eat because you are getting nothing else. Some kids this works with but with your testure sesitve daughter we did that for two months and she would go 2-3 days eating only breakfast (cereal or oatmeal), drinking and eating nothing else. She was starting to create some bad eating habits because of us, so we searched for other things we could do. After reading books and seeing a dr. phil and the doctors episod we decided to always offer one thing she likes to make sure she is getting food.
I keep trying new things and once in a blue moon she will like the new thing.
My two year old does the same thing. We have decided to just let him do it; thinking if we gave him attention for it he would do it more. I mostly notice it when he sees his drink or another bite of something else. We have been trying to catch it before he spits it out and tell him to 'chew chew chew finish your food' in a sing song way. Right now it's working about 50% of the time. He's a good eater overall so we are hoping that eventually he grows out of it. By the posts here I'm glad to know that we are not alone!
More of the food that she does like - but less of the junk food. French Fries are "modified potato starch" - and the cooking process that takes them from frozen to screaming hot oil changes things and adds more free radicals and bad stuff. Personally.....I've never met a french fry that I didn't love, but I don't let my daughter eat them - it's a huge treat and now that she's five we can practically count the # of times that she has had them on one hand. She will order apples or brocolli to be subbed in when we are at a restaraunt and loves loves loves the healthy food. I ate it like crazy when I was pregnant - and started her on it as soon as she was eating - no premade baby food - just what we were eating - cut up really small, or processed in my mini food processor. Good luck!
Maybe the wrong food- check EatRight 4your blood type, and see. If there is still a problem-
Then check with the International Chiropractic Pediatric Assn for a referral to see if all the nerve supply to her neck is correct
best, k
