trouble eater!!!!!!!

god help me i'm losing my mind!!!

jack has started to be a real pain to feed at night and sometimes at lunchtime too. he will have a couple of spoonfuls of food, then when i give him another, he'll
swipe at the spoon flinging food all over the place!
OR he will chew the food a few times then spit it out.

we've introduced the naughty chair last night and it took us an hour to feed him!!

he went to bed today without lunch, i hate to do that but he wouldn't eat a sandwich i made him (after 30mins!!). i didn't want to give him something else as i don't want him to think he'll always get something better if he doesn't eat what's offered first.

sorry for the novel, i'm stuck for what to do with him

i've tried to give jack a variety of stuff on his plate at meal times, but he just picks at things and then throws it on the floor. i'm still at the stage where i have to spoon feed him his food mixed together otherwise he won't eat it. or i give him a section of sandwich at a time and then other things like fruit or crackers after he has had the sandwich.

is gabriel eating off a plate by himself? how old is he?

gabriel will be two on fri and has just started eating at the table instead of a highchair. but i remember that stage - more food would end up on the floor than anywhere else. i think at that age i was giving less options, sandwich and fruit i think. in the end tho if they arent hungry we cant force them. i was saying to my husband the other night the same thing and remembering how we used to have to sit at the table until we had eaten whatever it was on our plate, nothing worse than cold cabbage or brussel sprouts or whatever other vege it was.
oh and i think at that age gabriel had a spoon and i had one too, but he is a tactile chappy and loves to mush his food with his hands.

i think most kids go through that stage - paris did too and i got so worried!

we just tried the little of lots theory, a little bit of lots of different things, and we're the same - if i don't feel she has eaten enough she can have fruit, and fruit only. if she's eaten everything or made a really great effort - then she might get desert, or a bikie, or sometimes just a hanful of choccy chips.. something little but that she realllly likes.

i think also they can get bored - so maybe try introducing a few more different foods, make it exciting, or something that worked for us was to get kiddie bowls and plates with pictures on the bottom - we would say to paris that the fairy was hiding under her food - and if we wanted to find her we had to eat the food - and bit by bit she would be uncovered.. and it would encourage her to eat more so she could see the fairy... sounds like a lots of hassle - but usually that was what worked when we really didn't think anything else would.

alot of the time its about negotiation, lol, i think most mums could quite easily fit in to any hostage negotiation squad. lol

I don't know if this is the case with Jack but Hannah wouldn't eat properly when she was teething. I was having the most difficult time trying to get the little weasel to eat about a month back... then found that she was getting her molars.

Now she's eating fine again! (Well as fine as ever... she's always been a bit of a problem eater)

hehehe liz! jack will do that sometimes too. give him a spoonful and he'll look like he's loving it, then spit it out. then he'll wait and either pick it up and eat it or try to put it back in his plate

thanks nikki, i'll have a look for molars when he's up. my god it's soooooo hot here today!!! 32deg!!