16m DD eats a good balanced diet and good amounts too (just wont drink any milk).
Problem is she will not feed herself anything at all, not even if she's offered crisps or chocolate (she's never even tasted the stuff so maybe thats why?). As soon as she realises its food, she tries to feed it to me or throws it on the floor, wont even taste it.
When she was about 12-13 months, I went through a month of offering her a variety of just finger foods for lunch but this just made things worse, in the beginning she at least attempted to eat bits of it but by the end, wouldn't put a single thing in her mouth. I just gave up in the end as she would be starving so I'd just spoon feed her some Greek yoghurt for dessert. I have always offered her finger foods from when she was 6 months old, she only started refusing it completely after she was a year old.
She's very good all other ways, brilliant sleeper, understands and follows instructions, well behaved (when she wants to be) etc. She's a good weight, born 25th percentile and now just under 50th for both weight and height.
I'm not overly worried but when I see other babies her age feeding themselves so well, I start to worry about her and blame myself (maybe I haven't offered her enough finger foods, maybe I should have BLW etc). She eats three good size meals a day, no snacks (although I do offer). She eats anything we eat but its got to be cut up or mashed a bit (which I'm assuming is normal at this age?). If its ready meals, its stage 3 so don't think its texture that she has problems with. Although she does tend to store food in her mouth for quite some time before swallowing. Could this be a sensory issue?
She's my first DC so not really sure what to expect, HV is pretty rubbish (she just said as least she's eating). I'd really appreciate it if anyone can advise, especially if you have experience of this and what your DC is like now.