Paper chewing in 10 month old

[weltschmerz]

My DD will always head for paper or card to chew, regardless of what else is in front of her - if there's a plastic teething ring on her lap and a book somewhere else, she'll move towards the book and chomp on it.

It's getting very wearing pulling bits of paper and card out of her hands and trying (unsuccessfully) to get her to chomp on plastic. She'll happily turn the pages of a book, then pick it up and chomp on the cover when she's done.

Is this any way normal? I've seen cats do this but not babies before!

Oh yes my DS3 (8months) loves paper and cardboard. He is at his happiest ripping the argos catalogue to shreds and then eating the remains. Just a phase I am sure!

Definitely normal. My 14 m.o. does it a lot less now though.

You could try a treasure basket with different chewable - google 'heuristic play' for ideas what to put in it. Babies this age love to feel different materials with their mouths - plastic is pretty dull, and all plastic toys tend to taste the same.

normal, but be aware...my friends little boy (toddler age) choked on a bit of not chewed enough paper which lodged in his throat. He was fine but scary at teh time for my friend.

I think its pretty normal, my DS went through the same phase when he was that age. He used to get through a couple of magazines a day and he ate two buggy books. We never really bothered to stop him and it doesn't seem to have done him any harm - obviously as thehairybabysmum says there could be a risk of choking but my DS never did and he really munched through loads of paper. His preference was The Economist!!! I'm hoping you are what you eat.