DD stuffing her face............ 19 1/2 months

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Just as the thread says. She stuffs everything into her mouth and sometimes chokes herself.

When I give her a sandwich, I make 2 slices put them together, cut the crusts off and then cut them into squares. Not bitesize pieces and I'm sure she should be biting them. Instead she shoves (forces) the whole square into her mouth.

I'm not worried about how she looks or any thing, just worried about her choking.

I give her the C&G biscuits (from 6 months) and have to give them to her in pieces because she will gag herself on it.

Is there anything I could try, I've tried helping and telling her bite but she gets very cross and even upset.

It would be nice to give her something and not have to worry every mouthful.

What do you think and has any one else out there had the same.

there could be a chance this is just a faze shes going through try cutting things up into bite size pieces for now and slowly increase the size of the pieces slowly and see how she reacts because she might still be getting used to the whole bite and chew of eating hopes this helps

dd2 shoves everything in her mouth at one go. i tell her to slow down and sometimes even feed her myself as she also gags and chokes. i'm, just sure she loves my home cooking.

my dd 21 1/2 months was doing this for ages. Strangely enough though she always took a bite from a biscuit, maybe because it was not plyable to stuff into her mouth. Anything else ie, tiny pancake, full chip, 1/4 slice of bread was rammed into her mouth and she could barely breath and was gagging. I had to say "open" and take half of it out.

She has improved now but still tends to do it. I still break things up for her though because when she is hungry she will stuff the whole thing into her mouth.

Thank you all so much and I'm glad she'snot the only one.

misdee - what a brill way to look at it. I should always try and see the positive

Thanks all, I will see how she goes.