weaning - 11 months

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My dd loves to feed herself finger foods but has started throwing her dinner i=on the floor and laughing, i have tried shouting NO, tried ignoring and just putting food in bin and giving her more but nothing stops her. She is still hungry and then points for more dinner. What do I do?

Let her eat it on th floor? Get one of those washable mats that go under highchairs, put her finger food in a bowl andlet hergo for it.

I have got one of those mats, could try that thanks.. Is it naughtiness or just experimenting with food. It makes me mad.

I'm afraid this is a pretty normal stage IMO and is just experimental, 11m is really too little to be naughty.

Best bet is to ignore as shes probably looking for a reaction. If she's throwing plates, then don't give her one, feed her straight off the high chair tray.

Leave thrown food on the floor to clean up after the meal is over (so that doesn't become a game).

Don't put all her dinner in front of her at once, so you have some in reserve.

If she's throwing it because she doesn't want / like it, indicate a place on her tray where she should put food she doesn't want for you to clear away. Repetitive "no if you don't want it, put it here" might get through after a while.

It can help if you eat together so you are modelling good behaviour, equally when you are preoccupied with your own food you are less likely to react to what she is doing so she may well stop it..

Babies are too yoing to be naughty. She probably thinks its all a great game. Meanwhile, you're getting more and more annoyed at the waste of food and time!

My dd was fascintated with dropping things off her highchair at 10-11 months. She did grow out of it though.

Why don't you try and picnic in the garden (assuming you've got one) now that the weather's nice? Just try anything to take the tension out of the situation for you until she gets obver her dropping phase.

If I put food in her mouth she eats it so she does like it and is hungry, she eats a little bit, then i put her more and she throws it, in the end there is more on the floor than in her mouth, then she leans over and points at it (has been known to laugh and clap as it flies about..aaah)