1 year old refusing to feed from spoon!!

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My little daughter is just over a year old and has suddenly started to refuse her lunchtime feed. She has been absolutely great at eating solids up until now. I really don't know what to do. She is teething at the mo but this is her fourth tooth and I am getting stressed as she's slim to start with. She eats her meal at tea time but only I think because she's hungry. I started in the beginning to offer other food if she wouldn't take her lunch but I've stopped this now as I could go on forever offering. Please help, what can I do?

Will she eat finger foods?

Are you feeding her with the spoon? Maybe she wants to have a go at doing it herself. Or if she's happier with finger foods, then give her finger foods and don't worry about giving her food with a spoon.

Try and make it fun, not a stressed episode. Eat with her if you dont already. They dont usually starve themselves and most things like this are a phase that will pass as long as you remain consistent with what you do.

She eats finger foods. Just wanted to make sure she was eating enough and not just a sandwich for her lunch. She is getting very angry I know that when I go to put the spoon in her mouth. She screams and goes red in the face.

There's nothing wrong with a sandwich for lunch, particularly if she'll eat it when she'd refuse something else. You could always add a salad or some carrot sticks to the sandwich if you wanted to make it more filling, but really a sandwich is absolutely fine (says she whose 4 year old will only eat chicken sandwiches for lunch ... )

finger foods? lots of toast with things on it, lots of veg cut into strips and steamed, peas are good.
I used to give dd a bowl of thick cool porridge with raisins in the mornings and shed eat that using her figures. Messy but fun.

Thank you for advice everyone. I really do think looking at her that she would rather feed herself. Am giving her grapes at the mo and she loves picking them up herself and eating them. How on earth do I start to let her use the spoon????

very carefully. he he he

Seriously - just let her have the spoon and guide her. She wont willingly dig the spoon in and flick food around the room (unless you laugh at it the first time and she then thinks its funny - big mistake that one...... )

just put the spoon in the bowl and let her get on with it Shell prob not start using the spoon till shes about 18 mnths or so (well dd didnt anyway) as hands aare so much easier. Believe me dd can eat yogurt with her hands . Youll ahve lots of mess to clean up but sure might as well get used to it while they are young.

Two spoons can be useful - one for her and one for you. You can load a spoon and give it to her to feed herself with while you load the second spoon, or you give her one of the spoons to use herself, while you shovel more food in with the second one when she gives you the chance to!

My 14 mo won't eat any lumps from a spoon. She eats sandwiches and other finger food or pureed food. She would like to live on peaches, bread and cheese.