Toddler holding food in her mouth!!!

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My 21m old has begun to hold food in her mouth and this can go on for 40 minutes a bite! I’m getting really frustrated and really angry by this. She never used to do this and was a better eater than my son (who is 3). However, tables have turned soo much and she is really not eating anything. I have tried:

• picky plates
• offering a range of foods
• given her the options to choose what she wants to eat and leave foods.

I mean I could throw a packet of crisps and biscuits and she will wolf this down! But every meal is becoming a chore and a battle! Literally do not have the energy for this as I work full time and we both usually end up in tears.

Just to add she isn’t poorly nor is she getting something! She is healthy and sassy as can be!

Any help from anyone would be much appreciated.

hey, my son has started holding food in his mouth. He is generally an awesome eater but recently it has become challenging. I’m a single mum and it took some time to get into a swing of cooking again.
I wondered if you have some insight to why your daughter was holding food in her mouth as it was several months ago? Did it become clearer ?

Sorry messaged late! Didn't realise that my mums net was never set up to send me notifications!

So she was just going through a phase and it lasted for a week. I just took her food away from her and let her go hungry a couple of times (not refuse food but pretend and then give it later) and it worked! She began to eat quicker. 😂 now she is absolutely fine - although she will try and do anything to not sit and eat at the table, but would rather play and eat.

We went through this with Ds who is now 10.

What solved it? Ignoring it.

We realised the more we made a 'thing' of it, so would he. We just ignored it, said fine spit it out then and gave it no more response than that. It soon stopped when he realised it wasnt working anymore.