spitting food

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need help with this one..

18 month old started since couple of weeks ago spitting food out in bib if doesn't like it/want it...whatever

but getting worse and worse by the day

is this normal??..today spat out for first time his snack when out and about and it was partially digested and ended up all over himself!!!

what can i do to try to convince ihm to swallow

not a great chewer but would taste somthing in the oast and if didn't like it he wouldn't continue partially eating it and then spitting it out repeatedly like now!!!

All of my kids have done this - I am afraid I am a bit of a tough mummy on this one because they very quickly think its a game. I have always said no and taken the rest away saying no, no more in a very calm voice. Once they calm down I offer it again and feed them saying "eat it nicely" with smiles and encouragement if they spit it out again then I repeat. They soon get the message.

Its very probably just a phase - you should deal with it in whatever way you think is appropriate - you know your son best. is he deffo hungry? Is there a particular taste he has aquired an aversion to or is he just mucking about?

yes its juist a phase

not much you can do other than take away the food... and try again later

as they get a bot older they can very soon learn that if they do it meal time finishes and they get down and wiat until next meal, but i wouldnt do that with an 18 month old!

thanks loads!!! - thought 18 months was a bit too earl yto take away food but how try and solve this problem best way possible??

hmmm

I take it away for a couple of minutes at most. Then re-offer, if he keeps doing it I take it away and get him down. Distract him with a game or something and once I think he's forgotten, try again.

I don't take it away completely until next meal time.