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Lazy baby?!

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LeggyBlondeNE · 16/02/2011 20:28

So everyone knows about bottle preference, when they realise it's easier from a bottle than a breast and only want a bottle.

This is kind of similar...

I had been loading the spoon and holding it out; baby would then grab it and shove it in. After a week of this, I fed her myself one day because she was insufficiently wrapped up in bibs and I didn't want to ruin her dress. Since then she's had very little interest in feeding herself. I load the spoon, hold it out and she opens her mouth wide but makes no attempt to hold the spoon herself.

Can I really have created a 'feeding preference' in one day?!

Anyone else had this? Will she go back to grabbing the spoon herself eventually? I've always had problems recognising internal hunger/fullness signals myself and really wanted to let her feed herself as much as possible to ecourage her self-regulation.

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MoonUnitAlpha · 16/02/2011 20:59

Maybe it would be better to drop the spoon entirely for a while? Let her use her fingers.

LeggyBlondeNE · 17/02/2011 09:17

Maybe - I do give her finger food at lunch - just bits of my bread or vegetables, and she'll suck on them a bit. But she's really enjoyed the mush which of course she takes in more. I might try making the mush thicker and see if she can eat it with her hands.

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