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Baby can’t eat fruit/veg skins

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Berangere · 15/07/2023 18:36

DS has just turned one and still struggles with fruit and veg skins. He loves fruit, especially grapes, apples, satsumas and nectarines - but chews and chews then spits the skin out. He can’t seem to works out what to do with the skins, I keep giving them to him daily to help him practice - will he just eventually get it?
He is the same to a degree with beans and pulses particularly baked beans and kidney beans, he just spits them out straight away. Do I need to do anything differently?

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LittlegoldPhish · 15/07/2023 18:38

He will eventually get it, help him out by cutting up satsuma slices into bite sizes and removing skin from apples and such. One day when he's 2 or 3 he'll just be chew8ng through them like it's nothing.

DinnaeFashYersel · 15/07/2023 18:40

Don't worry about. He will either get the hang of it or maybe just doesn't like skins.

24HoursFromTulseHill · 15/07/2023 21:03

My 15 month old used to hate eating the skin on his apples slices so I'd peel all of them before serving. Then he helped himself to a whole apple from the fruit bowl and happily scoffed away at it, skin and all. He still struggles with cucumber skin so I cut that off and give it to him separately to chew on.

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