BLW: the droppings issue

[herbaceous]

Hello

BLW with my nearly 8mo is going swimmingly - he loves all food, it would seem, and is growing at an alarming rate. I was just wondering if it's par for the course for him to be eating a bit of something (pasta, carrot, etc) and then to drop it, pick up the next thing, nibble it, drop that, pick up the next, etc...

This 'droppings' issue means that the discarded, larger, part of the food in question often gets dropped down his bib, or on to the floor (usually on to the sports section of the Sunday paper). Do you just put these back on the tray? How may times can one piece of food be nibbled, dropped, and given back? Am I a disgusting sloven?

DD's food goes back on (and on) until it dosn't resemble a food group.

It makes me keep the floor clean in between meals, not that you can tell!

We just try and grab the food off the floor before the dogs get it...

Apparently there is a good reason for this, the saliva has enzymes in it which start breaking down the food, so when they go back to the pre-nibbled morsel it is easier to eat.

I second the comment about the dropping makes me keep the floor clean between sittings. That way I know if something is dropped it can go straight back on the table.
My dh says that our floor is probably cleaner than some restaurant tables

We got some shower curtains that we put down on the floor while he is eating, then we can clean them easily and anything that gets dropped on them gets put straight back on his tray again.

Another shower curtain fan here. It also means that I don't need to clean the kitchen floor as often...

I've been using newspaper, but it does have connotations of house-training a puppy, rather than feeding a beloved PFB.