Fussy eater and spitting
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Topic: Fussy eater and spitting
Posted By: kiwikid
Subject: Fussy eater and spitting
Date Posted: 19 March 2010 at 7:36am
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DS (19mths) is driving me blimmen nuts, he is so fricken fussy with his evening meal and its really starting to get to me. His latest 'trick' is spitting out the food he finds offensive. On a rational level I know I shouldnt be taking it so personally but it feels so insulting and disgusting I'm struggling to keep myself from getting really cross with him. I'm so sick of spending time cooking nice food for him for him to turn his nose up at or at worst spit it out.
Any suggestions on how I should deal with the spitting? There is only so many times you can say 'its not nice to spit your food, spitting is yucky'. Should I take the food away immediately or give him chances first? I guess I'm just feeling a bit blah about it all today, at the end of the day I'm going to keep making him nice, healthy meals and accept that some day's he'll eat the lot and other days he's going to be a fuss pot and one day he might actually consume a green vegetable! ------------- 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 19 March 2010 at 7:58am
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Personally thats something I'd ignore, as hard as that might be. All of Daniels annoying eating habits when I've just ignored them they have gone away quicker than if I've made a big deal about them. The only one I haven't done this with is throwing food, he gets an immediate growly voice which he hates and usually makes him cry cause he knows he has done wrong lol... but I think this works cause I don't make a big deal about much.
With all meal times Daniel gets given his food and he has to sit there with it for approx 20mins, if after that hes actually still eating he can stay for a bit longer. If hes not touching it and just being an idiot I take it away. More often than not hes eating. He will tell us now if hes "all done". I basically ignore him while hes eating so he knows hes not getting mummys attention so its better to eat cause he knows hes not getting down for a while. As for the green vege, the only one that gets consumed in this house is peas 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 19 March 2010 at 2:56pm
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i would be inclined to think that it is his way of saying no more and take it off him. ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: kiwisj
Date Posted: 20 March 2010 at 12:04am
Me too. If Callum spits out his food I will give him one more chance but then I take the plate away and clear up. kiwikid, you only mentioned the evening meal time - does he generally eat well the rest of the day? Perhaps he's just not particularly hungry at that time of day? Often if C has a cooked lunch and then a big arvo tea he won't eat much at all at tea time. ------------- SJ Callum - Dec 2008 Daniel - Oct 2010 |
Bizzy wrote:Posted By: kiwikid
Date Posted: 20 March 2010 at 5:02am
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I'm not sure that the spitting means he's had enough, last night he had pasta sprials with bolognaise sauce - he was happy eating the spirals until one had a bit of mince on it, then he started spitting the food out, when I shook off the mince and put the pasta spirals down on his tray he ate loads more - as long as there was no mince on them.
It seems to be anything of a 'different' texture but then again it took him months to get used to regular pieces of chicken meat, now he gobbles it up. Such a process!!!! I guess its just the aversion to vegetables that worries me but as long as he'll eat the hidden stuff a few nights a week its not like he's going to be nuitrient deficient I'd hope. He is a good breakfast and lunch eater, mostly cos vegetables dont feature much at those meals. If I try and give him cucumber / tomato etc that all gets ignored or bitten and spitten. -------------
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Posted By: FionaO
Date Posted: 24 March 2010 at 3:53pm
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ooooooh snap - DS is just the same. Depends on his mood and I think if he gets a reaction from me, so I try and snack at the same time as he eats or busy myself a bit and just let him get on with it. Its so annoying but now I am ignoring it is happening less often. DS if you offered him any sort of pudding he had never seen before would try it, but offer a veg he hasn't seen before and he just knows. I have already taken to cooking veg in sauces and blending up sauce so he doesn't know its packed full of goodness - so he ate chicken curry and rice but the curry sauce was super charged with veg. Took him forever to like chicken too but now he loves it, my mum had to hide veg for years its not worth mega battles I think. I just offer if he tries I praise him and then ignore when he spits. Its tough though - hate the mess all the spitting makes. ------------- 
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