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Ok, I have a 16 mo dcg. She used to eat really, really good. Now she has all the sudden become very picky. Not sure if that is even the word. I'm left a little baffled about her behavior. Anyhow, her mom always packs one baby cereal bar, a yogurt cup and two jars of baby food and some other things. She eats solids, and I try to still incorporate the jar food here and there because she is sending it, so I'm assuming that she's still giving some to her here and there and wants to still do that. So anyhow, she is beginning to spit her food out. Even stuff she likes and then cries when I try to give it to her. If I set it in front of her, she just looks at it and cries. IF however, it is buttered toast, her cereal bar, or yogurt cup, it is devoured immediately.
I made a plate of eggs, buttered toast and sliced grapes for breakfast. No matter how hard I tried, she refused to eat the eggs. I KNEW if I could just get her to "taste" it, she would eat it. Same with the grapes. She would spit it out and cry the moment I put it to her lips/tried to sneak it in. I KNOW she had to have tasted them when I did this, but she would still spit it out. Its like her brain is saying, "You tasted it and even though it tastes good, DONT EAT IT".
So then my next try was to take the buttered toast (I held it back until I could get her to eat some of her eggs and grapes - which didn't work), and put some egg in it and pinch it to make mini egg bites. She ate this. So I did it over and over until Viola! she was grabbing handfuls of the eggs without the bread "camouflage" and shoveling it in. Same with the grapes. She knows what grapes are, she's ate them before and loved them. At this meal she refuses to eat them and then suddenly crams them in her mouth. I am baffled! Why, even after tasting it, did she spit it out at first, and then all the sudden devour it? :confused:
The next meal, she did this with her fruit jar. Refuse, refuse, refuse and cry. So I stuck my finger in it and pretended to eat it myself. Still no go. So I stuck her finger in it and after several attempts of this, she finally put her finger in her mouth. Guess what? Devoured in 30 secs. :confused:
Why is she doing this? It's like she thinks I am trying to sabotage her food, and then after she tastes it, spits it out, tastes it, spits it out, and so on - finally she thinks, "Ok, I guess she's not trying to trick me with nasty food", and then eats it.
I guess in a nutshell: I can understand why she would spit something out and make a "nasty food" face if she didn't like it all together, BUT why would she do this, and then after 20/30 minutes of this, all the sudden, LOVE it and devour it?
What is going on?
I made a plate of eggs, buttered toast and sliced grapes for breakfast. No matter how hard I tried, she refused to eat the eggs. I KNEW if I could just get her to "taste" it, she would eat it. Same with the grapes. She would spit it out and cry the moment I put it to her lips/tried to sneak it in. I KNOW she had to have tasted them when I did this, but she would still spit it out. Its like her brain is saying, "You tasted it and even though it tastes good, DONT EAT IT".
So then my next try was to take the buttered toast (I held it back until I could get her to eat some of her eggs and grapes - which didn't work), and put some egg in it and pinch it to make mini egg bites. She ate this. So I did it over and over until Viola! she was grabbing handfuls of the eggs without the bread "camouflage" and shoveling it in. Same with the grapes. She knows what grapes are, she's ate them before and loved them. At this meal she refuses to eat them and then suddenly crams them in her mouth. I am baffled! Why, even after tasting it, did she spit it out at first, and then all the sudden devour it? :confused:
The next meal, she did this with her fruit jar. Refuse, refuse, refuse and cry. So I stuck my finger in it and pretended to eat it myself. Still no go. So I stuck her finger in it and after several attempts of this, she finally put her finger in her mouth. Guess what? Devoured in 30 secs. :confused:
Why is she doing this? It's like she thinks I am trying to sabotage her food, and then after she tastes it, spits it out, tastes it, spits it out, and so on - finally she thinks, "Ok, I guess she's not trying to trick me with nasty food", and then eats it.
I guess in a nutshell: I can understand why she would spit something out and make a "nasty food" face if she didn't like it all together, BUT why would she do this, and then after 20/30 minutes of this, all the sudden, LOVE it and devour it?
What is going on?
it might be a hard transition for them to accept new things. Just keep putting a variety of finger foods on her tray and letting her test for herself.
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