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November 8, 2007 at 9:53 am #45184

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Ok, so she now eats textured foods finally like toast and cream cheese and frozen vegetables and french toast and macaroni!!!!

she won’t pick up any of it herself except the frozen cooked veges….she will open her mouth for me to put the food in though which I guess is good.

At what age should she be picking food up off her tray and eating it herself????

the only items she will pick up by herself are cheerios, puffs, and frozen veges.

Any ideas????????

November 8, 2007 at 11:03 am #45185

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She’s at the age now where most kids like to experiment with self feeding. Some kids don’t pick this up until later though if they’ve had feeding issues. My only thought is that could there be sensory reasons for her not wanting to pick up the food- maybe she’s avoiding the wet, sticky foods. One thing our feeding therapist had us try was to put tiny little forks into pieces of food and let her try self feeding that way while at the same time we had therapy for her sensory issues. We did a LOT of food play, praising her for touching the food even if she didn’t eat it, and OT at the same time.

November 8, 2007 at 2:18 pm #45195

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I have no help at all. Cooper is already self feeding (peaches, pears, green beans, peas and puffs so far). He doesn’t always get it in his mouth, but he does try. I usually will put a few on his tray (3-4 pieces) at a time so he doesn’t get overwhelmed… Are you putting lots of stuff at once? I read somewhere that they will get confused if there is too much on the tray.
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