How do you serve food? All at once or bit by bit??

[AliBaby]

DD is doing this at the moment too and thinking its hillarious. I think the only other ones that agree with her are the dogs!

I cant even give her a bowl as she would chuck that as well. I just put all the food on her high chair tray and my goodness its a mess but oh well. Mind you during the day I give non-messy foods.

The problem I am finding with Dd is that she jsut wants to shovle it all in her mouth at once and grabs big handfuls to put in her mouth and then half of it ends up in between her legs and all over the chair Hoping that soon changes.

Its a hard one though as I like the fact that BLS they feed themselves at the pace they want and teh amount they want but yeah I hate it when al this good food gets chucked overboard!

[MummyTummy]

The mess doesn't last forever!! The only time Jett chucks stuff overboard now is if he really doesn't like it, or he thinks the dog looks hungry sitting below his chair!!! We have a black labrador.....which are reknowned for always being hungry, but we seem to have the only one in existence that is fussy!!!

[Miss E]

We had a similar problem here I've recently started giving DS it all at once in a bowl (with a suction thing on the bottom so he can't throw that over the edge) so he can play with what's in there and pull out what he wants. I have found that a lot less gets thrown over the edge now. Like a few others have said I tend to find that when it is getting thrown over the edge it usually signals he's not interested anymore. I also try and ignore it when he does drop something over the edge, I find that if I don't react he doesn't seem to do it as much iykwim?

[kelebek]

I agree that it is a phase that will pass eventually

DS use to throw his food all the time but I couldn't give it to him all at once as he would eat his meat first and not eat anything else but if I gave vege's etc... he would eat some vege's and then meat.

I tend to take the ignore route but do agree that when they start throwing it it tends to mean DS doesn't want anymore even if he has only eaten 1 bite... sometimes he just isn't hungry

Goodluck and hope this phase passes quickly for you.