HELP! 16 month old not eating as much

[Visitor7]

I think it sounds like a great thing that he wants to eat food himself. Like Sherie suggested, start offering him a fork or spoon to eat with. This is the only way my DD eats. From around 11 months she started eating food on her own. It's a lot easier than having to sit there and feed her myself.

[mickyndan]

Let him feed himself I say... LOL - it means you don't have to do it (you can now share meal times rather than he eats and then you eat IYKWIM). It might get a bit messy but that's half the fun (for them... not us)!!! I am sure that if he is hungry he will eat -I have never known a toddler to starve. Good Luck xxoo