Ha. terrific stuff. Took us ages to work out why the boy would create holy hell at dinner time and of course it turned out he wanted to be involved and eating too. Eating out became a lot easier after we worked that one out.
At just under 10 months he's yet to get any teeth through but has been on 'solid' food for the last 4 months or so, in fact he eats a more varied and better diet than we do as his mother cooks up vast batches of various meals once every 6 weeks or so, pots them up individually then freezes them. Favorite at the moment is definitely tuna pasta thing..but we've yet to find anything he won't eat. I was also very impressed with the variety of the menu at his nursery after we'd signed off to say he could have anything going.
Touch wood he's on the mend and actually slept through last night which is a rare occurrence. Saturday was particularly challenging with a a dodgy stomach and nappy changes averaging every 20 to 30 mins.
While not wanting to burst your bubble.....
I gather that pickiness starts later. My nephews both started off eating anything, and then developed fads when they hit toddler stage.
I think there's a theory that this is a form of protection against poisoning. When still in arms, they can trust anything a parent presents to them as good to eat. Once they develop the capability to potentially forage for themselves, the risk of picking something bad increases, so they get more sensitive to bitterness and so on. For a similar reason, they sometimes become shyer with strangers at the same time, when before they'd go to anyone.
Plus it's all part of the developing power struggle between parent and a child who is just starting to realise that they exist as an individual, and wants to exercise their own free will. Choosing not to eat that delicious wholesome dinner (which you ate happily enough last week, didn't you?) in the face of pleading and cajoling is a relatively harmless way to do battle, and they'll always eat enough to live, one way or another....
Andrew, I love the picture where she looks like a sort of stumpy Dalek on the table....
