Self feeding problem?

Does she go to nursery? Does she self feed there? I would suggest making sure you all eat at the same time and just eat your food and leave her to it, if she wants to eat she will pick it up and put something in her mouth. And if she doesn't, she doesn't. Feed her and say ok now you do it! And encourage it but don't force it and just let her leave if she's not interested.. I'd also suggest lunching with kids her age or older. Monkey see monkey do

Mine was very insistent on me being the one to feed her for AGES. For the most part I just went with it because she needed the calories. I knew she was capable just didn't want to! We had more progress when we started doing things like giving her a choice of spoon, I would load the spoon and ask her to feed herself from there, and then I'd take a turn feeding her, etc and we built it up from there. But honestly she's only really got enthusiastic about and good at feeding herself since Christmas so about 22 months 😂 we didn't do baby led weaning for medical reasons and I see the ones who did are much better at feeding themselves, but to me it's not a big deal, her fine motor has always been great in every other aspect. For picking up and eating, maybe see if you can find a dip she likes e.g hummous/cream cheese, and show her how she can dip and feed herself, that might get some enthusiasm! Most of all, don't worry. She'll get there, it doesn't matter if it takes a bit longer. Mine even uses a fork now!

My 4.5 year old still refuses to feed himself and has major issues with food textures and gets super upset if he gets dirty 🙄 At 15 months I wouldn't worry tbh, she'll start when she's ready - as the previous posters said the best thing you can do is try and encourage her and also make meal times as enjoyable as possible, the worst thing you can do is stress and then it becomes a battle ground x

Check out solid starts website/instagram, they help loads in comments too Personally i wouldn’t worry about it too much as its 15 months. (Unless u really need her to feed herself and be more independent coz u go other kids?) my 3 yo was advanced with self eating and cleaning compared to nursery kids coz i did BLW but bad habits with grandma at weekends and eating in fromt of TV and half the time i am not feeding him at age 3.5. He also eats things he likes very easily by himself but its been continuous back n forth thru the years and even daily changes That said do you or can you do the following to help independent eating at the table: Lay out table for whole family to eat together at consistent times with consistent people and no body gets up from table Make meal times fun happy n chatty Make a point of saying well done n encouraging when anyone at table eats with their own hands/cutlery Use music and singing and speakers rather than toys as then their hands are free

I also bring mine to the table thats laid and ready for eating from, but attratct them to the table with food they really like 1st So start with some cheese maybe? And make a show of thats all the cheese there is, its finished and put a wrapper in the bin for them to see theres no more of their fave food left And bring them to the table really hungry, i think solid starts says 1-1.5 hours before meal, no snacks or milk

@Heidi she doesn't go yet, we are planning to put her in August so she will be 19 months then. And yes I have heard that in nursery because they see other kids do it, they start doing it as well, so hopefully she will too

Thank you ladies, all amazing advices!! We definitely need to try to eat together, but it's difficult due to me and my husband working during the week, so she is with her nanny and she doesn't eat food at our house (that's her own choice). Definitely some room to improve but I guess I'm just stressing too much! It's because we went to a nursery viewing last week and all kids her age were feeding themselves and I though she must be a bit behind, but I definitely won't force her xx thank you again for all encouragement and advices!