Fussy Eaters Learn From Mom

Posting Date: 05/21/2004

While the study does not suggest any specific behaviors parents can model to make mealtime easier, Lumeng suggests mothers should trust their instincts and know that their baby might be more tied in to the parents? behavior during meals.

?Infants are really hard wired to want what you are eating. If part of the difficulty of the feeding is that mom?s eating BBQ chicken and the baby?s getting squash and rice, the answer is to let the baby try a bite of BBQ chicken. Some of these kids that mothers perceive as difficult eaters may just have a natural inclination to eat what they see their mother eat or handle or prepare,? Lumeng says.

In addition to Lumeng, study authors are Jacinta Sitto, Tiffany Cardinal and Susan Mcdonough all with the U-M Center for Human Growth and Development.

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