oh, please don't plug her nose (or hold her down to pull it out with your fingers), you are just setting the stage for food fights that will earn you much greater problems down the road. you can go uber-controlling and only give her tiny bites and no more until she swallows, but that's not much better. making yourself into the food police is a Very Bad Idea. as the other moms have suggested, approach it as a teething issue and help her get more comfortable with what are probably molars coming in. other than that, gently encouraging her to spit out food she doesn't want to swallow, and then ignoring it, are the best things you can do. yes, it will make you nut up. but you're the grown-up, you can handle it. i promise this is not a phase that will last long, and you have much bigger fish to fry.
khairete
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