So our eating issues have been well documented, but the gist is that we are working on encouraging our 8 mo to eat more solids. She is incredibly unmotivated by and not excited about food. I am finding more things that she will eat, slowly, but one of our problems seems to be she seems to sort of hate her high chair.

I feel like she is just a busy kid. She has always been super incredibly active and now that she started crawling and standing she is just on the move all. the. time. When I try to feed her in her high chair she just leaaaans over the sides/tries to turn around and wants to look at and reach for anything that isn't me giving her food (we do both purees and BLW). Even stuff like puffs and melts which are her favorite go unnoticed if I try to put them on her tray or hand them to her. I can usually get a few bites into her but it is a lot of calling to her trying to get myself into her line of vision to focus on eating then she's over it looking around again.

So I feed her on the floor a lot. Because if she can move around she'll eat more. But she still doesn't focus on it. She'll reach for a melt if I hand it to her but then she is off crawling somewhere and I have to follow her around and grab her to sit her down to offer another. So feeding her a handful of melts takes a long time because every time I sit her down she springs right back up to go exploring lol.

I feel like this is maybe common for her age. Crawling is exciting! But I was just curious what other people do at this age. And I sort of wonder if I'm starting bad habits by feeding her anywhere she will eat rather than making her sit in her high chair to eat. I just feel like since she will consume so much more on the floor than in the high chair we should roll with that for now until she actually starts caring about food.