https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 30 May 2026 04:30:05 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-blows-raspberries-while-eating#post-2757806 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 20:30:22 +0000 ShootingStar 2757806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PinkElephant: My almost 11 month old has started picking up food just to drop it on the floor. Makes me insane, lol. I don't want her to be hungry either, so we take it away for a couple minutes and then try to give it back or feed her (instead of self feeding). It's about 50/50 whether she'll keep either or dropping things on the floor. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-blows-raspberries-while-eating#post-2757487 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:02:43 +0000 littlejoy 2757487@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PinkElephant: She's also so young, but I think 3rd babies probably pick cues up sooner? I would expect that call and response type behavior from a 15+ month old. I think you have a baby genius on your hands! :) </p> <p>Sometimes when LO is doing something that bothers me (but isn't unsafe), I'll just acknowledge her and not give it more attention, "Yeah, I see that you are blowing bubbles in your water.", and then I quickly move onto a different topic of conversation. She feels seen, but also knows it doesn't bother me at all (because my kid likes to do things when she knows it bothers me). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-blows-raspberries-while-eating#post-2757330 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:57:12 +0000 PinkElephant 2757330@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: I just read your original post more carefully and am giggling madly imagining you in front of a high chair with one hand on a DustBuster.</p> <p>@littlejoy: I think you're right on both the ignoring and making mealtime over. I tried to make mealtime over yesterday, but realized then I'd be the one up at 3 AM with a hungry kiddo, and joke would be back on me! So I relented.....</p> <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I feel your/DH's pain with the food in the eyes. One of my big girls used to always play with bath products, then rub her eyes with handfuls of suds in the shower, then....(wait for it.....) scream and cry about soap in her eyes. We'd have to tell her "Yes. When you touch your face with your hands full of shower gel, soap gets in your eyes." </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-blows-raspberries-while-eating#post-2757153 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:37:10 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2757153@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: our little guy loves the cordless vacuum. We would use it around his chair and then close enough to his legs to feel the sunction. He is all giggles anytime we use it.</p> <p>When LO started throwing things at meal time we just took them away. For a little while we would just transfer his food directly on his high chair. If he threw his actual food it signaled to us mealtime was over. </p> <p>DH gets flustered with LO constantly rubbing his eyes and hair after handling his food. He pushes his hands down and is constantly wiping them off. I have started repeating we put food in our mouths when he does this. Eventually I think he will stop. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-blows-raspberries-while-eating#post-2757147 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:27:31 +0000 littlejoy 2757147@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Stern reactions and laughter will get the same response: "Oh, they really think this thing I'm doing is awesome!!!" :) </p> <p>I think you just have to ignore it. LO threw 99% of her food on the floor at 12-15 months, and it drove me INSANE!!! One day I decided to give her a warning, "Food is for eating. If you throw it again, meal time will be over." - she threw her food, I took it away, and she NEVER did it again. It was like the craziest, most-effective (maybe the only) parenting win I've ever had. </p> <p>Then she started throwing her fork at our faces, and she didn't have a fork for a few weeks. KIDS, man!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-blows-raspberries-while-eating#post-2757009 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:33:33 +0000 agold 2757009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just figure that these stages pass as quickly as they come up. My girl is now 10.5 months and she doesn't do the blowing raspberries while eating often anymore. I can't think of the last time she did it. And that now makes me sad! So hopefully your LO will just pass though this soon enough. Or else I like the vacuum idea!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-blows-raspberries-while-eating#post-2757008 Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:05:42 +0000 gingerbebe 2757008@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PinkElephant: I used the handheld vac when DS was under a year old, so its not even a verbal threat he understood. He just knew whenever he did whatever bugged me, the vacuum came out and came on. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-blows-raspberries-while-eating#post-2756968 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:29:53 +0000 PinkElephant 2756968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: LOLOL! I don't think DD3 is old enough to reason this way, but I'll have to keep it in mind if we are still having this problem when she's capable of understanding my threats (OMG I hope we're not.....). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-blows-raspberries-while-eating#post-2756950 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:37:09 +0000 DesertDreams88 2756950@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: literally laughing out loud so much over here </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-blows-raspberries-while-eating#post-2756923 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 18:13:40 +0000 gingerbebe 2756923@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For some reason, I can't remember what it was, but DS1 had some terrible thing he did during meals at that same age that was driving me batty. Um, maybe not a great solution, but I had to resort to scaring him, basically. </p> <p>He was really afraid of our cordless vacuum for some reason and would crawl away screaming like greased lightning whenever I used it (which was often because he threw Cheerios or crumbs everywhere), so whenever he did the weird thing at meals, I would sternly say "don't do that or Mommy is going to get the vacuum." When he repeated the action, I would get up and get the vacuum and set it next to me. Then if he did it a third time, I would turn the vacuum on for a few seconds while he thrashed in the high chair and flipped out. If he did it again, I would turn the vacuum back on. He got the correlation pretty quickly - like within a day or two. After that, it was enough to go get the vacuum and set it next to me and he would stop it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-blows-raspberries-while-eating#post-2756918 Mon, 10 Jul 2017 18:03:16 +0000 PinkElephant 2756918@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD3 (9m) has developed the habit of blowing raspberries while she is eating (mostly purees). I know its a petty thing, but I am SO ANNOYED by this. Basically I think her sisters laughed at her once, and now she is just super pleased with herself whenever she does this. I've tried speaking to her sternly with a grumpy face (she looks at me very seriously, then continues with her game), I've tried ignoring it, and just now I've stopped feeding her and have got my back to her. She's continuing to do it, and isn't giving up. :(</p> <p>Any tips on how to stop this before it really becomes a habit? </p> <p>She's also really into chucking whatever dishes/spoons/jars she can get ahold of - she shattered a pyrex baby food container the other day...such a different feeding experience than I had with my other kids! </p>