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Developmental Differences Affecting Feeding Skills In Children
The reason the baby is not attempting to eat much food that you prepared for him is because the toddlers is not use to the food that you are making for them. The child is more use to formula and baby food from the jar. One way to handle this problem and also help the mother is by asking the parent if the child has any medical problem with swallowing. The second way to handle this problem and also help the mother is to ask why. The question I will ask the mother is that why are you still feeding your child with a bottle and not a sippy cup. Then I will ask her if the children have any developmental disabilities that affect his feeding skills such as swallowing or chewing different kinds of food. If the child keeps getting a cold the child

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