Baby screams while waiting her turn

Now that w are all enjoying solids, my "more needy" one goes crazy while her sister is getting fed, i am feeding them both at the same time and the time while her sister is getting her spoonful, all of 10 secs, she starts screaching away, is there anyway to stop this behavior, i feel that by feeding her she just thinks that this is the best way to get food, and reinforces her screeching.

 

How about if you put something on her tray to keep her hands busy? Like a sippy cup of water or a toy?

 

I was going to say distraction too. I guess they don't eat Cheerios or anything like that yet? I used to put a few on the tray to distract them, even when they were not very good at picking them up or getting them in their mouths, it distracted them. A sippy cup of water or even just another spoon that they can play with will sometimes work.

 

I gave mine spoons to hold from the start--not expecting them to feed themselves or anything like that--but for something for them to do while eating, and I do think they learned to self feed earlier than other babies as around 9 months they started dipping the spoon they were holding into the food while I was feeding them.

 

I can try that, I already try speaking to her and making noises to distract her, but she has her eye on the bowl and sees that it's not coming her way, and she is NOT happy. As soon as the meal is over, and the food is put away, she will play in her chair, but when she sees the food, she wants it in her mouth, it could just be she has to adjust to a new way of feeding, while nursing, she is getting a constant flow, as opposed to food, which she has to wait for.

In general, she just is the more temperamental one, and noisy one etc, so i just feel it's another one of her things.

 

You could also try a mesh feeder, so that she'll be getting food while waiting on a spoonful from you.

 

A spoon or a rattle to hold.

 

I had the same problem until I put them a baby Einstein DVD and feed them at the same time. It works like magic!

 

Ethan is totally like that too. I'm lucky in that Eleanor can mostly feed herself now so screaming time is kept to a minimum. Although he will still scream when I feed her even if he's just finished his whole bowl of food and is full up. He just doesn't like other people eating when he's not.
Distraction, in the form of something to hold, sometimes works and otherwise I just ignore it. I do explain what I'm doing to him ("I just need to help Eleanor with her food, then I will do yours." "You've had your turn, I'm feeding Eleanor now.") I know he can't understand me at this point but I figure one day he'll either be able to understand or just grow out of the habit. I did wonder, like you said, if I was reinforcing the screeching but, honestly, I couldn't see a way around it (if I didn't feed him because he screamed while I was feeding Eleanor then he would just scream more until we were at a point of all-out uncontrolable crying, which achieves nothing) so I decided not to worry about it.