Our LO has had this issue for about nine months. I posted on it awhile back and folks wrote in...as I recall, most said it was a phase. Well, if it is, this has been a mighty long phase. We can't leave any kind of paper around him, not for a second. He will eat (and swallow) any kind of paper, board book, envelope, sticker, receipt, you name it. Our ped at the time said it was probably because he needed to eat more solid food and to "hold back" on breastfeeding...I ignored that advice, but did up his iron-rich foods and began using a small cast-iron cooking pan in case this had anything to do with pica (he does have low iron). His drive to eat paper does not change at all based on anything except proximity...if it's not around, of course he can't eat it. It does not change before or after meals. Other moms have told me their kid eats paper, but I promise our LO's compulsion is way, way stronger than anything I've seen with other babies. Any ideas? I really miss being able to read to him. He will rip the board book right out of my hands and would happily gnaw away for 20 minutes (which is hard, because he does almost nothing without my being right next to him, so I am tempted to just let him...but then I find book bits in his poop). TIA for anyone's thoughts.
Edited by McGucks - 3/26/11 at 6:29pm
