Hi, first time Mum to a beautiful 19 month old, hope you can help! I have two questions and would appreciate any advice, thanks.

1) How can I teach/stop my little one from continuously throwing food off her plate? She is clever and understands everything that she is told and always happily follows but with this she can't resist but throw food everywhere if she feels like it or doesn't want it. It's such a waste. Have offered different foods aswell as long as she eats.
When offered more of the same food she will sometimes eat it and sometimes while I'm cleaning up after she will pick food off the floor and eat it too!
I've tried to teach her to put the food aside which sometimes she does, but more often not. I hope this is just a phase...

2) Does anybody know if there is a 'magic' method to overcome teething pains with molars and premolars? Seems they're the nasty teeth.
Little one often screams in her bed during sleeps and all night long in pain (and this wakes me each time), but she's still face down asleep or semi awake. Have given panadol and bonjela before bed, then a dummy to suck on and lots of cuddles which helps temporarily, but she seems in a lot of unbearable pain and I'm helpless I can't do much. Sometimes during the day she's quite ratty and restless and with runny poos lately. I'm pretty sure it's all related to teething, not yet the 'terrible two' tantrums etc, but I'm not entirely sure. Any advice would help.

hi there - for teething pains i would suggest amber teething necklaces. my DD had lots of trouble with teeth also and we tried everything! Someone told me about the necklaces and i was a bit skeptical, but willing to try anything at that stage, and after 1 day of wearing it she was fine, I was so amazed!!

as for the food, honestly if it was me and my kid was constantly throwing food and you believe she understands you dont like it..pack up the food and put it away when she does it.

dont give it back and dont offer something else in place - if shes hungry she will eat and throwing the food about is normally a boredom/attention seeking behaviour!!

gotta love em kiddies, my daughter use to feed the dog to make me think she had eaten her dinner

DS throws food too (we have a dog that sits under the highchair loving it!!), it is usually when he is full though so I try to make sure he hasn't had too many snacks before meals. Once he starts throwing, I take his plate away and that's it. They soon get the picture!
The 1st molars weren't great, DS got them when he was 14 months. We just used Pamol at night during that time. As for being ratty during the day, hard to know, seems normal to me ha ha!