Enjoy exploring the book’s sounds and actions, practising together the mouth muscle movements needed to master chewing, slurping and swallowing. By developing these oral motor skills, little ones will be able to coordinate their movement needed for speech as well as successful eating. Double win!
Practice, play and repeat new sounds and phrases to create an open and curious mealtime mindset whilst enjoying a fun shared experience together. Food should be fun, and these books offer a great framework to play with purpose, and develop a positive vocabulary around food!
Did you know that copying the slurping movements will help them purse their lips to swallow safely and use a straw? Encourage repetition of chomping and other key sounds from the book to build the mouth movement and coordination needed for successful confident mealtime adventures.
Mouth muscle weakness and coordination are the main causes of feeding difficulties and fussy eating. By breaking down the mouth muscle movements needed, and practising them with their Bibado pals, this will help overcome such challenges, whilst building a positive mealtime mindset.
‘Mmm…I’m hungry!’ is much more than just a story book. It’s part of an interactive weaning series of children's sound books developed with nutritionists and experts to develop the key mouth movements needed for successful eating.
Together, explore the sounds and actions needed to strengthen the oral muscles to chew, slurp and swallow. Learning through play in this way offers so much fun for all the family! Copying the slurping movements in the book will help them purse their lips to swallow safely and use a straw. Whilst munching practice, will support little ones transition to textured foods and help them position food properly in the back of the mouth to chew effectively.
By focussing on these fundamentals with the help of the much-loved Bibado pals, your little ones independence and confidence with self-feeding will grow. From working with our feeding experts, we know that mouth muscle weakness and coordination are the main causes of feeding difficulties such as fussy eating - and these books have been designed to prevent and overcome these obstacles.
“Supporting parents to encourage the chomping and slurping sounds for little ones to copy will build the movement and develop the coordination of their lips, teeth, tongue and cheeks in a super fun way”
Clare Pidgeon, Paediatric Occupational Therapist
Once they’ve mastered copying the sounds from the book, and practised the functional movements needed for successful eating, you’ll also find that the coordination of these skills have helped their speech development too!
Ideal for weaning adventures and beyond, the whole family can enjoy this book together. Packed with fun, bright and colourful illustrations, there’s an important skill waiting to be discovered on each page!
Play together, learn together, and most importantly have some fabulous mealtime adventures together.
- 2 x Long Sleeve Coverall
- 1 x Short Sleeve Coverall
- 1 x Two Pack of Dippit™ Weaning Spoons
- 1 x Matching Handi Cutlery Sets
- 1 x Interactive Weaning Series - Two pack
Love these books? Check out the rest of our range of award winning weaning products! Starting with our famous coverall weaning bib, which has empowered over 300,000 parents around the world to let their children explore food freely; enjoying all of the developmental benefits that brings (without worrying about the cleanup which ensues) we have developed a range of products all of which are designed specifically to support your little ones learn about food in the most positive way possible. Developing their coordination, fine motor skills, mouth muscles and mindset to give them the very best chance of developing a positive relationship with food right from the outset.
These books support multiple sensory inputs, helping little ones develop the sensory processing skills and hand-eye coordination they need to learn to confidently self-feed.
Packed with fun, bright and colourful illustrations, there’s a visual and auditory feast waiting to be discovered on each page!
Watch Rachel our Founder & Product Innovator, as she showcases why we’ve developed this interactive weaning book series, and how they deliver fantastic educational developmental benefits to support successful feeding.
We know time-pressured parents want practical bitesize tips and advice from experts to reassure and point them in the right direction on their weaning journey and beyond. So we've created the Feeding Curiosity podcast specifically with you in mind. We'll be working with fantastic experts over the series to tackle topics such as picky eating, flavour exploration, how to manage family mealtime juggles, and much more. Check out our first episode, with Lucinda Miller who gives us the lowdown on how to know when your little one is ready to wean, as well as some amazing top tips which we'd never heard before!
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