By Jade Watkins
PUBLISHED: 13:52 EST, 27 March 2012 | UPDATED: 10:44 EST, 28 March 2012
Every mother knows that it can often be difficult to get their child to eat their dinner.
And it seems that Alicia Silverstone has found a very unusual feeding method when it comes to her son Bear's meal time.
The 35-year-old actress appears to have taken inspiration from the way birds feed their chicks by chewing up her 10-month-old baby boy's food and then spitting it in his mouth.
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Unusual: Clueless actress Alicia Silverstone has posted a video of her chewing baby son's food before feeding him mouth-to-mouth
Like the birds: Alicia is seen spitting chewed up food into her 10-month-old's mouth
In a video she posted on her blog, the Clueless actress sits on the couch with Bear during feeding time.
Holding a small bowl, she puts a spoonful of food in her mouth, chews it up before feeding it to him mouth-to-mouth.
Baby Bear Blu clearly knows the drill, as he eagerly reaches to his mother's lips for a mouthful.
Getting it prepared: Alicia chews up her son's food in her mouth
Alicia explains the process in an accompanied written post on her blog.
'I just had a delicious breakfast of miso soup, collards and radish steamed and drizzled with flax oil, cast iron mochi with nori wrapped outside, and some grated daikon. Yum!' she wrote.
'I fed Bear the mochi and a tiny bit of veggies from the soup… from my mouth to his.
Eager: Baby Bear Blu clearly knows the drill, as he eagerly reaches to his mother's lips for a mouthful
'It's his favorite...and mine.
'He literally crawls across the room to attack my mouth if I'm eating. This video was taken about a month or 2 ago when he was a bit wobbly. Now he is grabbing my mouth to get the food!'
The method of her feeding is similar to the way birds feed their young, aside from the regurgitation process.
Pleased: Alicia clearly looks pleased with herself following the process
Unhygienic? Fox News asked medical and nutritional experts what they thought of the feeding method for humans, with one believing it to be an unhygienic method
Feeding on the go: Alicia last week breastfed Bear Blu as she went for a stroll with her husband Christopher Jarecki
Parent birds eat, partially digest the food, then regurgitate it to feed the young.
Fox News asked medical and nutritional experts what they thought of the feeding method for humans.
'It doesn't seem like a hygienic practice,' one doctor told the site.
Alicia is known to be a staunch vegan and has also set up a sanctuary for rescued pets in Los Angeles.
Her Baby Bear Blu was born at the beginning of last May, weighing 7lbs 15oz.
When he was born, the couple's delighted spokesperson said: 'Mom and Dad are completely in love,' and added that the newborn was 'beautiful'.
Silverstone said before his birth that she couldn't wait for her new role as a parent.
'I've been wanting to have a baby since I was two years old – I'm destined to be a mother,' she said.
She wed her husband Christopher Jarecki, 40, - the lead singer of group S.T.U.N., radio presenter and a basketball coach - in June 2005 in an idyllic beach-front ceremony in Lake Tahoe, which is on the California-Nevada border.
After meeting outside a movie theatre in 1997, the couple dated for eight years prior to their marriage.
Throughout her pregnancy committed animal activist Alicia has been promoting her new book, The Kind Diet, which follows vegan principles.
The actress last appeared in the 2008 film Tropic Thunder but is set to star in upcoming films The Art Of Getting By, Vamps and Butter.
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