[blparent] helpful tip for spoon feeding

[Veronica Smith]

Smile, even if you had I didn't learn to use this silly computer until last 
spring. V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] helpful tip for spoon feeding


> And where was I when I learned that two years ago?  I could have passed 
> that
> tip along and made it easier for you.
> Barbara
>
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> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 12:58 PM
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] helpful tip for spoon feeding
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>> Oh sure, where were you when Gab was a baby.  I could of used that tip.
>> smile. V
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:09 PM
>> Subject: [blparent] helpful tip for spoon feeding
>>
>>
>>> Hi.  I know many of you are past the spoon feeding stage, but there are
>>> some new moms and moms-to-be on the list, so I thought I'd share a 
>>> recent
>>> discovery.  Maybe everybody else has figured it out already, and I'm 
>>> just
>>> slow.  But I've found that pureed baby food is much easier to feed when 
>>> I
>>> thicken it up with a tablespoon or two of baby oatmeal or rice cereal.
>>> When I thicken it just enough so that it stays on an infant spoon, it's
>>> about the texture of pudding, and the baby can still get it in her mouth
>>> and swallow it.  It's easier to get the right amount on the spoon and 
>>> not
>>> lose half of it on its way to its destination.  I have a lot less mess 
>>> to
>>> clean up, plus she's getting some of her cereal at the same time.  She's
>>> eating pureed, organic fruits and veggies now, and I'm moving into the
>>> less finely pureed stuff as well.  Good luck, hope this might help some
>>> of you because I know spoon feeding can be frustrating.  I used to dread
>>> it till I discovered this trick, but now it's easy and even fun to see 
>>> my
>>> baby enjoying her different foods.
>>>
>>> Jo Elizabeth
>>>
>>> It is easy--terribly easy--to shake a man's faith in himself. To take
>>> advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. Take care of
>>> what you are doing. Take care.--George Bernard Shaw in "Candide"
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