[blparent] helpful tip for spoon feeding

[Barbara Hammel]

And I knew nothing of this list until last year.
Barbara

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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:50 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] helpful tip for spoon feeding

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