[blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
Pickrell, Rebecca M (IT)
REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com
Tue Feb 24 21:05:49 UTC 2009
It really does.
And, you can get undressed yourself or get into a t-shirt because
anything she touches including you and your clothes will also get
slimed.
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From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
I was just joking last night that I ought to get in the bath tub with
Sarah and the food, and just let her go to town. I hadn't thought of
stripping her down to a diaper, though, that might save on the laundry.
Jo Elizabeth
"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one
holds water."--Swedish proverb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (IT)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
> Hi there.
> Melanie was *exactly* like this, right down to the bottle and cup.
> What I did was strip her down to her diaper, and just let her have it.
> Then, I bathed her and put her in the playpen while I cleaned up the
> high-chair.
> I even baught a wooden high chair, because it was easier to wipe.
> I joked that I would feed her in the bathtub but never resorted to it,
> though I seriously thought of getting in the empty tub with her and a
> bowl of food.
> The upshot is that now, a year later, Mellie is a neat freak. She's
> also good at the spoon and fork.
> You can also give her more finger foods, hot dogs, cheese, deli meat,
> steamed veggies, fruit (you can get it precut in little tubs) stuff
> like that.
> I also did this and left the messy foods for my husband to feed, who
> also had the same experience as yours.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:27 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
>
> Hi, all. Sarah and I just got finished with the lunch from hell. Or
> at least that's the way I perceive it--she seems pretty satisfied with
> the world now that it's over--she's babbling happily and playing with
> the pots and pans in my kitchen cupboards like nothing happened, like
> her clothes and mine, and our hair, and the high chair aren't covered
> with Gerber spaghetti and meat sauce, like we weren't both near tears
> five minutes ago. I feel like I got hit by a train and dragged for a
> little while. A slight exaggeration maybe, but only a slight one.
>
> Sarah and I have been having battles lately over the spoon, most of
> which I lose. It isn't that she doesn't want food, she's fortunately
> not a picky eater. She'll try anything. The deal is, she wants to
> feed herself. Fair enough, that's the end goal, right? But the spoon
> is too cumbersome for her, so she resorts to her hands. That's fine,
> as long as she's eating diced banana or sweet potato or bits of meat
> or hard-boiled egg yolk, or whole round peas, or Cheerios. But those
> foods alone hardly make up a balanced diet. She needs other things
> that are too soft and runny to pick up, like yogurt and such, and she
> absolutely won't allow me to feed her with a spoon. If I can manage
> to hold down her two wildly waving fists with one hand, she flops her
> head madly from side to side so I can't get the dreaded spoon anywhere
> near her mouth with the other, and she ends up with food behind her
> ears, across her eyebrows, down her neck--you get the picture. And
> you can imagine the screeching sound track that goes with it. I'm
> finding it hard to be calm and patient. This time, after many tries,
> I gave up on the spoon altogether because I don't want the high chair
> to become a power struggle or a source of traumatic memories, and I
> sure don't want to cross the line into force feeding. I had that done
> to me as a child and still suffer the effects. I thickened the Gerber
> spaghetti and meat sauce with cereal so it would hold together and
> just let her shovel it into her mouth with both hands from the high
> chair tray, and then cleaned up the big mess afterward. Gerald can
> feed Sarah with a spoon, but she certainly isn't willing, it's just
> that he can see the flailing hands and the dodging mouth and sneak
> bites in on her. But he isn't here most of the time, and I have a
responsibility to figure this out.
>
> Anyway, besides the catharsis of writing this all out when I feel I
> have to tell most people most of the time that things are utterly
> perfect, otherwise I'm afraid they'll be doubting me as a parent and,
> in the case of my family, wondering if they should intervene--I guess
> my question is how do I resolve this stalemate? I know I should give
> Sarah more finger foods, and I'll be looking for every new idea I can
get on that front.
> But till she can feed herself with a spoon, how can I help her and the
> mealtime skirmishes that nobody really wins? It's so odd because she
> has no wish to hold her own bottle or learn to drink from a cup, but
> she wants to feed herself no matter what.
>
> Thanks,
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one
> holds water."--Swedish proverb
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