[blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler

Wed Feb 25 19:21:01 UTC 2009

Oh ya, I just remembered, noodles.  I also put noodles on the tray, but I 
did put a little yogurt in a shallow bowl with one of those spoons with a 
rubber covering.  Just remember to give her a variety. You're doing a great 
job, mom. V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler


> Sarah has three teeth in now, and more coming.  I've given her lots of
> different table foods, cut up in small pieces.  She just got up from her 
> nap
> and had some diced ham and some peas, also some chopped pears and peaches
> from the fruit cocktail I ate for lunch.  She's a good eater when it comes
> to finger foods.  But I had been giving her that stuff in addition to a 
> few
> jars of baby food a day, usually one dinner combination and one fruit,
> sometimes a serving of whole milk yogurt, along with her bottles.  It's 
> the
> spoon stuff she doesn't seem to want, so I'll have to make diced solid 
> foods
> a bigger part of her diet.  It's just going to take a little more planning
> than opening jars, I guess.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds
> water."--Swedish proverb
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
>
>
>> Okay, I'm not sure this will be of much help because my child is blind,
>> but he is six and his arms are a lot longer.  What I do is put my finger
>> on his mouth so I know where the head is turning and then I come from
>> above with the spoon so I'm above the arms.
>> What if you just made regular spaghetti and cut it up small with a
>> scissors or put it through the food processor for a few seconds to make
>> the pieces smaller.  How many teeth does she have now?  Couldn't she eat
>> any kind of table food now as long as it's given in small pieces?
>> Barbara
>>
>> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom
>> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:26 PM
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> 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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