[blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler

Wed Feb 25 19:27:40 UTC 2009

But when Gab was a baby my floor was sooooo clean. lol. V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pipi" <blahblahblah0822 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler


> another way to protect your floor is to go buy a cheap plastic shower
> curtain from the dollar store. put it under the high chair. then when she 
> is
> finished eating. clean it off in the shower. and hang to dry for the next
> feeding. saves your carpet or mopping daily.
> ----- 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 4:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
>
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>> 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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