[blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler

Wed Feb 25 19:48:23 UTC 2009

Scarfing up from the floor is one thing, but off a rug is sometimes a little 
more difficult. Smile! V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (IT)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler


> Not if your pooch happens to be a guide dog.
> Mine gained weight doing this, and my daughter also thought it was cool
> to see my dog run around scarfing up food hence she (the daughter) never
> got enough to eat and was always hungry to the point where she was
> waking up newborn style.
> Putting the dog in a different room didn't work, she knew if Mommy was
> home so was the dog.
> I ultimately retired said dog.
> Also, be aware too that some foods are toxic for dogs, rasins come to
> mind as are onions.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Veronica Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:59 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
>
> Gab also liked green beans, peas, corn, small pieces of sweet potatoes,
> pieces of ham, dogs, etc.  We also used a small rug under the chair, but
> if you have a pooch, let them clean for you. (lol) V
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Baldwin" <mbaldwin at gpcom.net>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
>
>
>> Jo Elizabeth,
>> Sounds very familiar.  My daughter that is now 33 months, after she
>> learned she could feed herself, wanted nothing to do with being fed.
>> She was going to do it herself, and that was all there was to it.
>> This started when she was about 9-10 months old, and to this day she
>> is a very independent little girl.  But, we came up with different
>> things she could feed herself, like cheese, ham, different kinds of
>> fruits, bananas, grapes, boiled vegetables of about any kind, like
>> corn, peas, karat, green beans.
>> I guess it comes down to what you want her to eat, what your
>> comfortable with her eating, and what kind of mess you want to have to
>
>> clean up.  An old rug under the high chair can help from getting some
>> of the mess on the carpet, or other flooring.
>>
>> I am sure some will disagree with my suggestions, cause like cheese, I
>
>> read your not suppose to give until they are a year old or so, but it
>> worked for us, and my daughter is alive and happy and healthy.  Just
>> make sure to cut the food in to small bits for her, and like ham, we
>> cut off the skin, cause that was harder to chew.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael Baldwin
>> Got print, need Braille?
>> http://www.ReadWithDots.com
>>
>> -----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 1:27 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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