[blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler

Wed Feb 25 22:28:16 UTC 2009

have you tried giving her a spoon that she can play with and then try 
feeding her with another spoon?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler


> 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
>
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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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