[blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler

Thu Feb 26 02:17:36 UTC 2009

a degree I guess
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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
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Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler


> No they don't, and what makes them an expert anyway.  Keep up the good 
> work. V
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> From: "dianna alley" <dianna24 at earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
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>>I plan to do that as well with mine.  the experts don't live at home with
>> me.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Michael Baldwin" <mbaldwin at gpcom.net>
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
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>>> Who knows, I might have miss heard about the cheese, but the "experts"
>>> change stuff so much, I just do what I and my wife feel is right and 
>>> best
>>> for our kids, and it has worked so far.
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael Baldwin
>>> Got print, need Braille?
>>> http://www.ReadWithDots.com
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>>> -----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 2:52 PM
>>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler
>>>
>>> I hadn't heard that about cheese.  I don't like the stuff myself, but
>>> Sarah
>>> loves all kinds of cheese--Swiss, cheddar, Mozzarela.  I could try deli
>>> meats as well, though I thought I had heard they had to be heated till
>>> they
>>> were steaming.  I can't remember why now.  Thanks for the ideas.
>>>
>>> Jo Elizabeth
>>>
>>> "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one 
>>> holds
>>> water."--Swedish proverb
>>> ----- 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
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>>>
>>>> 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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