[blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler

Thu Feb 26 22:37:51 UTC 2009

That's a good idea.  Infact, I think this is what i did. V
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From: "Pipi" <blahblahblah0822 at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [blparent] finger food suggestions for an almost toddler


> 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
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>> 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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