[blparent] Making your own baby food?

[Dena Wainwright]

the fresh food feeder is basically a mesh basket that the food goes into. 
they can hold it in their hand and gum it and squeeze pureed food through 
the mesh holes. Elise never touched hers, and I personally find the mesh 
hard to completely clean - depending on what you're using in it. they do 
work well for teething, as you can put things like frozen blueberries or 
juice cubes into them without worrying about a choking hazzard.
Dena

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leanne Merren" <leemer02 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Making your own baby food?


> Miranda,
> I used jar baby food from the store with my first, and bought a bunch of 
> it for my second child and she wouldn't touch it.  She spit it out and 
> turned her head and wanted nothing to do with it.  So I went straight to a 
> fresh food feeder, and then to table foods with her.  With my third I 
> never bought baby food.  I did puree some with my blender, but not much. 
> I mostly did cereal, and some pureed avocado and pears, at first, at 
> around 6 months, but not all the time because my pediatrician didn't want 
> me to start solids till 9 months.  So at 9 months I started with the fresh 
> food feeder again and table foods.  I fed them things like apple sauce, 
> mashed potatoes, banana, toast, yogurt (Yo Baby is great for infants)... 
> As they got older I moved on to noodles, small pieces of fruit or cooked 
> veggie, cereal...  Oh and the Gerber puffs.  I started some of those 
> around 6 months and she started feeding herself those at 7 months, so she 
> did have those quite a bit before 9 months.  But she was still nursing so 
> that was where she got most of her nutrition.  If she had been formula fed 
> I would have given more formula than solid food until a year.  I don't 
> think there's anything wrong with buying baby food, I just felt like I 
> wasted a lot of it if he didn't finish the whole jar, or if he didn't like 
> the food, whereas if I made my own I could try pureeing just a little bit 
> and not waste a bunch of it.  I also used tips from the site that Dena 
> suggested.
> Leanne
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Miranda Borka" <knownoflove at gmail.com>
> To: "Blind Parents" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 7:56 AM
> Subject: [blparent] Making your own baby food?
>
>
>> Hi,
>> Do any of you blend solid foods to make your own baby food rather than 
>> buying it from the stores?
>> If so, what are your experiences?
>> Thanks, and have a great week!
>>
>> In Christ, Miranda
>>
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