[blparent] feeding baby food,

[Brandy W]

I've struggled a bit with this myself and here are the things that have helped me. First I got a kidopotamus rubber bib with a large pocket that actually stays open unlike the more flimsy plastic ones. Then I got the smallest spoon I could find which for me was a Tupperware discontinued spoon that comes in a case, but has a long handle. Then I add cereal to everything I feed her if it isn't already semi thick. I'm very careful not to mound the spoon because if I do then some ends up in the mouth, and more around their mouth and down their front. I hold the spoon pretty close to the neck of the spoon so I can use my pinky under the spoon to find the mouth of the baby. Most of the time I do fine knowing where to go but if the baby turns their head my pinky figures this out not the spoon of food. I go in the mouth slightly at a downward angle so when I pull out the spoon is going upward. Last I try to be face to face with the baby so it is easy to go straight at them and easy to interact. My favorite way is to put the baby in the bumbo chair with tray, and put them on the counter. O is it a mess!, but with time I've gotten much better. Good luck! Bran
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peggy Shald
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 1:42 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blparent] feeding baby food,

I asked this question on another list but thought I’d ask again on here.  Always good to get different opinions.  How did you feed your babies baby food?  My son is almost six months old and we started feeding him baby food about a month ago.  I think I get more of it on his face and clothes then I do in his mouth, lol.  Any suggestions??  I should have expert answers on how to do this as my two older kids were fed and survived but I think with them I got more everywhere too.  Any thoughts would be helpful!!

Peggy
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