[blparent] feeding baby in the high chair

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

You might consider, as your baby gets more advanced at eating, mixing a dab 
of baby rice cereal into the pureed fruit or veggies you are trying to feed. 
The cereal will thicken the puree slightly and make it easier to keep on the 
spoon.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:39 PM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] feeding baby in the high chair

> Hello Ronit,
>
> I keep my son's high-chair right next to our kitchen table where the food 
> is
> and then I take a spoon full of food and cup one hand under the spoon as I
> start to guide it towards my son's mouth.  I then use some of the fingers 
> on
> the hand that I have under the spoon so food doesn't fall and find my 
> son's
> mouth to then guide the food in.  I use things like, air plane or train
> noises or play silly sing-song games to encourage him to open his mouth 
> and
> that helps a ton.  When he takes a bight I smile at my son and praise him
> for being such a good eater.  I don't verbally praise him for every single
> bight but I do smile and like to make sure that he knows that he is doing 
> a
> very good thing by letting the food go into his mouth and eating.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Erin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Ronit Ovadia Mazzoni
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 10:53 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] feeding baby in the high chair
>
> Hi everyone,
> My son is 9.5 months and he's getting  to the age where feeding him on my
> lap is getting more difficult. However, if I put him in the high chair, 
> it's
> hard for me to get the spoon in his mouth because he's so squirmy. He's
> squirmy on my lap too, I suspect because he wants to start to feed 
> himself,
> but he still only has two teeth so there's not much I can give him in the
> way of finger food. I feel that putting him in the high chair is better 
> for
> him but so much harder for me as a blind person. Do you all have any tips? 
> I
> have tried standing behind the chair but have to reach so far in front of 
> it
> that it's hard for me. Being in front of it or on the side is still
> difficult. Any tips would be appreciated, thanks!
> Ronit
>
>
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