[blparent] Techniques for Feeding Baby Food to a Child

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Hi, Bob.  Many blind parents have asked this question before you, so please 
don't get down on yourself for having trouble feeding solid foods to your 
baby.  Parents who can see have a hard time with the issue of getting food 
into a moving target.

First of all, now that your baby has probably been eating pureed food for a 
little while, he's had some practice at it.  So it might help you to stir a 
pinch of baby rice cereal into the jarred fruits and vegetables to thicken 
them up a little.  They'll stay on the spoon better if they're slightly 
thickened.  There's also a spoon on the market, made by Boon, that has a 
bulb on the handle end.  You fill the bulb with food, then squeeze a tiny 
bit of food out onto the spoon, which allows you to control drips.

Some people have had good luck holding their babies on their laps for 
feedings, because they felt they had better control of turning heads.  That 
didn't work for me.  I just put a big plastic bib on my baby, set her in her 
high chair, and hoped for the best.  Be prepared for a lot of mess, and 
decide ahead of time not to let it upset you.  I promise, it's easier to 
just resign yourself to the mess and clean it up afterward than it is to try 
and prevent it.  In warm weather or when the house is warm, you can simply 
undress your baby and feed him in a diaper, to save on the laundry, and then 
wash him off afterward.

Hope this helps.

Jo Elizabeth

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may 
kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at 
evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert Cole
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:19 PM
To: BlParent
Subject: [blparent] Techniques for Feeding Baby Food to a Child

Hello, everyone.

I do not have any problems with bottle feeding my nearly eight-month-old
son, but he is now eating baby food. I feel very ignorant about this,
but I do not know of techniques for feeding my son baby food (e.g.
fruits, vegetables, etc) from a jar.

If any of you have a certain way of feeding your little ones baby food,
I would be very grateful to hear your input.

One bit of information: My son turns his head whenever he hears someone
talk or if he hears an interesting noise. So as it turns out, feeding
him is like hitting a moving target. <smile>

Thanks for any advice which you can offer.

Take care.

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