[blparent] wanting Ideas on how to feed our baby boy of 6 months.

[Tammy]

Hi,

If he wants a spoon maybe  try giving him his own to play with while you 
feed him with another one.  Babies tend to move alot when you feed them with 
spoons, so there's no avoiding a mess I'm sorry to say.  But if you put your 
hand under his chin you can kind of track where his mouth is and hopefully 
catch whatever drops in yourr hand or in a bib.  Get those bibs that have 
the catch trays or pockets in them, they'll save on mess a bit too.  I would 
also start giving him finger foods like cut up soft fruit and vegetables to 
try to feed himself since he seems to want to do that.  And, if he only eats 
half a spoonful of whatever you feed him, don't worry about it.  At least 
he's eating something, and babies don't really need solid food until 9 
months or even later if you're still breastfeeding.

hth

Tammy

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jesper Holten via blparent
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 4:40 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Cc: Jesper Holten
Subject: [blparent] wanting Ideas on how to feed our baby boy of 6 months.

Dear all.
We have been following this list for the past year but we have not
been writing more than a couple of times so abit of introduction is
probably in order.
We are a blind couple living in Denmark and as mentioned we are both
totally blind.
In December my wife gave birth to Liam our very sweet baby boy. Up
till now he has been exclusively breastfed, but we are now starting to
introduce solid food to him with abit of success but not without
struggles which we know is quite normal.
Still, we would like to hear ideas and inputs on how you have managed
the transition to solid food, spoonfeeding strategies as well as
inputs on baby let weaning if any of you have gone down that path?
I guess we are fairly pragmatic whatever works for us and Liam is what
we will do.
We have introduced him to rice porage  mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes
and mashed catrrots, as well as fruit porage and he seem to like it.
However, he really wants to be in charge of the spoon which would be
fine if only the content did not end up every where else but his
mouth. And he is easily distracted from eating more than a half spoon
at the time.
We do have some sighted help around but obviosly want to do thins our self.

So any ideas would be greatly appreciated
thank you in advance
Jesper and Abigail

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