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

[Danielle Ledet]

Hi,

Whoa boy I remember those days. Let's see. I used to sit sideways to
the table with baby in the crook of my arm. You will have to turn
slightly a bit to scoop out of the bowl since it seems he's a mover
and grabber. Guide with one hand the spoon, and use your other under
his chin to guide the spoon in. You can hold a little arm down with
the arm that is under his chin. This is also a time of
experienmentation so I wouldn't worry about how much he's eating at a
sitting just concentrate on feeding a few times per day and gradually
introducing a variety of foods. You could offer a poon to play with
when he's not eating or on the high  chair tray with juast asmall bit
of food for him to explore. I also liked to give finger foods for them
to pick up by themselves like the fruit from fruit cocktail, grapes
cut in half, cut-up bananas (warning: they stain so make sure hes
undressed or dressed in something you won't mind passing to the trash
if need be. They're great frozen), teething biscuits and crackers,
Cheerios, and frozen peas. I love those plastic bibs with the wide
pockets on them too. They just rinse right off and air-dry.

Baby-led weaning: they usually will nurse until and gradually delete a
feeding hear and there. Usually, the day feedings slack off first.
Danielle

On 6/22/15, Tammy via blparent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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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