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

Annely Rose annely53r at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 23 02:57:38 UTC 2015 

Hi,

Your baby has a beautiful name.

Although my baby is now 29, I still remember what I did.  I, too, breast fed, but had to start solid foods such as cereal and fruit at 4 months.  I put everything in a bottle and used a cross cut nipple, but made the hole a little bigger so the thick substance would go through.  That's something you have to gage because you don't want your baby taking it too fast.  Now they want parents to introduce vegetables first instead of fruits so the baby gets used to the vegetable-tasting foods before the sweet fruits.  My kids wouldn't touch vegetables after they had been introduced to fruits first.  This eliminated the issues with the spoon.  Babies have plenty of time for that.  For finger foods, you can try peas, carrots, plain Cheerios (a type of cereal that looks like tiny doughnuts but not as sweet), small pieces of banana, cooked plain elbow macaroni.  Introduce new foods one at a time for several days to be sure your child doesn't have an allergic
 reaction to it.  also, put only a few pieces out at a time.  Do not give your baby honey until he is at least 2.  Happy times and many blessings.

Annely
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On Mon, 6/22/15, Danielle Ledet via blparent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [blparent] wanting Ideas on how to feed our baby boy of 6	months.
 To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
 Cc: "Danielle Ledet" <singingmywayin at gmail.com>
 Date: Monday, June 22, 2015, 6:26 PM
 
 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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