[blparent] wanting Ideas on how to feed our baby boy of 6 months.
Jesper Holten
jesper.holten at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 06:16:10 UTC 2015
Hi all.
Thank you so much for the inputs so far. I am sure I and my wife can
use it. We have a plastic bib with the pocket already, and you are
right it is the easiest for clean-up.
Please if others have inputs on this please continue the thread.
Yeah, we love the name Liam, he is really a Liam boy, full of mischief
and generally very happy. Liam is becomming a popular name here in
Denmark though it is a name that has not been used before a few years
back. Obviously, in the US, the UK and Ireland and in France the name
is fairly common.
Take care
Jesper and Abigail.
On 6/23/15, Danielle Ledet via blparent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Oh and some mashed up beans and rice if yall eat that.
>
> On 6/22/15, Annely Rose via blparent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 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
>> --------------------------------------------
>> 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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