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

[Star Gazer]

				Since he wants to feed himself give him
finger food he can eat. 
My oldest daughter was like this, just didn't want to be spoon fed. 
You could also see if he'll guide your hand once he figures out that he
likes having the food in his mouth. You have to go at his pace not yours.
He's still little so you're not expecting him to finnish off the whole bowl.
By my math, he's barely six months. 
Feed him in an area that's easy for you, mine was near the kitchen sink.
Then I'd pick my girls up, wash them off at the sink and put new clothes on
them. 
Also, get into a good mental place, listen to music or the news or old time
radio, whatever makes you calm and view it as spending time with your baby
v. getting the little monster to eat so you can get out the door. 


-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jesper
Holten via blparent
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 4:40 PM
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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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