[blparent] wanting Ideas on how to feed our baby boy of 6months.
Judy Jones
jtj1 at cableone.net
Wed Jun 24 00:42:38 UTC 2015
Oh yes! Beans and rice a good nutritional balance.
Most definitely.
Judy
-----Original Message-----
From: Danielle Ledet via blparent
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 9:28 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Cc: Danielle Ledet
Subject: Re: [blparent] wanting Ideas on how to feed our baby boy of
6months.
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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