Whatbit the only way he'll get any good with a spoon is with practice! That means mess!LOL! Lots of mess here - DD is in such a hurry sometimes that we use 2 spoons - I give her the spoon with a bit on it and let her go. I really try to give the spoon to her right close to her mouth so she has less room to spill. :) but we usually have to wipe down the whole body (as she loves to swing her hands around her head) or just go straight to the bath. :)
The mess never improves really, it just changes. DD eats yogurt with a spoon perfectly, even spooning it off her face when she's missed! Then she'll turn the pot upside down and bang it on the table to make pretty circles Or the spoon/ dinner gets thrown/ dropped in protest. Although the best of all is tipping the plate up and watching everything slide offYep, we get this behaviour with T too. :P
Could be that she is still very young and has the reflex of sticking her tongue back out of her mouth which would push the food back out, in any form. It might take a while for that reflex to go away.Sorry I was confusing, DD who is just starting eats great!! It is the 17mo DS that spits it out so quick!
Martina, would you recommend the book. I've not seen it before.You know, I never ended up making much out of it, but the recipes are really good and I've heard great things about it. I think I'm just lazy. :P But will give it another go with F gets older I think. I did make the lentil croquettes and they turned out well, T kinda liked them, but I found they were a lot of work!
CM, Does he eat a lot of the actual pasta or suck the sauce off. I've given pasta to Lola but she doesn't really consume much of it, if any. Potatoes on the other hand. She's like me. Scoffs them!He doesn't suck the sauce off at all actually. I cut the spaghetti into about 1cm lengths once it's cooked so he just grabs a handful of pasta and sauce and mashes it up in his mouth. He still doesn't have any teeth BTW. He doesn't really like potatoes. Has one or two mouthfuls and then he's not interested. Have only really tried mash and chips (which he will suck) so far though.
Cadie's Mum, these are two recipes I got from the BLW website. I've not tried them yet but have been meaning to. They're finger foods, rather than a dish, as such. Might be worth trying?
Carrie and Xavier's lentil cakes...
• 1 tbps olive oil
• 1 onion
• 125g red lentils
• 400ml veg stock or bouillon
• 85g bread crumbs (stale or oven dried is possible)
• Flat leaf parsley to taste (or other herbs - optional)
1. Gently fry onion in olive oil until soft.
2. Add the lentils and stock to the onions and bring to the boil.
3. Simmer for 20-25 minutes.
4. Mix with breadcrumbs and flat leaf parsley (optional).
5. Shape mixture into small patties for little hands to hold. If your mixture feels a little sticky add more bread crumbs.
6. Brush with oil and place on lightly oiled baking tray - cook for approx 7 to 10 mins on gas mark 6 (I did for about 12 I think)
Some gagging but no biggy I guess.yeah - DD still gags a little here and there - but they catch on! ;)
So you freeze then steam when you are ready to feed her?SOme stuff, like cauliflour, I blanch and then freeze so I can do a quick steam before feeds. The veggie patties and meatballs I bake and freeze. Sweet potatoes and squash I just slice and freeze and steam later.
What is cuke?cucumber :) The lazy way to say it.
so purees and cereal are completely out in my house!!
She may have had an allergic reaction, don't they say it's the second and third time that the reactions are bigger? The bodies defences work quicker each time they meet the offending article!This is what I worried about, now I am not totally sure which the offender was :P
EloysH could you mince or puree the chicken but then make it into patties/burgers/meatballs that you could cut up and do as finger foods? Or you could puree it and dip sticks of other foods, like the swede, into it to be sucked off. DS loves eating houmous this way. We do bread and pasta with purees on but I don't think you are giving these are you?I am pretty sure there is a recipe that would work doing it this way:
I had never heard the term rutabaga but I looked it up and yes apparently what we in the UK call swede you in the US call rutabaga. How did that happen I wonder? LOL.
I also looked up chocko on google and apparently it is similar to a cucumber with one fat end...
I think we should start a BLW photo gallery? What do you reckon?Oh that would be so funny. We could guess the mess!
I think we should start a BLW photo gallery?I'm in - except I don't know how??? How do you add a picture to your post?
Are you on facebook Sophie because that site automatically makes the pics smaller. I always just add them from facebook to save myself the trouble.
I have a new bib for DS. It is a Tommee Tippee one that is bendy plastic with a pouch at the bottom so any dropped food gets caught in there instead of on the floor/highchair. It is so funny watching DS look in there and decide what piece of dropped food he wants and then try to fish it out. Saves on the wastage and mess a little too.
What were you feeding her Mary? I find DS gets a contact rash/red blotches from some foods on his skin around his mouth. Tomatoes are one culprit and anything acidic. It goes quickly though and he doesn't seem bothered by it.
There aren't many 9 month olds that eat duck breastTrue. It was mine, I just cut a big chunk off, so was the red cabbage. The chips and mushrooms were DH's.
Keep trying...they get the hang of it quick
I reminded him I'm just progressive and choosing the best options for our child. They just don't happen to be the norm.
Be very proud ladies.... I cooked a chicken yesterday for the first time ever!!:) :) :) good for you! my lo didn't like chicken or any meat the first many, many, many times i offered it, but now she loves rotisserie chicken - so like Stefanie says - just keep offering!
I guess this is all part of BLW & he'll hopefully get the hang of it?Yup!! That is all part of it...the mess is the unfortunate part, but the more you let him play the more likely he will eat stuff in the future.
Ooo, what are they?Are you talking about saltine crackers?
Kim if the food isn't long enough for it to stick out of their hand they won't be able to eat it. It takes ages for them to grasp opening their hands & eating it without dropping! Or in most cases it takes a while to figure out this toy actually tastes different from plastic & takes that feeling away from his tummy!
I was watching S eat her cereal this morning, she happily spooned the milk out of the bowl that she had tipped up to get at it! Apparently her use of cutlery is well in advance of others Grin
Should I let her play with it anyway and just let her learn its use by watching usExactly this. Give her the cutlery, who cares what she does with it. It might take her 2yrs from now to learn how to use it, and that's ok. It's a good way to encourage independence and help them gain confidence. One day she will think "oh, mommy trusts me enough to let me do this on my own!" I never once tried to teach T how to use his cutlery, he learned soley by imitation. But I always gave him some with every meal, even from a young age. Children learn through exploration, sometimes you have to let go and trust that they will try and eventually get it. I have often read that when it comes to a new toy, instead of taking it out and showing them how to use it, just give it to them and let them figure it out. I figure the same goes for things like cutlery and sippy cups. ;)
(i tried to get the most fat in per bite lol!)This is me right now!! Elise is in the 10% as of today...well, she always has been, she can't have dairy, but we should own an avocado plantation the way she and I go through avocados!
but comes to show you that the cute chubby ones aren't always better eaters!
Ali-that is so awesome! I can't wait to have Indian food again and I am hoping the kids will love it too. It is one of my fav types of food, but they use so much butter that I can't have it until my little girl's tummy settles down some.Yeah I am not convinced all that fat, salt, spice and sugar is good for Cadan and I wouldn't let him have it everyday but as a one off I just let him have what he wanted.
it's mad that he's nearly six months already!!
How exciting Marsha, you are finally joining in.
I have told my DH that until he reads up on any aspect of parenting, he can't judge how I would like to do things. ... Listen, this is your child's eating habits we're talking about, don't settle for mush if you don't think it's what's best for him.
Afterall, I'll bet you're the only one whose read about this stuff. I have told my DH that until he reads up on any aspect of parenting, he can't judge how I would like to do things. ... Listen, this is your child's eating habits we're talking about, don't settle for mush if you don't think it's what's best for him.
as you can tell from above, we're not doing to good either. Although today, she did eat about 1/2 an egg for breakfast. I had to feed her tho - she had it on her tray so she could eat it herself, but she didn't even touch it. But then when I fed her, she ate it. She seems to take much more if I'm feeding her from a fork.
Afterall, I'll bet you're the only one whose read about this stuff. I have told my DH that until he reads up on any aspect of parenting, he can't judge how I would like to do things. ... Listen, this is your child's eating habits we're talking about, don't settle for mush if you don't think it's what's best for him.
Megan. I heard a stomach is the size of the fist so if Ellen is eating food roughly the size of her fist that would fill her tummy right up.
I've heard it's the seeds in the bananas, but not the fruit part that doesn't have seeds...
Any advice about BLW and traveling??Everything Mary said :) We bring a cooler and bring veg, fruit, etc. Also if you can do dairy most convenience stores carry yogurt and some sort of fruit. And if you absolutely do not want to bring stuff, most fast food places have a healthy option. So like I think it is Wendy's and burger king have a mandarin chicken salad and I think the chicken is grilled, or you can ask for it to be. My girlfriend gets this for her DD. She eats the oranges and chicken. Then you can have the lettuce. Add some cheerios and boom you've got a meal.
- shall I steam things like apples or pears - they are quite hard?I did at the beginning when I offered wedges. ALso, whole soft pears or peeled apples are great once they have tteth because they really can't get big chunks off.
how do I give berries like blueberries or grapes? I'm just scared he'll the put the whole thing in his mouth?I give blueberries whole as they are really soft and just mush up. I always cut grapes (seedless ones) in half. DS LOVES them!
- how do I give runny things - DD LOVES soups and cereal, so we are having a lot of those, and we don't eat bread. Could I help him with the spoon with just the watery part of the soup (not chunks of vegetables)?I often strain soup to get rid of some of the liquid and just give him a bowl of the chunks and give him a spoon to use, which he now uses a bit, but when he was younger he just used his hands. For soups that are totally smooth (cream of potatoe or the like), I put it in a small cup and he drinks it like a smoothie.
I love spices and I taught DD to eat them from quite an early age, she's obviously not having chillies, but I do add pepper and other spices. Shall I cook without anything?I introduced spices early too but did it as if they were new foods, so every couple of days (I know some people on here do that and others don't so i't smore of personal preference thing) to make sure they were ok. Now he eats sooo many different flavours; it's fabulous! Just watch salt and you're good to go.
So I guess I will need to brace myself to see DS getting hands into yogurt or cottage cheese)... but more importantly, if he does that, that teaches him dirty and messy is ok, will he ever develop a feeling having food all over him is not nice?Yes, BLW does end to be very messy, but my DS was taught early on that food is not to be played with. He doesn't throw food on the floor andrarely drops any there by accident. He's now eats out of bowls and cups and plates and is gettign very good with utensils. If he starts wo play with his food, I knwo that he's finished and take him to get cleaned up right away. It also really depends on personality. Soem kids are just really clean and others are messier. Be patient with it all!
with so many different things DS is bound to try in a short timeframe, how do I isolate potential allergic reaction cause?2 options, really- 1)introduce foods slowly, givign them 2-3 days in a row to see if there is a reaction or 2) write down everything you feed him and if you see some kind of reaction start trying things again 1 at a time to isolate the cause. TBH, I went with the first option for DS and after a month or so went from giving new foods every 2-3 dyas to 1 day and then a couple of new foods a day. I kept a list of foods and watched to see if there were any reactions.
I know he's too young for pincer grip for the ground beef, but I thought why not give him the chance to try?You never know. Both T and F could pick up things with their pincher grasp on the first try at 7mos. F is already a pro at picking up things like small pieces of ground beef!
Nt that she could understand me.You'll be amazed. If it's anything like S she probably understands every word you say!
mostly white or yellowishbread and cheese - YUM! :)
She might, but I don't really think so. Definitely not with her hands - she loves to roll her food between both hands and get it everywhere. And she'll eat lots of different textures, but just not much of anything. Hey I read on the 7-9 BC post (that I'm not technically on anymore!) that Myla said kitty... that's so cool!! It's crazy - that was the first thing Ellen said! That and hot. She still doesn't say mama or dada, but every time she sees a kitty she gets all excited and says keee. And when she sees the stove or my coffee cup, she'll say haaaaa.
! Oh, and did you know that cottage pie and orange segment AT THE SAME TIME is where it's at?! We'll call it, cottage pie a la Jack!\
That is to adorable that she says "haaaa". i'm so excited for cute words and all that:)