Try leaving a drop of gerber
baby food on a plate or a tray and see how it drys up to become almost like plastic.
Not exact matches
When you have these
babies sitting
on your
plate, you want to believe they're winters» best green
food and it might be so.
There comes a time in every
baby's life when the
food on your
plate starts to look better than what she's been eating.
I would also encourage mom to always have the
food that the
baby is eating
on everyone else's
plate too.
My son also gags
on the stage 3
baby food, but he eats regular
food and off of my
plate.
If your
baby if off the bottle and
on table
food, be extra careful with loading
plates with
foods that may cause allergies or that your child may be sensitive to.
A dash of salt in a bowl of muffin batter is different than a dash of salt
on a small serving of
food on baby's
plate.
I was just wondering since they have changed to the My
Plate concept instead (making vegetables the largest
food group instead of grains) if that has changed your thoughts
on a
baby's grain intake as well.
Rather, show your
baby that it's OK and normal to leave
food on your
plate if you are satisfied.
Leave
food on your
plate if you are comfortably full — try not to instill the «clean your
plate» mentality in your
baby.
Even if your
baby isn't yet reaching for the
food on your
plate, you may begin giving him the opportunity to explore eating by offering him
foods on a regular basis.
Pay attention to signs like increased interest in solid
food (they'll probably try to steal if right off of your
plate), ability to sleep through the night, sit up fully
on their own, and a decreased interest in nursing, according to
Baby Center.
You might start to notice your
baby watching you like a hawk while you eat, or even grabbing for the
food on your
plate, if she happens to be sitting in your lap during a meal.
To use a possibly clunky analogy: when a
baby or toddler eats
on demand at Mama's Milk Diner, they're not forced to wait an hour or more to eat after ordering, and they won't have their
food abruptly snatched from their mouths or their
plates cleared away before they're done eating.
You can either begin with finger
foods scattered
on a
plate or high chair or with larger chunks of
food for them to gum
on as is done in
baby led weaning.
By 5 or 6 months of age, most
babies will be reaching and trying to grab
food that parents have
on their
plates.
Or maybe the
foods can't mingle
on your
plate, you can only use chopsticks or a
baby spoon, you can eat only at certain hours, or you have to chew each mouthful 10 times before you can swallow.