Mostly out of my own boredom, I started
feeding her some soft finger foods like pieces of cooked sweet potatoes or carrots.
Not exact matches
If baby is already into
finger foods, here is where a buffet becomes your friend, as there is always plenty of bread, well - cooked pasta, and other
soft things they can
feed themselves.
Other such devices include: a nursing supplementer attached to the
finger (SNS), a
soft, flexible medicinal cup, a
feeding syringe, a medicine dropper, or a spoon.
Even a very young baby can be
fed with an eyedropper,
feeding syringe,
soft, flexible, medicine cup, spoon, bowl, or nursing supplementer which can be used at the breast or attached to a
finger.
• If you find it impossible to nurse your baby due to nipple soreness, you may opt to
feed him with an alternative
feeding device such as an eye dropper, medicine dropper,
feeding syringe,
soft, flexible medicine cup, spoon, or nursing supplementer, attached to your
finger, while your nipples heal.
If you have been
feeding your child
soft or pureed foods but haven't yet introduced
finger foods, you may want to wait awhile before challenging the child with a spoon.
But once
finger food started she lost interest in our
feeding her all together.Yet she will only eat dry things, like the gerber snacks (wagon wheels, stars, lil munchies) she will not touch anything moist,
soft, crumbly or if its warm or cold it has to be dry and room temperature.
Your baby will likely love to
feed themselves, so if you choose to, you can offer them
soft finger food rather than pureed food from the get - go.
He may be ready to start
feeding himself, too, so arm him with supplies of
soft finger foods (be sure they aren't choking hazards).
With
soft, flexible tubing and a baby - controlled flow rate, breastfeeding and the Hazelbaker fingerfeeder is an effective and durable tool for
finger feeding a baby who can not nurse at the breast for various reasons.
I hadn't intended to start
feeding her yet, but she was sitting in her high chair watching me cook dinner at about 7 months old when she reached over to the counter nearby, grabbed a ripe avocado, stuck her little
finger through the
soft skin and started scooping out the contents to eat it!
6 am Milk
feed 10 am Baby cereal mixed with baby milk +
soft fruit
fingers Milk
feed 2 pm Smooth mashed or pureed vegetables +
soft vegetable
fingers Milk
feed 6 pm Smooth mashed or pureed fruit +
soft fruit
fingers or toast crusts Milk
feed 10 pm Milk
feed
Even if she does not yet have teeth, there are plenty of
soft finger foods that are safe to
feed her.
Offering
soft finger foods will encourage self -
feeding (reaching out, grabbing and munching on food), which helps with oral motor development, and it allows babies to be in full control of how much and at what pace they eat, which will help with self - regulation of food intake later on.