How often are you still spoon feeding LO? Not including purees.

JuneBugsMommy · July 2012

The past few nights we've had 'messy' dinners: lasagna, bacon cheeseburger mac, chicken fettuccine alfredo. I spoon fed most of those meals to DS, I did put some on his tray and let him use his fork (because that's his new favorite thing) and he picked up the food and ate it. I really don't mind the mess because he gets a bath right after dinner but I feel like he will eat more if I feed it to him.

Do you feed these kind of meals to your LO or just let them go to town?

march2008 · July 2012

It depends on the food. The dining room in our apartment is carpeted, so it's not as easy to clean up things like red pasta sauce when they are thrown on the floor. DD is in some kind of phase (I hope!) where she throws her food when she's either bored or full. There are some things that I put on her tray for her to self-feed, like veggies, fruit, pieces of egg or chicken....but things like cottage cheese or anything with pasta sauce - I feed to her with a spoon to avoid the mess that can happen if she throws it.

gymnst1013 · July 2012

We have never spoon fed N (with the exception of the first week or so before we quit purees). Occasionally he'll want a bite off of our fork or he'll want us to load up his fork for him, but he's always fed himself.

CarlaAndJames · July 2012

Never. I used to preload a spoon with things like yogurt and let her grab it from me, but now she can pretty much scoop it up with a spoon herself and do it. (not cleanly, but she can!)

ShandaB · July 2012

I never spoon feed anymore. If it's a messy meal then I just know I'll have a big clean up to do. Oddly enough some of the messiest meals are DS favorites.

JavaVino910 · July 2012

She usually just self-feeds with her fingers. I preload DD's spoon every once in a while. She takes it from there. She refuses to let me spoon feed her. She tries to scoop food onto her spoon so I know that she gets the concept, but hasn't yet successfuly spooned anything into her mouth.

Sunidaze · July 2012

We do a combination of both. The more 'solid' kind of food, I will put on her tray and she can feed herself. But stuff like mashed potatoes, oatmeal, cottage cheese, etc., I will sppon feed her.

klv · July 2012

Other than yogurt or applesauce, never. We have not attempted forks yet

M&M227 · July 2012

99% of the time I just let her do it. She's much happier and I get to eat also.

Baby4OT · July 2012

I still spoon feed messy foods most of the time. She often wants to take the spoon from me and put it in her mouth so I let her do that, but for some of the messier dinners I just do it. I know I need to let her do it more often, but sometimes I just can't deal with the mess.

stephdruskinis · July 2012

We use a spoon on yogurt every day. I don't want to think of what he'd look like if we didn't!

Melissa2216 · July 2012

Baby4OT:
I still spoon feed messy foods most of the time. She often wants to take the spoon from me and put it in her mouth so I let her do that, but for some of the messier dinners I just do it. I know I need to let her do it more often, but sometimes I just can't deal with the mess.

This for me too. I know I'm behind on this and the sippy cup. I usually keep the milk cup away from him at mealtime and just give him sips every once in a while. If I give him the cup, he just slams it on the tray and then throws it to the floor.

amberpro · July 2012

If we're at home, I usually only spoon feed him things like oatmeal and yogurt. Even then, I'll let him try to use a spoon or fork to finish things off. Now if I feed him too late or he's in a lazy mood, I'll take my fork and feed him here and there while we're eating so I know he's getting food.

When we're out, anything messy warrants a spoon. For example, at a friend's last night, I spoon fed him cheesy potato casserole. At home, I would have let him eat it himself. When I'm not at home (or someplace like my parents'), it's not worth the trouble dealing with the mess.

egpitt22 · July 2012

I spoon feed cottage cheese, yogurt and applesauce...everything else he just goes to town on. He'll occasionally try to use a spoon or fork on things, but usually just gets frustrated and abandons it.

MommaG123 · July 2012

We don't spoon feed anything. If we have something like cottage cheese, yogurt etc I will give her her own spoon. She is pretty messy with it and about 40% of the time I have to help her load it for her to get anything on there.

OpheliaChem · July 2012

If DD won't eat something with her fingers, we try using a spoon. DD often eats more if we feed her (putting food in her mouth or using a spoon) than on her own. Yogurt is the only food she eats with a spoon on a daily basis. I haven't tried a fork yet...perhaps I should get one out and see what she thinks of it!

How often are you still spoon feeding LO? Not including purees.

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