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Toddlers: 24 Months+
XP - If you feed DC any sandwiches, graham crackers, soup, yogurt, or oatmeal - questions for you!
XP - Questions about feeding my 10 month old.
Ok, I know that is a totally random list of foods but I have questions about them. DS hates me feeding him foods now so I am really trying to do all table foods.
- If you feed sandwiches, do you feed them whole or cut them up into small pieces? If you cut them into small pieces, how do you keep it "together", i.e. the bread, meat, and cheese not falling out from being cut into small bits. If you cut them into small bits, won't it still be kind of thick for them to eat?
- Graham crackers, or any other crackers for that matter - do you break them into small bits or do you just let DC gum/nibble on a chunk of it. He gets mum mums and biter biscuits and does fine with those, but those dissolve fairly easily.
- Soup - I see lots of people feed their kids soup. Do you feed this to DC or does DC feed themselves with a spoon. Same thing with yogurt and oatmeal for that matter. It is a wrestling match with the spoon but there is no way he can feed himself yet and he does not want me feeding him.
- Oatmeal - do you feed DC adult oatmeal or the baby cereal stuff. DS does not like the baby cereal but I was wondering if it is still too early for regular oatmeal. That is, if he would let me feed it to him.
Thanks!
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Re: XP - If you feed DC any sandwiches, graham crackers, soup, yogurt, or oatmeal - questions for you!
Sandwiches - I don't actually feed him a sandwich, just all the ingredients for one. I tear everything up into small pieces.
Crackers - I give him the entire thing. For graham crackers I break them where they're "perforated" and give him a square. Graham crackers and Nilla wafers are the best because they dissolve like puffs.
Soup - DS doesn't get alot of soup, but when he does I spoon feed him. He really doesn't do well with being spoon fed anymore, so he rarely gets soup anymore. Same for yogurt or anything else that has to be spoon fed. It's just gotten so difficult so I feed him as many finger foods as possible. He does better at daycare for some reason, so he gets more things like yogurt and oatmeal there. He eats regular oatmeal, not baby cereal.
I understand your pain with the spoon feeding thing. Meal times have really become a pain for us. For some reason he does great at daycare though, so I try not to get to frustrated with him at home. Also, the Gerber yogurt bites are a great alternative to regular yogurt. They're just freeze dried and don't have any additives, so it's just like giving them yogurt.
- If you feed sandwiches, do you feed them whole or cut them up into small pieces? The only sandwiches I feed her are grilled cheese. At first I cut them in to small pieces but now I'll fix her 1/2 a sandwich and cut it in to thirds. It's not that she can't handle it whole, but if I cut it up that keeps her from feeding the entire thing to the dog. I haven't given her other sandwiches because they would completely fall apart. I'll often give her a piece of bread, some deli meat, and some cheese for lunch but it's not put together in to a sandwich.
- Graham crackers, or any other crackers for that matter - do you break them into small bits or do you just let DC gum/nibble on a chunk of it. I give her the whole thing. At first I kept a close eye on her to make sure that she didn't get too big of a piece. Now that's not an issue.
- Soup - I see lots of people feed their kids soup. Do you feed this to DC or does DC feed themselves with a spoon. I feed it to her. If there is a lot of stuff on the spoon and very little broth then I'll let her take the spoon from me. If there is a lot of broth then she doesn't get the spoon because she would just spill it all over herself. For yogurt I'll put it on the spoon and she feeds herself.
- Oatmeal - do you feed DC adult oatmeal or the baby cereal stuff. I haven't given DD oatmeal since we stopped feeding babyfood. If I were to give it to her now, she would get the adult kind.
One thing that helped transition from me feeding her to her feeding herself was to use multiple utensils. I would load up a spoon and hand it to her. I had another one ready to go and, when she was done eating off of the first one, I would switch them out. She always wanted to have one in her hand so she felt like she was doing it on her own. This allowed me to put food on the utensil while she was busy eating off of the other one.
sandwiches - cut into smaller pieces - we only do grilled cheese so the melted cheese keeps it together
crackers - he gets them whole
yogurt - we feed it to him
Sandwhiches were a giant pain for us. Plus Jack didn't really like them. I would cut them into tiny squares before moving up to bigger triangles. I would smoosh each piece together to keep it from falling apart. I hated doing sandwhiches. Did I already say this? lol
I always bought Jack Annie's Organics Bunny Grahams. At 10m old I would snap those in half. Jack was older when he started eating foods like that...I think.
Soup - I only feed soup to Jack that I make myself due to the sodium content in most soups. Unless it's lobster bisque. I let him have that. I fed him soup with mainly veggies and a tiny bit of broth on the spoon. Not nearly the same amount of broth I would eat off my own spoon.
Oatmeal - I fed Jack the Gerber oatmeal with DHA until he was like 14m. It was just easier because he liked it. I moved on to Quaker old fashioned oats after that. I add in applesauce and cinnamon, frozen or fresh blueberries and cinnamon, smashed banana and cinnamon to flavor it. Oatmeal has a pretty interesting texture. If your little one will eat it then go for it.
I always gave Jack his own spoon and I had a spoon as well. That way he could 'practice' feeding himself and I was able to actually get the food into his mouth. This solved a lot of battles for me. If he wanted my spoon, then I'd give it to him and take his.
Katie: 1/16/08 2lbs. 15oz.
Abby & Emily: 12/31/10 6lbs. 2oz. & 5lbs. 7oz.
i cut ds's sandwiches into small squares (except for grilled cheese i leave a little bigger) and they do fall apart but even if they don't, he pulls them apart anyway. it gets messy but i let him go. i let him feed himself a lot of things like pieces of pasta, veggies ( i just put on his tray), sandwiches, crackers (i leave most whole), etc.
soups, yogurts, oatmeal i feed him but i too give him his own spoon to practice. for the oatmeal/cereal i will give him a full spoonful and let him try to feed himself. with meats (turkey, chicken, beef) i put a few pieces on a baby fork for him and let him feed himself. he's doing very well but its still messy.