cucumber for gnawing

hbrooks88974 · July 2014

Lucie's List mentioned this in my most recent e-mail. LO is 6 months and teething. Anyone use cucumber sticks?

So peel them? Take out the seeds? And cut them into sticks? My fear is cutting them the wrong way.

hbrooks88974 · July 2014

That's what we did yesterday...sliced it. They also recommended baby carrots, and I thought choking hazard immediately. Oh parenting.....

We have the mesh feeders also. I'm excited about using those.

LBib · July 2014

We do peeled strips without seeds to start. Once they can chew a little bit we give thinner strips. Whole pickles were also a hit.

jorkz821 · July 2014

We did sticks but not frozen. I guess you could peel them/seed them if you wanted but we didn't. Stick size was like 1/6 - 1/8 of the cucumber diameter if that makes sense.

jorkz821 · July 2014

No baby carrots unless cooked, I'd think.

jorkz821 · July 2014

LBib said:
We do peeled strips without seeds to start. Once they can chew a little bit we give thinner strips. Whole pickles were also a hit.

Pickles are extremely high in salt. I probably would not give to a baby.

jorkz821 · July 2014

WhoCanItBeNow said:

jorkz821 said:

LBib said:
We do peeled strips without seeds to start. Once they can chew a little bit we give thinner strips. Whole pickles were also a hit.
Pickles are extremely high in salt. I probably would not give to a baby.

Pin a rose on your nose.

DS loved pickles as well. Unless an idiot made them with too much salt, it's fine. That was our main go to with him if we went somewhere with a buffet.

Dude. Regular commercial pickles have like 1000mg per pickle. So no, I wouldn't recommend feeding that to a 6 month old baby.

LBib · July 2014

Watching salt intake =/= don't give a kid a pickle. Now if their entire diet consisted of salted cod, pickles, salt and vinegar chips, and saltine crackers you may get the side eye from me.

SuperTreesa · July 2014

Team Give a Baby a pickle.

My girls LOVE pickles. And anything made with vinegar really. I avoid salt in most things for babies, but I make an exception for pickles.

LBib · July 2014

Pickles 4 lyfe!

Monkeybabe · July 2014

I gave Z cucumber sticks all the time. She loved them

JunkieBrewster · July 2014

We always just did whole carrots, but we also did BLW and he had plenty of teeth by 6 months.

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Monkeybabe · July 2014

Now that I'm on my computer, Z is 6.5 months in this photo.

ETA: Z didn't get a single tooth until after 10 months and could not break the skin, but liked to rub it on her gums.

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