LIFamilies.com - Long Island, NY


RSS
Articles Business Directory Blog Real Estate Community Forum Shop My Family Contests

Log In Chat Index Search Rules Lingo Create Account

Quick navigation:   

Any tips for spoon feeding?

Posted By Message

BabyAvocado
Happy New Year

Member since 5/05

17334 total posts

Name:

Any tips for spoon feeding?

We started Jake on cereal this week and he just cries and lets the cereal pool at the front of his mouth. I knew he wouldn't get it immediately but are they supposed to cry??

I tried feeding him at different times of the day to try and catch him when he's least cranky.

Any other tips?

Posted 10/30/05 5:40 PM
 
Long Island Weddings
Long Island's Largest Bridal Resource

KPtoys
I'm getting old

Member since 5/05

8688 total posts

Name:
Karen

Re: Any tips for spoon feeding?

can you try 1st thing in the am, maybe give him a spoon to play with

Posted 10/30/05 5:55 PM
 

Calla
My girls

Member since 7/05

4303 total posts

Name:

Re: Any tips for spoon feeding?

Sounds to me like he isn't ready. I'd just wait and try again another time. It shouldn't be a struggle.

Posted 10/30/05 8:43 PM
 

justthe4ofus
I hate hypocrites!!!!!

Member since 5/05

6905 total posts

Name:

Re: Any tips for spoon feeding?

You can also try making the cereal a little more liquidy. I know in the beginning if it was too mushy and not liquidy enough then my daughter wouldn't eat it. But he just might not be ready yet.

Posted 10/30/05 10:01 PM
 

Stefanie

Member since 5/05

23599 total posts

Name:
Stefanie

Re: Any tips for spoon feeding?

My doctor said to feed him between bottle feedings...not when he's extremely hungry for a bottle. I also fed Jared with a spoon of liquidy cereal and then plugged the bottle in his mouth.

Posted 10/31/05 9:00 AM
 

babybelly
LIF Infant

Member since 7/05

189 total posts

Name:

Re: Any tips for spoon feeding?

Apply a little bit of pressure on his tongue with the back of the spoon as you present the food in his moth. Give him a second to suckle the food off.

Posted 10/31/05 11:13 AM
 

BabyAvocado
Happy New Year

Member since 5/05

17334 total posts

Name:

Re: Any tips for spoon feeding?

Posted by Stefanie

My doctor said to feed him between bottle feedings...not when he's extremely hungry for a bottle. I also fed Jared with a spoon of liquidy cereal and then plugged the bottle in his mouth.



I tried both of these things already. Giving him the bottle just upsets him more because I have to take it away to try and give him more cereal.


Posted by Calla

Sounds to me like he isn't ready. I'd just wait and try again another time. It shouldn't be a struggle.



This is what I'm thinking, DH says we just have to keep trying until he "gets" it that this is food and he's supposed to swallow it. I, on the other, rather not push him and think that maybe we should put it off another week or two....

Posted 10/31/05 1:58 PM
 

Boobobunny
Live in the Present

Member since 5/05

3572 total posts

Name:
Dannielle

Re: Any tips for spoon feeding?

he may not be ready....but you can also try putting a little food on the tip of your finger...if he doesn't take that...than he isn't ready.

It truely is a switch that gets turned on from one day to the next when they are ready.

Posted 10/31/05 2:02 PM
 

BabyAvocado
Happy New Year

Member since 5/05

17334 total posts

Name:

Re: Any tips for spoon feeding?

Posted by Boobobunny

It truely is a switch that gets turned on from one day to the next when they are ready.



Wow really...

We decided to take a break from trying for a couple of days and then resume and see how it goes.

It's funny because this morning when I was bringing his bottle toward his mouth, he looked at it and actually opened his mouth in anticipation of it...it was the first time he did that...so I guess he's on his way, just not quite there yet. Chat Icon

Posted 11/1/05 9:24 AM
 
 

Potentially Related Topics:

Topic Posted By Started Replies Forum
Need tips on spoon feeding sunny 5/11/06 6 Parenting
Any Breast Feeding Tips? Dos and donts? MrsJ 4/21/06 17 Parenting
spoon feeding- Is there some sort of trick to it? bellarina 6/28/06 4 Parenting
Calling All Exclusively Breast Feeding Moms KangaMom 8/18/06 21 Parenting
any tips to prepare for a BIG interview....update I'm back Beth 7/20/06 27 Families Helping Families ™
10 tips to reduce fat Lisa 3/22/06 3 Dining In or Out
 
Quick navigation:   
Currently 245649 users on the LIFamilies.com Chat
New Businesses
1 More Rep
Carleton Hall of East Islip
J&A Building Services
LaraMae Health Coaching
Sonic Wellness
Julbaby Photography LLC
Ideal Uniforms
Teresa Geraghty Photography
Camelot Dream Homes
Long Island Wedding Boutique
MB Febus- Rodan & Fields
Camp Harbor
Market America-Shop.com
ACM Basement Waterproofing
Travel Tom

      Follow LIWeddings on Facebook

      Follow LIFamilies on Twitter
Long Island Bridal Shows