So, This Is A New One - WTH
So mom of 8 month old comes today and once again told me what she is giving her baby to knaw on. A carrot! She told me the same thing a couple of weeks ago and I voiced my opinion. He has 4 front teeth. Two on top, two on bottom. Why would you let him knaw on a carrot? She came in today and said he was knawing on one yesterday and a piece broke off and she fished it out of his mouth. I am blown away. Does she really want him to choke? What is wrong with people?
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I did it with my own kids.
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Originally Posted by happymom: |
Originally Posted by lovemykidstoo: |
Originally Posted by lovemykidstoo: |
Originally Posted by happymom: |
Originally Posted by lovemykidstoo: |
They have those teething net things you can put them in if concerned about chocking but it's really good for teething.
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Originally Posted by tenderhearts: |
Originally Posted by happymom: I wish I were brave enough to do this type of weaning with my other day care kids. Maybe then they would eat actual food instead of sucking pouches.:rolleyes: |
Originally Posted by lovemykidstoo: |
I used to give my boys cold carrots when they were teething. I was always with them and paying attention if they bit off a chunk.
I guess to each their own. I would never have asked a caregiver to do the same though, and I certainly wouldn't do it fo a DC child in my care. But if moms comfortable doing it on her own time then that's fine! |
Originally Posted by Play Care: |
Originally Posted by boy_mom: |
Originally Posted by tenderhearts: |
Originally Posted by happymom: It's actually really unfair to expect your caregiver to be at least a little bit on board as there is NO such thing as at least a little bit liable....kwim? Imagine if a child did choke and die ....I highly doubt the DHS and/or the law would be accepting of a provider claiming the parent expected her to be at least a little bit on board with it so it's only a little bit the provider's fault. MY watch, MY responsibility. PERIOD. |
Originally Posted by boy_mom: |
Originally Posted by lovemykidstoo: |
Originally Posted by CityGarden: As for giving raw or cold veggie for BLW, that is not how I practiced it. For me, they would get extra soft, diced veggie, avocado, egg, ect. The only thing I served raw were fruits, but they were diced very small, with no peel attached, and it was mostly apples and pears. Oranges and grapes were too risky for me. Everyone has their own Comfort level, but I would have a hard time giving raw carrots to a baby with teeth. I'm not even a fan of giving those little snacks that Gerber makes, like rice cakes and such. If you add moisture, they don't necessarily dissolve, but can formulate into a little cement ball of food. I've had a close call 2 times and that was the end of those.:) plus they have very little nutritional value. |
Originally Posted by Blackcat31: |
Originally Posted by Blackcat31: |
Originally Posted by happymom: I've looked at the top 10 choking risks for children and every single one has raw vegetables on it. |
Originally Posted by lovemykidstoo: |
Originally Posted by lovemykidstoo: |
Originally Posted by happymom: I usually skip baby foods all together and encourage "real" food. The results are so much more positive than those kids that aren't allowed to experience textures and such. It's important that parents and providers work TOWARDS a common goal. :) I thought you meant you'd pull your child if your provider wouldn't give your baby a raw carrot just because you as the parent does/said to... :ouch: :o |
Originally Posted by Blackcat31: |
I practice BLW in my daycare but NEVER with raw fruits or vegetables. Everything is soft Cooked so if they do get a chunk, they can mush it up. I would never give a raw carrot to a baby.
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Originally Posted by Indoorvoice: |
Nope, no way! Raw carrots have no business in my business.
Luckily I'm licensed in Denmark, where it is highly recommended NOT to give the under 3s raw carrots or similar hard fruit/vegetables. But I wouldn't do it anyway. I attended a First Aid course once where they explained that a carrot "splinches" into such tiny pieces that they can find their way into the lungs where it is almost if not entirely impossible to operate them out! A bigger piece of carrot is so hard that a baby simply does not have the lung capacity to cough it up! |
Originally Posted by Jamie: |
Originally Posted by lovemykidstoo: Here's a great printout about common foods and choking hazards https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites...upplementA.pdf |
Originally Posted by Blackcat31: |
Originally Posted by mommyneedsadayoff: I also hate those F'ing pouches with a passion. Tube yogurt teach your kid to eat real food, dagnabbit. |
Originally Posted by daycarediva: And just for the record, raw carrots are not part of BLW in case anyone is reading this thread for food information. I did BLW for both my kids and my DCKs and raw carrots are absolutely not part of it :) |
Originally Posted by Ariana: |
Originally Posted by Ariana: |
I wonder how area specific these pouches are....
I've yet to have a kid in care that uses them. I've got a couple parents that take the easy way out of everything and even they don't use them. Thank goodness! They seem like a horrible option/choice for many reasons. |
Originally Posted by Blackcat31: |
Originally Posted by Blackcat31: |
Originally Posted by Cat Herder: |
The pouch food is interesting to me because I actually met this woman who was one of the very first in that business. She made a company, she made the pouches, she sold them at whole foods, she was looking for investors at an event that I was attending, also looking for investors. She told us all, this is going to be huge. The pouch market is going to blast off.
There was only one other kind at the time. That company only had two flavors and they were sold in the produce fridge by like pre-cut fruit bowls. Those pouches weren't shelf stable. Hers were shelf stable and she didn't get more funding, I don't think. Then it blasted off! I have to look up her company. I can't remember the name right now! Wonder if she sold the rights or anything. Hope she made some of that big pouch money! |
For me it is not about nutrition it is about lazy parenting and kids not learning how to eat with utensils or learning about textures of foods. I fed pouches to my own kids but it was on the go snacks for the car and I made them myself!
I had one kid who was breastfeeding 5x a day, drinking YOP yogurts and eating pouches when she started at my house at 12 months. Would happily gobble up a blueberry pouch but not actual blueberries? I have a child currently who is 16 months old, no idea what a utensil is for, only eats bread type things, zero veggies. She is starving all the time! I have had to buy pouches just to get her through the day while I transition her onto more solids. The last 3 kids have been like this. I have one 12 month old that has no idea what to do with a pouch! happyface |
My FP encourages BLW and I use it :)
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