雞腿整隻來，更有滋味！
星期四, 2月 23rd, 2012 5:10 pm | By Stephanie Woo
幾天前，老公帶我們全家到Le Pain Quotidien吃午飯，是紐約市裡一家很棒的有機餐館。隔壁桌有個兩歲半的孩子正在吃瓶裝的糊狀食物(baby food)，而我們家13個月大的雙生女兒則在享用牛角包，柳橙汁，以及火腿起司法式鹹派(quiche lorraine)。
其實，我也有可能是那個給瓶裝食物的母親，如果不是在3個月前，我的母親把我罵醒的話！當我的孩子們十個月大的時候，我還給她們吃食物處理機打過的糊狀食物呢！
我媽媽﹐Ms. Lam, 叮嚀我﹕“給她們吃整個蘋果，讓她們啃整隻雞腿，或給她們吃整個餃子也行。食物要吃大塊的﹐不要幫她們切碎，讓他們直接咬下去!”。於是她們11個月大的時候，我便開始照著做。來看看結果如何吧！
要吃一整粒苹果需要異常的意志力和“牙齒力”。
Brooke坐在沙發上花了半個小時吃這個苹果。13個月大的寶寶能吃掉這麽多苹果是不是有一點嚇人!
長長的烏冬面又好吃又好玩
一個雞肉餃不夠﹐再來一個吧！
雞腿真好吃！
整個蘋果拿來咬或整隻雞腿拿來啃，跟吃切碎過的食物相比，感覺非常的不一樣！讓你的孩子有全新的經驗，體驗成人吃東西的樂趣吧！小孩對於大人的世界充滿好奇 心，不妨讓她們嚐一嚐滋味吧！小孩都喜歡自己動手，如果您的小孩會挑食，提供她們可以自己動手拿的食物，會有意像不到的效果！
The title cracked me up. My little girl, now 16 months, somehow weaned herself off mushy foods when she was 9 months. She refused to eat anything puréed or mashed and would try to grab food off our plates. We ended up getting one of those ikea art aprons for kids and let her go to town during meal times. Noodles are her fav too! I think it'd be hilarious to watch her eat a chicken wing .. But we see solid pieces of noodles or spinach in her poop after that. My mum/grandmother thinks that kids can't digest the food this way and that I should be feeding her brain food like fish congee but she would not take any of that. Oh well
I totally agree with the post, but have a problem with my son Jackson. If you give him an entire graham cracker square or large piiece of bread, he will literally shove the entire thing in his mouth, same thing with multiple pieces of bread on a plate, and then proceed to choke on it. As much as I want him to learn to chew 1 piece, swallow, repeat, he won't do that, and I don't enjoy doing the heimlich maneuver. Suggestions?
I know exactly what choking noise you're talking about because my girls did that too and I'm going to share with you what I did. I'm not suggesting you do this, I am just sharing my experience. When that happened to my girls, I did not react immediately. Instead, I gave them an extra 10 seconds to see what would happen. For us, they were able to cough it up by themselves without a problem. And eventually, after they did it enough times, they stopped doing it. And they learned to eat more slowly. It was part of the process of learning to eat. Again, I'm not suggesting anyone to do this because it is important to watch your children very carefully, but it has been my experience that when they make that choking noise, it doesn't always mean they are actually choking (though of course it can mean that too so the parents have to observe their children and make the call), but I always gave them a little extra time to cough up what they ate if they needed it. After we passed that stage, I was able to move on to giving them bigger things to chew on.
Hi, just discovered your blog. My little girl just turned 1. she has been eating pieces of food like turkey, pork, chicken and cooked veggies. My concern about letting her eat a whole apple or bigger things is that she only has 4 teeth. Does it matter? I would love to give her a whole apple or a piece of bread but worried about the chocking has she also tends to put an entire piece in her mouth. What do you think?
Thank you.
I’m going to say something. Just keep in mind that I’m not a doctor, so use this information at your own risk. God was ingenious and kind when he invented throats for infants and toddlers; he gave them throats that are much shorter than adults. Because of this, babies and toddlers who are learning to eat don’t choke easily. Remember, they CAN choke, so you need to watch them carefully, but keep in mind that they don’t choke EASILY. A lot of times it will LOOK like they are choking. Give them 15 seconds to get the food up or down. That being said, you still need to watch them, as I know any parent reading this blog is doing! Don’t withhold whole pieces of food because you don’t think they can eat it. They can. As for whole apples, you can definitely give 1-year-old a whole apple, but I would probably peel it first. Four teeth is more than she needs to work on that apple!
I’ve been feeding my 9 month daughter chunky food too. but we see solid pieces of carrot or pea in her poop and my mom seems to think that her little stomach can’t handle bigger pieces and I should mash up the food. I keep giving her chunky or finger food anyway cuz I think it’s important to let her practice per pincher skill and she can get more nutrition from the milk if not from the food.