鸡腿整只来，更有滋味！
星期四, 二月 23rd, 2012 5:10 pm | By Stephanie Woo
几天前，老公带我们全家到Le Pain Quotidien吃午饭，是纽约市里一家很棒的有机餐馆。隔壁桌有个两岁半的孩子正在吃瓶装的糊状食物(baby food)，而我们家13个月大的双生女儿则在享用牛角包，柳橙汁，以及火腿起司法式咸派(quiche lorraine)。
其实，我也有可能是那个给瓶装食物的母亲，如果不是在3个月前，我的母亲把我骂醒的话！当我的孩子们十个月大的时候，我还给她们吃食物处理机打过的糊状食物呢！
我妈妈﹐Ms. Lam, 叮咛我﹕“给她们吃整个苹果，让她们啃整只鸡腿，或给她们吃整个饺子也行。食物要吃大块的﹐不要帮她们切碎，让他们直接咬下去!”。于是她们11个月大的时候，我便开始照着做。来看看结果如何吧！
要吃一整粒苹果需要异常的意志力和“牙齿力”。
Brooke坐在沙发上花了半个小时吃这个苹果。13个月大的宝宝能吃掉这么多苹果是不是有一点吓人!
长长的乌冬面又好吃又好玩
一个鸡肉饺不够﹐再来一个吧！
鸡腿真好吃！
整个苹果拿来咬或整只鸡腿拿来啃，跟吃切碎过的食物相比，感觉非常的不一样！让你的孩子有全新的经验，体验成人吃东西的乐趣吧！小孩对于大人的世界充满好奇 心，不妨让她们尝一尝滋味吧！小孩都喜欢自己动手，如果您的小孩会挑食，提供她们可以自己动手拿的食物，会有意像不到的效果！
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.