https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:23:24 +0000 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:27:37 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.10 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=25091 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=634060&title=food-that-needs-chewing#634060 Author: freckle
Subject: 25091
Posted: 12 March 2009 at 7:27am

Hey Flissty - increasing the lumps in the puree will encourage chewing... moving to more mashed rather than puree... then once he can handle the mashed move to chopped. ]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:27:37 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=634060&title=food-that-needs-chewing#634060 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=633315&title=food-that-needs-chewing#633315 Author: FreeSpirit
Subject: 25091
Posted: 11 March 2009 at 8:46am

I'm having a similar problem - she wants to eat the finger foods, takes great big bites, and tries to swallow them without chewing. On the upside, she adores anything she can feed herself. A nice piece of steak cut into "sticks", kumara chips thrown in the oven while I cook dinner for the menfolk, bits of toast (she likes them plain!), pieces of avacado or banana (I like these as even when she forgets to chew they slide down without much gagging), cooked carrot sticks (so they're soft).
I think that we just have to wait for them to figure out the chewing thing, I'm sure it will come with time.
I did help elizabeth to begin with by putting the end of whatever she wanted to eat in her mouth, and she would grab the other end and pull it out to look at.]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:46:39 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=633315&title=food-that-needs-chewing#633315 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=633242&title=food-that-needs-chewing#633242 Author: kiwikid
Subject: 25091
Posted: 11 March 2009 at 3:11am

I reckon Hayden would eat just about anything as long as I put vegemite on it!!!

I think its just persistences, his baby rice crackers used to end up in a sticky mess under his chin and down the side of the high chair but now we just have messy fingers but most of it is actually consumed.

We are still working on it though, I'm going to try baking sweet potato and regular potato wedges and see how he likes them - should be easy to grab hold of and eat.]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:11:40 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=633242&title=food-that-needs-chewing#633242 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=632040&title=food-that-needs-chewing#632040 Author: Shezamumof3
Subject: 25091
Posted: 09 March 2009 at 2:53pm

I started off giving Caden very ripe banana, I would break it in half and give him one half at a time, and he learnt to chew that way. Then the other day I introduced him to bread soliders with marmite on them, and he did really well with them and he chews them with his gums, today he had them with apricot jam.

Also, cubes of potato and pumpkin, and pea's, Caden LOVES LOVES pea's, he enjoys picking them up and he mushes them in his mouth.

It just takes them a while to learn how to chew with their gums, Caden still gets half his food down the side of the high chair and in his lap. I just pick it up and put it back on his try.

Edited by Sheza]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:53:35 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=632040&title=food-that-needs-chewing#632040 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=632025&title=food-that-needs-chewing#632025 Author: Glow
Subject: 25091
Posted: 09 March 2009 at 2:37pm

Yea he'll get there- practice makes perfect

Mini Quiche, pizza, muffins, scones, vege pieces, sliced meat]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:37:56 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=632025&title=food-that-needs-chewing#632025 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=632019&title=food-that-needs-chewing#632019 Author: Maya
Subject: 25091
Posted: 09 March 2009 at 2:29pm

Lil miss likes milk arrowroot biscuits, they kind of dissolve in her mouth lol. I give her those Mother Earth fruit stick thingies too but only about 1/2 actually goes down. And she's been having a slice of luncheon and bread and butter for lunch which she seems to cope with okay.

Oh and soft fruits like apricots, banana, melon etc. ]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:29:49 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=632019&title=food-that-needs-chewing#632019 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=631922&title=food-that-needs-chewing#631922 Author: .Mel
Subject: 25091
Posted: 09 March 2009 at 12:55pm

What about toast with vegemite/marmite on - I used to double toast it and take the crusts off.

Bits of pear are always good too.]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:55:09 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=631922&title=food-that-needs-chewing#631922 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=631909&title=food-that-needs-chewing#631909 Author: fire_engine
Subject: 25091
Posted: 09 March 2009 at 12:48pm

He's refusing puree and only wants things he can hold He can make fast work of biscotti - maybe he'll just have to live on that. ]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:48:52 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=631909&title=food-that-needs-chewing#631909 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=631875&title=food-that-needs-chewing#631875 Author: busyissy
Subject: 25091
Posted: 09 March 2009 at 12:17pm

He'll get there he's probably just not ready yet. Keep offering things even if he doesn't chew and sollow them he at least he is still being exposed to new flavours and textures.]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:17:44 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=631875&title=food-that-needs-chewing#631875 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=631872&title=food-that-needs-chewing#631872 Author: fire_engine
Subject: 25091
Posted: 09 March 2009 at 12:14pm

I'm starting to introduce non-pureed food - e.g. cruskits, bread, fritters .... Most of it ends up in the folds of the highchair and Daniel doesn't seem to know exactly what to do with it. Is there anything I can do to help him 'learn' how to eat it or is it a matter of just giving it to him regularly and eventually he'll learn what to do? I'm pretty sure it's the latter but thought I'd ask - I need to know he won't still be on a puree in 18 years ]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:14:39 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25091&PID=631872&title=food-that-needs-chewing#631872