I’ve never had a problem feeding Noah, he lets me feed him with a spoon/fork, no problemo… I have never really questioned this method until recently when I suddenly thought to myself maybe a bit of independence wouldn’t hurt him.
When baby número 2 swings by it will be nice if Noah can feed himself and be a “big boy”, so that mummy can be feeding newborn or dealing with what ever demands are on me at the time. I can imagine breast feeding and Noah feeding would be quite a pickle! Especially if we have the whole baby cries – Noah is going to cry situation going on. Fingers crossed we don’t get that.
Noah has always been pretty good at feeding himself food with his fingers, I have no worries about his hand/eye coordination but when it comes to using a fork to pick things up or a spoon and a yoghurt scenario I wasn’t sure how it would play out… But to my delight he was pretty darn perfect at it first time!
I gave him lasagne for dinner, followed by his favourite yogurts and to finish off a bowl of fruit and he seemed to enjoy mealtime a lot more with this new found independence. He managed to eat his yoghurt and get a lot around his face (which doesn’t bother me at all) and his spoon feeding skills got better with each mouthful.. He seems to have a put the spoon in the pot, dip it, take spoon and spin it into mouth approach. 🙂 As for the lasagne, well it would seem to anyone that didn’t know, Noah had been using a fork for his whole life as he just picked it all up and shoved it in his mouth…
It was a proud mummy moment, I’m glad he just takes to these things… He is such a delight to have (95% of the time haha)!
Love the yoghurt photo, Noah looks so happy. Lovely post Sonia xx
haha bless him Youngling is the same with food, even now. He still likes mummys help now and then. It can get a little taxing but as long as he feeds I don’t mind helping. His fav is pasta, and spag bol etc. He’s great with yoghurts now thankfully. lol xx