Comments on: Feeding highs and woes

By: Barbara Schantz

Barbara Schantz — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:27:55 +0000

May I offer a suggestion for Max and for other special needs children? Though originally designed with the intent of helping parents feed babies using only one hand, my invention, the patented Baby Dipper bowl has proven to be extremely beneficial to children who are learning to feed themselves and has also received some interest from folks in the special needs/occupational therapy community. I’d be happy to contribute one or more sample Baby Dipper bowls to 5 Minutes for Special Needs so that we can help out many children who need help feeding themselves. Please contact me at info (at) babydipper (dot) com if you are interested. BTW, Erica from 5 Minutes for Mom has already reviewed the Baby Dipper bowl, so you can read her comments about it there. Ellen, congratulations on Max’s recent strides in self-feeding!

By: Susan (5 Minutes for Mom)

Susan (5 Minutes for Mom) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:19:18 +0000

Awesome photo!

That must have been a challenge for it to take an hour to feed him as a baby… wow!

How wonderful that he has progressed this far and will keep on going.

By: Vanessa Infanzon

Vanessa Infanzon — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:56:42 +0000

I think I am holding Ben back when it comes to eating independently – I am terrible at letting him do it on his own. You give me some inspiration to just let him get in there and so it. Thanks for the reminder.

By: cPmOMA

cPmOMA — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:56:18 +0000

That is a priceless picture! Takes my breath away! Beautiful

By: CristyLynn

CristyLynn — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:06:25 +0000

Way to go, Max! (and Mom and Dad for helping him learn!)

By: Territory Mom

Territory Mom — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:20:22 +0000

This is great!! He’s on his way to independence.

By: Azaera

Azaera — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:02:19 +0000

I found it surprising when Skyler started feeding himself that he could find the cheerios on his highchair, the opthalmologist had said that it’s impossible to tell just how much sight he actually has, so when he first started picking things up without our help I was amazed. Sometimes though I am not sure how much he is seeing because he knows there is food there but he seems to feel for a bit too, which is obviously okay, he will find it however he finds it.

Anyway point being our children sometimes surprise us by doing things we thought they’d never be able to, or things we thought would take forever. Hopefully one day Max will figure it out for himself.