One of the hardest parts of being the parent of a baby is finding healthy food your baby will eat without a fight. Babies can be very picky about tastes and textures. This can make finding the balance between what they need and what they like difficult to manage at times.
Make Your Job as a Parent Easier
There are a few ways that you can make mealtime easier for you and your young child. Sometimes your child is more likely to eat healthier foods if they can feed themselves. Buying food with certain accessories will allow your child to be more independent and enjoy their healthy meals more.
Grain-free Puffs
Puffs are great for young children because they are easy for them to pick up and place in their mouths. Puffs also dissolve quickly so which makes them ideal for small ones with few or no teeth.
When Choosing grain-free puffs make sure they do not include any sugar and only have natural ingredients. Bonus points if they only include organic ingredients and bone broth.
Baby Food Pouches
Baby food pouches are one of the best inventions to help make feeding young ones easy. These pouches are easy for small hands to hold and squeeze their dinner straight into their mouths. These pouches are filled with a complete meal that is fully pureed.
When you are shopping for baby food pouches be sure to only purchase products that include ethically sourced ingredients. You also want to make sure they are 100% natural you do not want your baby eating preservatives and chemicals.
Teething Biscuits
Teething biscuits can be great to give a fussy baby between meals. They provide them with a treat that will satisfy them and help them to soothe their gums as their teeth start to come in.
When shopping for teething biscuits you want to make sure that you only purchase ones that are grain-free and made with all-natural ingredients. You want to make sure that they are not made with processed white sugar as well. If they are sweetened look for ones made with natural sweeteners like honey or agave.
Let Your Young Child Be Independent When Possible
Your child we let you know when they are ready to start feeding themselves make sure you are giving them all the chances you can to develop this skill. The act of placing puffs in front of them and making them feed themselves will help them greatly in developing their fine motor skills. It helps them to become more spatially aware.
Developing fine motor skills and understand how they spatial fit into the world are very important milestones. This is one of the main reasons you need to allow your child to have independence when it comes to feeding themselves. Make sure that you buy items you know they can use to improve these skills.
Baby food pouches help them to learn how pressure can be used to release an item. They can figure out how to squeeze the puree out of the bag and get it into their mouth. This will be messy when they start but allow them to learn and yes that will include them making some messes.
The Take-Away
Now that you know your baby learning to feed themselves is important to their developmental milestones, make sure that you purchase items that are setting them up for success. Allow them to make messes and learn how to get food out of containers and into their mouths.
Take a deep breath and accept they will make a few messes. You will honestly miss those messes because before you know it those babies that are making messes will be teenagers. Enjoy them being young while you can they will be grown before you know it.