Guest guest Posted July 6, 2002 Report Share Posted July 6, 2002 Hello All. I gave my 13 month old a bowl of young soy beans and she absolutely loved them. Well, today, her diaper was full of the whole beans as they didn't break down at all. Here's the problem - she's at the " independent stage " and won't let me feed her, so when I blend the beans and try to feed her with a spoon she refuses. My questions - if the beans are coming out whole doesn't that just defeat the purpose? Meaning, she's probably not absorping any nutrients is she? Does blending the food to smaller pieces make it easier for her to digest it? Thanks, Sonia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2002 Report Share Posted July 8, 2002 Sonia - I'm not sure if she is able to absorb anything from the beans even though they emerge intact from the process. However, if she wants to feed herself independently, as does my 13 month old, I would just let her. It encourages her and helps her develop a taste for the food. If she isn't allowed to eat them whole and won't eat them off a spoon, by the time she is able to digest them completely, she may not want to eat them because they are a " foreign food " to her. I think that at 13 months a lot of nutrition still comes from other sources besides solid foods, and much of what they are doing is just getting the hang of eating. My only other thought is to be sure that the beans are not a choking hazard. Karen - iucsonia Saturday, July 06, 2002 2:02 PM Edamame question Hello All. I gave my 13 month old a bowl of young soy beans and she absolutely loved them. Well, today, her diaper was full of the whole beans as they didn't break down at all. Here's the problem - she's at the " independent stage " and won't let me feed her, so when I blend the beans and try to feed her with a spoon she refuses. My questions - if the beans are coming out whole doesn't that just defeat the purpose? Meaning, she's probably not absorping any nutrients is she? Does blending the food to smaller pieces make it easier for her to digest it? Thanks, Sonia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2002 Report Share Posted July 8, 2002 On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 iucsonia wrote: > Hello All. > I gave my 13 month old a bowl of young soy beans and she absolutely loved > them. Well, today, her diaper was full of the whole beans as they didn't > break down at all. Here's the problem - she's at the " independent stage " and > won't let me feed her, so when I blend the beans and try to feed her with a > spoon she refuses. My questions - if the beans are coming out whole doesn't > that just defeat the purpose? Meaning, she's probably not absorping any > nutrients is she? Does blending the food to smaller pieces make it easier for > her to digest it? If the food is coming out whole, she's probably not getting much nutrition from it. But, she *is* learning to feed herself, which is a major milestone. As long as most of her food gets digested, it's probably fine to give her a few things like edamame that pass through whole. As her molars come in and her chewing technique develops she'll learn to break them down on her own. ---- Patricia Bullington-McGuire <patricia President, The Arlington Cooperative Organization The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way ... -- Stanislaw Lem, " Cyberiad " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2002 Report Share Posted July 8, 2002 I had the same problem with my son - he would eat foods whole and then I would see the whole food coming out in his stool. My son is 20 months old and I still blend everything - greens, beans, fruit, tofu, pasta, etc. for him except hot cereals, bread, bananas, oranges, and casseroles which I mash with a fork. He's been eating by himself since he was about 16 months old and does well now. - <iucsonia Saturday, July 06, 2002 2:02 PM Edamame question > Hello All. > I gave my 13 month old a bowl of young soy beans and she absolutely loved > them. Well, today, her diaper was full of the whole beans as they didn't > break down at all. Here's the problem - she's at the " independent stage " and > won't let me feed her, so when I blend the beans and try to feed her with a > spoon she refuses. My questions - if the beans are coming out whole doesn't > that just defeat the purpose? Meaning, she's probably not absorping any > nutrients is she? Does blending the food to smaller pieces make it easier for > her to digest it? > Thanks, > Sonia > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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