Hi Becky, I don't know if anybody answered this already. An infant feeder is a hard plastic rounded baby bottle that feels more like a jar than a bottle. There is a bottom part that screws on and a disk with holes in it that fits on there after you put the baby food or cereal in it. The nipple is larger than a regular baby bottle nipple and there is a larger hole in it. As the baby sucks on the nipple, the bottom part pushes the food up, so the baby doesn't get all that air in their stomach. it is a little bit of work cleaning it because it all comes apart for cleaning. But it is a really easy way for a blind person to feed a small baby who is still to young to balance in the high chair and hold a spoon or have you feed them with a spoon. This way it doesn't go all over and more gets into the baby than on the baby. But someone told me they looked recently and the infant feeders did not have that little disk with holes in it on there. So i may be picturing what I used almost 29 years ago for Debbie. Lora
----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 8:30 PM Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Re: Lora What is an infant feeder? Becky From: Sandra Warren Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 12:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Re: Lora Oh, memories! I used the infant feeders for both my boys, and got criticism like the dickens from sighted people, mind you, not the pediatrician, though; he had good common sense, the others were all horses' petunias! grin! know it alls, who knew nothing about folks with disabilities! That cereal is runny, so is applesauce, and it would be a terrible mess! this way I knew they got all their food! some folks would say if ya fed them that way that they never would know how to eat with fork and spoon, well, they are not on infant feeders today! another blind couple would make a bigger hole or two in the nipples of the bottles and make feeders that way, but the infant feeders had the plunger so the baby did not get the air which caused colic! Sandy also, nothing stains clothes worse than the formula! I used Dreft for the baby wash; not sure if it is even around these days. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lora Leggett To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 11:44 AM Subject: [RecipesAndMore] Re: Lora Oh, i bet that was fun to clean up after. The formula really disagreed with both of them. At five months the doctor changed Deb to regular milk, and when Georgie started upchucking at three months, I just went ahead and put him on milk and never did we have that problem again! Yuck! i also used one of those infant feeder bottles with Deb because, try and shut your eyes and get a spoon of cereal or apple sauce into a baby's mouth when they are in an infant seat so you don't have to hold them and try to get into their mouth instead of all over them! haha Lora --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
