pre-chewing baby son's food

[Lovefruitsandvegs]

Just read this story www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2127315/Alicia-Silverstone-defends-controversial-practice-pre-chewing-baby-sons-food.html

What do you think of this method? My SIL used to do it to her kids. It is really disgusting. Also, when I was a very young child I remember seeing my cousin's wife doing it to their kid. Even though I was like 6 or 7 I found it disgusting.
I have seen how mums put pacifiers into their mouths and then stick them back into their babies' mouths. Why do mums have to do it?

I guess tribal cultures do not have blenders, spoons or forks to mash the food.
I must admit I even do not like seeing when parents licking their children into their lips; or for example, kissing dogs who lick their genitals and bottoms. I wonder whether those mums have oral sex with their partners. Sorry, it is not my business but many couples do. Sucking on a cock, then pre-chewing baby's food afterwards . No, I think babies are just too sterile to accept our spits. Even if the mum had a perfect mouth hygiene (e.g. no mouth ulcers, no herpes, no candida, no gum disease ....), it is still disgusting. That picture of Alicia showing her spitting food into her son's mouth reminds me of penguins mums who come home after being away from home for three months. The fathers would sit on the eggs all three months. Then the mums would come and disgorge some fish into their chicks' mouths but it is understandable because they are birds and we are humans; we do not need to do it. Are those children who used to eat pre-chewed food are really healthier than those who did not?

Want to hurl up my dinner? Perhaps I can collect and reheat for dd.

WTF?

He's 11 months? What does she need to chew the food for? Just fricking give him it!

It's just fucking rank is all. NOONE wants to eat anyone else's chewed-up food- 11 months or no. Buy a fucking blender for chrissake's.

He's 11 months! Why would she need a blender?

How utterly ridiculous. Who is getting off on this - the mother or the child. Why can't he feed himself chopped up food with his own spoon.

Still, she called him Bear Blu, what do you expect.

Jeez whats the problem?

Typical MN mass hysteria and Op quite frankly your last post was vile and you are sick.

Well, no, at 11 months it isn't necessary

But... people feed their 11 month old babies jars of food, or mashed up food, and that's generally considered fine. I didn't do it, my babies have just been given whatever's going - but loads of people do.

So, even though its unnecessary, its no worse or different to giving mashed or jarred food really (as long as the chewer is healthy). The disease thing is a red herring IMO - BF carries transmission risks but only in certain circumstances and we don't have a thread going ohmigodhowunhygienic every time a sleb BFs in public

Each to their own and all that [shrug]

I bet the penguins would use a blender if they had the chance btw. Who wants to vom up raw fish?

And yeah, to the cock comment.

I need a like button for your posts queen bravo.

lovesfruit that was a ridiculous post. Sterile babies, mothers engaging in oral sex at teatime, and penguins.

Oral sex at teatime? Them were the days... [dreams]

Having given it a moments thought, I think it is a great idea. better than that baby food shit in a jar.

Well according to this article the immune boosting benefits of pre-mastication are parallel with those of breast-feeding. I used to pre-chew meat for my older DD to make it easier for her to digest, makes sense to me as a way to help your child digest certain foods. Obviously you don't need to do it with all foods and transfer from mouth to mouth is not neccessary.

For all those who are worried about bacteria in your mouth, I take it you don't kiss your babies then? Oh and if you gave birth vaginally, what about all the bacteria they were exposed to on their way out. Should we wrap our kids in plastic and filter the air just in case? [hmmm]

www.nature.com/news/early-exposure-to-germs-has-lasting-benefits-1.10294

while we're being all judgy and that.

Not what I do, but I don't find it disgusting.

fruitandveg your last post is odd. Presumably the baby wants to eat the food, she's hardly forcing it into his mouth. I doubt he cares about the saliva tbh.

As for the bj comment, you know that generations of women have eaten food after giving a blow job (putting food in their mouths where the penis has been!) without suffering from any penis-related diseases afterwards. I don't think it's an issue.

You are being a bit weird OP. And U.

DS (11 months) tries to put his pre-chewed food in my mouth most days, which is nice.

OP you are being a bit odd about this.

Euuuuuuuuw, that's so far beyond disgusting it's indiscribable (Puky emotcom)

OP you are strange as are several others on here.

What do you think people did before jarred food or blenders>?!

I think all the 'eeww' comments are strange. We are animals too and pre-chewing is an obvious way for a mother to feed an infant who is unable to chew tougher food himself. OK we don't need to do this now because of tools and technology available to us but I'm surprised to see we've come so far from natural practices that are in fact still used in some parts of the world now.

So 11 month old babies are sterile?

I must have a faulty one, this one is covered in snot, whatever he's been crawling through and has some sort of gunge on him most of the time.

I did this often when ds was a baby, just to give him little tastes of things, particularly in social situations. No-one batted an eyelid. It seemed quite natural to me.