Possibly a stupid question

[BroomForMyChin]

DD is 5.5 months (24 weeks) and is showings signs of being ready to be weaned. Can sit up with little and often no support, interested in food, trying to grab food and put it in her mouth ect.

I'm hoping to do blw so tried her with some roasted pepper and homemade potatoes wedges today and she seemed to really enjoy it (she's not swallowing anything yet but I know that's normal).

What I'm worried about is that her hands are obviously getting quite messy and she keeps putting them in her eyes. The book I've got says not to faff about to much with them when there learning so trying not to clean her hands every 2 seconds.

Will she end up with an eye infection if she keeps getting food in her eye? Is there any way around this?

TIA

Don't worry about it

Just wash her hands and face when she's finished - I don't know of any child who hasn't rubbed their eyes with their mucky hands, and not one of them has caught an eye infection.

If it was a problem, we'd all be putting safety goggles on children when they learn to eat

Thank you. I did think it was a bit silly, but DP was getting very panicked about it the whole time the poor child was trying to eat.

she probably won't actually get anything in her eye because you generally close your eyes when you rub them, and eye lashes are designed to keep bits out.
if it looks like there is anything too close to her eye i would give it a quick wipe, but otherwise nothing to worry about IMO :)

My son does this sometimes and once in 4 months since we started weaning something has got in and irritated his eye, he cried it out and carried on eating! We gently try to pull his hand from his face and say 'No' when he tries to rub his eye with mucky hands but no more than that.