Food in the 1-year-old room

amyjoy18 · October 2012

We received a letter from daycare last week regarding Nolan's transition to the 1-year old room (I can' tbelieve my baby will be 1 in less than 2 months). Two of hteir main recommendations are no bottles and no foods that they can't feed themselves.

DS does great with feeding himself finger foods and with a sippy cup, so no worries there. But, I like the variety that babyfood can offer in the ways of different fruits and veggies. Not to mention some of the foods that he can't feed himself offer great nutrition and are easy, like yogurt, apple sauce, cottage cheese, oatmeal etc.

Is this a typical recommendation for a 1 year odl room? At our old daycare there wasn't a specific 1 year old room. The split was closer to 2 years before they left the baby room.

And...ideas for easy lunches for him?

egpitt22 · October 2012

I received a similar notice when he was transitioning to toddler 1 (but he was 15 months, so a bit older) I asked them about it, because I send in a lot of cottage cheese and yogurt. They said that's fine, they will just encourage him to spoon feed himself and assist as needed (the teachers sit at the table with the kids) And I have noticed that he's been getting much better at feeding himself things like that, so they must be working with him, which is nice.

I'd just talk to them and see if it's an absolute no-no, or if it's just something they don't want to see every day.

AmandaJLewis · October 2012

That is how our center worked. Although kids didn't move to the 1 year old room unless they were walking. So perhaps that also ensured other motor skills being developed too. They kept sippy cups in the room for each of the kids that year (and by 2 have them drinking from dixie cups while I still give EJ a sippy at home...) We didn't have trouble with the transition, but she was also a pretty independent eater by 1. Our issues were more around discovering her allergies and modifying what she could eat off of school's menu.

Nunu&Eddie · October 2012

Same center as Amanda, but I found that they really encouraged the use of the spoon. A lot of times they would give him cereal with milk (in a bowl) for breakfast and encourage him to use his spoon to eat it.

Also, you could always get the baby food in pouches. He can eat it straight out of the package.

MandyMilller · October 2012

My kids were big self feeders and never took to purees, but I can see how that'd be a hard transition to make suddenly if he's not used to it. I'd probably just send whatever he likes and can feed himself and get his purees in at dinnertime. At that age, I think they ate a lot of Cheerios, Mum Mums, scrambled eggs, pieces of fruit and soft veggies, shredded chicken, Gerber "meat sticks," shredded cheese (or cut up string cheese), raisins, that kind of thing.

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