Popcorn – this was something I was not planning on feeding to my daughter for a while because I still gag on it and I am 24. We had friends over the other night for a movie night and Capri decided sleep was over rated and staying up with the grown ups was a much better idea. She was sitting with her daddy who was eating his bowl of popcorn and he made a comment about feeding it to her. I have to admit I FREAKED OUT. I looked back a few seconds later and she was eating a piece.
I had a bit of negative feedback on Facebook when I mentioned that she was eating popcorn, but it was also from people who still worry about their kids choking and they are in elementary school. She did amazing with it. She didn’t even gag on those little pieces that get stuck in my throat all the time.
She kept crawling up into her daddy’s lap begging for more. He just kept handing it over and she ate it with no problems. It was awesome.
DeborahRuth
Deborah is the mom to a hilarious little girl named Pri (6/19/2010). Pri started BLW when she was 6 months old and other than that she is exclusively breastfed. They live in the Great White North (aka Canada) and enjoy hanging out with other moms and babies and eating food.
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I love reading your posts about Capri! They seriously give me such courage to try different things with K. I still think about that video of her eating the spaghetti – so awesome!
I’ve given my 15mo popcorn a few times (home-popped stuff, not the bagged stuff). I just make sure to pick off the brown kernel part; the white starchy part will just kind of dissolve in the mouth.
Ours was the home popped stuff as well (though it had lots of button on it) and it had salt on it.
I admit that popcorn is one of the foods I’m worried about choking with. I’m not sure why, it practically dissolves the second it hits your mouth! She looks like she loves it.
Yep, I’m really scared of popcorn too! Maybe I should relax about it. It is one of the more commonly choked on foods but we also live in a society where babies are mostly fed purees… Maybe our babies will be less likely to choke as older kids/adults because of how they are learning to eat as infants!
I wasn’t too worried about it, though I picked through the popcorn to find the ones that were the driest and least salty and also the ones that have popped the most so there wasn’t that hard spot with the kernel part still on it. I gave her a small piece at first just cause she was super curious but after seeing how well she did and how much she liked it, we ended up sharing a small bowl together and she didn’t gag once! I was highly impressed.
Hi Deborah,
I found you through Amy’s blog. I’m Morgan Wilson’s mom. Just wanted to comment that I wouldn’t be particularly worried about gagging (or choking) with popcoen, but I am always concerned about the sharp little hull. I’ve occasionally had them stuck in the back of my own throat and I wouldn’t want a little one to have to deal with that. (It might take a long time to realize what was bothering her.) I’ve fed popcorn to many little ones starting with my nieces and nephews and then my own children. I would sit and bite off the hull end feeding the button end to the child. I love popcorn so this makes a great shared treat!