Feeding two?

Do you ever have one of those “blonde” moments? It seems like when I became a mom, those moments were showing up more often. One of those latest moments showed up when I was trying to be efficient and in a hurry. Those two things don’t always go together well.


To truly understand this, you have to remember that with Luke he is about at a 12 month level with feeding. He can use his hands or fists to grab food…but we are working on using forks and spoons. Which when we just give them to him, he throws…so we have to help him with that.

Over the last month I have tried to feed both Luke and baby girl at the same time. You would think this would be easy, and efficient…right? Well at first I found it to work pretty well. So of course once I get something down well, I feel like I can add something else to the mix. For example; I can feed them both and listen to the radio, or even eat my food as well. The other day I did a dangerous thing. I tried feeding them both while talking on the phone.

I was giving Luke his normal breakfast of scrambled eggs and a banana, and baby girl her puréed bananas. Maybe that was my first mistake, feeding them both bananas. My subconscious mind probably figured as long as they both got bananas I was fine.

I’m sure you can figure out what happened...I was so in tuned with my conversation I was just automatically feeding Luke…before I realized it I think I gave him at least 4 spoons of the baby’s bananas!! When I caught that, I laughed and tried to focus better. Then I got back into my conversation…and began feeding automatically again. And I’m sure you can guess what happened…yep...I gave the baby part of her brother’s banana. The only good part to this was that she realized right away that something wasn’t right…the the banana never really got inside her mouth. I think it was the action of her spitting it out, that made me realize what I had done.

It’s a good thing she keeps her momma in line!! Luke doesn’t care what he eats…as long as he eats…so I didn’t catch it as quickly. I think I better go back to just feeding both of them, and forget trying to get anything else done at the same time!! As much as I like to be efficient, I’m afraid one day I may try to feed something to the baby and she decides she’ll try it instead of spitting it back out at me.