I was looking at a baby magazine and suddenly I found an ad that advertises the Anti-choking feeder with which, and I quote verbatim, "You can feed your baby safely. Load it with fruits, fresh vegetables, cheeses or cookies with complete peace of mind since only nutrients pass through the safety net".
This reminded me that with my son the eldest we got to have one of these inventions and I was surprised to see that it is still commercialized. We bought it thinking it was a revolution, because we were afraid that the food would choke us, but the expectations were not fully met. That's why I want to remember those moments talking about the invention. Anti-choking feeder or net: revolution or failure?
The idea is good, the result is not
Mind you, the idea is good if you could make a device with which children ate pieces without risk that they would go to the throat (until choking, it is understood), or so I think, it is good, because the most Similar to what I comment already exists, it is called a blender and crushes the food so that the pieces are so smooth that they cannot be choked.
Ok, let's talk about giving him pieces directly ... well then there's nothing. The most sensible thing is offer the pieces in a presentation that the child can easily handle by hand and can handle well in the mouth, to chew and / or drool them and finally swallow them.
I already know it. Maybe you think they are going to drown. As it depends, there are children who pass perfectly from the tit to the macaroni and who fail to taste the purees until older, when they already eat practically everything.
But yes, there are also others, which cost them a lot because anything they put in their mouths supposes an arcade-shaped torture. Well, the ideal is at six months, when they can start eating, offer food in a relatively simple presentation for them and see what happens. If more or less they defend themselves, go ahead, we continue with the method. If they carry it fatal, it is worth more go for the crushed and wait a little.
And use the antiahogo?
Then there will be those who think: "Well, we wait a bit for him to be able to eat the pieces and in the meantime I give him the food with the anti-choking." And I say "well as you want, but that doesn't help much." The publicity says that nutrients cross the safety net. And I say no, some do, obviously, but many others stay in there.
I remember putting pear, apple and cookie and yes, the pear sucked it in such a way that it was dehydrated. Come on, that the child ate almost everything and there was a tiny piece of pear inside without any water (probably part of the fiber). The apple sucked for a while, but it came out practically as it came in. The cookie did suck it for a while, but much of it was left badly discarded and imprisoned disgustingly between the holes in the mesh. The banana, which also came in, I don't even tell you.
Come on, children, with the anti-choking net they eat very little of what they are offered, much of the nutrients that remain within the mesh are lost and the film comes later, when you have to clean that lair full of slime and discarded food. That if it is for the slime, it doesn't matter, but seeing that he has barely eaten and that there are remains of everything everywhere is not pleasant.
Clean it as you can, you are a few minutes with the water to descale everything and let it dry with the doubt that you have left some food there and that with the water, drying there alone, an ecosystem of microorganisms will not multiply there You wouldn't want your son to suck.
Then you just put it in the dishwasher, and after a few washes you see that the net is no longer white, but darkens making the set more and more disgusting. Come on, that so much history and the only thing you offer the baby when you put food inside is a healthy "lollipop", that is, a pot that suck and drool that tastes good but feeds little.
For us, of course, it turned out to be a failure of invention and another pot that we bought because we thought it was useful and that we did not use with the second or the third child.
