It was weeks before we got to this point and #3 was the BEST option for us/JT.
Spica cast care, spica cast tips, toddlers in spica casts, spica casts with bars. Oh the trials of spica casts and the best advice we found was from other parents who went through the same thing. This is our effort to help others through the process of life in a spica cast.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Spica cast care: Eating
JT wanted to feed himself. He didn't fit in any of the high chairs we tried. He couldn't sit up because of the angle of his cast, so we tried several things before we found a couple of decent options:
1) We propped him up with pillows on the air mattress and put LARGE plastic bibs with catcher trays on him - this could only be used with solid foods that we could easily clean up
2) we held him at the table and he would at least let us help him a bit more since he was with the family at least
3) we put him in an umbrella stroller and then set a TV tray next to him so he could reach his food, be in the kitchen for dinner time and mostly feed himself.
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