We remember Alicia Silverstone as being a high-maintenance fashion obsessed girl in Clueless.
But she is far from that persona now that she’s a mom!
Alicia has an interesting way of feeding her baby son Bear Blu, who is about 11 months old.
She uses the “bird” approach… meaning like birds, she will chew the food first and then give the food by mouth to her son.
How is her son going to learn how to chew his own food if she is doing it for him?
On her blog, she writes:
“I just had a delicious breakfast of miso soup, collards and radish steamed and drizzled with flax oil, cast iron mochi with nori wrapped outside, and some grated daikon. Yum! I fed Bear the mochi and a tiny bit of veggies from the soup…from my mouth to his. It’s his favorite…and mine. He literally crawls across the room to attack my mouth if I’m eating. This video was taken about a month or 2 ago when he was a bit wobbly. Now he is grabbing my mouth to get the food! Here’s a little video.”
According to Wikipedia, this is called “premastication” or pre-chewing helps to break down food in order to feed another that is incapable of masticating the food by themselves. In many human cultures, this direct mouth-to-mouth feeding is linked with the showing of affection, known as kiss feeding.
But her son is now 11 months old… you would think she would want him to learn to chew solids on his own at this age?
But it’s not the first ‘unique’ practice of the Clueless star who had her baby with husband Christopher Jarecki last May and has been chronicling her parenting moments on Twitter. When her son was 5 months old, she tweeted that “he went poo and pee on toilet 4x throughout the day…we were so proud!”
She was also into toilet training an infant using a “diaper free method”, a term called elimination communication. Apparently some cultures do this, carry around their babies diaper free.
So there ya go, folks! What do you think?
2 Comments
I refuse to acknowledge whether this is weird or not, a good idea or not while we have doulas cooking and serving placenta to new moms. I whole heap of things look quite logiCal to we when faced with that.
What the heck, she can afford the therapy sessions the kid will need. 🙂
It’s not something that I would do, nor do I think that there is a benefit to the child who needs to get used to the textures of new foods. That said, her kid, her decision and more power to her. It’s a lot better seeing that then someone who hasn’t a care for a child.