My sweet LO got burned at Mother's Day dinner--the server put pipng hot pizza down right in front of DS and he promptly plunged his little fingers into it. So sad. 
He's healing well, but has tender areas now that the top layer of burned skin has come off (he has second-degree burns on four fingers.) We are trying to keep his hands covered with salve and cotton socks.
He has just recently started to be interested in solids. There were a few days when he still had rough burned skin where we let him go bare-handed; I gave him some avocado and he chowed! Now he seems to want to eat but I don't want to risk the tender skin getting food in it.
What do you think? Offer him some food from a spoon (and try to keep his hands out of it?) or just wait another week or so until he can use his hands to explore and eat on his own?
He is 8.5 mos old, FWIW.
He's healing well, but has tender areas now that the top layer of burned skin has come off (he has second-degree burns on four fingers.) We are trying to keep his hands covered with salve and cotton socks.
He has just recently started to be interested in solids. There were a few days when he still had rough burned skin where we let him go bare-handed; I gave him some avocado and he chowed! Now he seems to want to eat but I don't want to risk the tender skin getting food in it.
What do you think? Offer him some food from a spoon (and try to keep his hands out of it?) or just wait another week or so until he can use his hands to explore and eat on his own?
He is 8.5 mos old, FWIW.
I think I was feeling down about his burns, and when I saw him hungry I just got even more bummed. We never spoon-fed DD either--tried to use a BLW approach.
