Alicia Silverstone explains bird-like feeding method
The last couple of months have been filled with celebrity mom weirdness — from January Jones eating placenta snacks to Alicia Silverstone pre-chewing her baby’s food. Alicia defends her decision to feed her son baby-bird style.
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“I can understand that it would make some people feel uncomfortable, possibly, because it’s new to them,” Alicia told Entertainment Tonight. “But I do want to let you know that this has been going on for thousands of years — still going on all over the place — and it’s natural.”
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The actress, 35, posted a video on her website The Kind Life in which she pre-chewed food and had son Bear Blu eat it directly out of her mouth. The controversial practice of pre-chewing solid food for an infant is called pre-mastication.
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“It’s a part of the weaning process,” Alicia told ET, “so while I’m still breastfeeding it’s just a way to introduce him to food when he doesn’t have teeth… and he can’t chew.
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“My kid is healthy. My kid’s the happiest baby ever. He didn’t have teeth and he would choke,” she explained. ” And, basically, how it started was simply that Bear — when he was about 5 months old — I’d be eating and he would come at me with his little mouth open and be on my mouth trying to get the food out of my mouth.”
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Bear, the first child for the actress and her husband Christopher Jareki, will be 1 year old on May 5, 2011.
What do you think: natural or gross?
