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My mum used to make her own popcycles by freezing fruit juice (orange or grape mostly) after placing a popcycle stick in them. She also gave us more sweet ones for summer, like freezing Kool-Aide type drinks, but we were old enough to brush the sugar off our teeth then. And, she also froze fruit cocktail with a bit of the juice (probably not a good idea for a baby) or put peaches in the blender, then froze them... my little sister loved those ones when teething. They were tasty & with 7 kids, it was more of a way to save $ & everyone's friends were welcome to unlimited popcycles, which was nice. Not sure this is the flavor a baby would prefer, but my sister still makes her own sweetened iced tea popcycles.
I'm unsure if a 6-mo old is too small to handle any of the above, but the nice thing is today there are all sorts of tray sizes & shapes, some made from flexible silicone to easily remove cubes.
Also, when we were teething, my mum used a warm washcloth instead of cold. I'm unsure why... maybe that's what worked, as each kid is different. I remember my youngest sister crying with teething pain... seemed to hit her the hardest with fever & pain. I swear she cried for a year. But, when chewing on a hot cloth, it seemed to give her relief.
Oh, & at the risk of sounding silly, since babies drink milk, would frozen milkcycles work? Even if a bit of chocolate or flavored powder were put into them?
Good luck with the wee one. Please post back to tell us what worked.
I wouldn't give fruit juice popsicles to a little kid, even besides the choking risk, for the same reason you're not supposed to give fruit juice in a bottle. Prolonged contact with condensed sugar like that is bad for baby teeth.
They have a product with a mesh. It's meant to hold cold things (like strawberries, grapes, etc) in it. Popsicles are high in sugar... But I suppose if the child is already drinking juice, you probably could freeze them and put it in the mesh.
At 6 months, all of my babies were still exclusively breast- or formula-fed, so I gave them frozen washcloths to know on. At little older, 9 months or so, frozen fruit in a mesh feeder.
Mesh feeders are great. You can put cut up melon, some strawberries, etc. in the freezer for a little bit (so that they're very cold, but not completely frozen). Then put them in the mesh feeder and you're good to go.
The suggestion of frozen washcloths is also a good one - we used those a lot.
We did frozen washcloths and teething toys. You can find them at stores like Target. I do not think frozen popsicles are appropriate for a six month old.
OP- no recipe needed. Just freeze some fruit chunks! My youngest niece is 8 months old. She loved sucking and mashing her frozen fruit! She doesn't want them now, lol. She only wants the real thing with her four teeth.
As someone else suggested use a mesh feeder. You can put frozen fruit in those and not have to worry about choking. I'd also be sure to run by anything you intend to feed the baby with the parents, first.
I wouldn't give fruit juice popsicles to a little kid, even besides the choking risk, for the same reason you're not supposed to give fruit juice in a bottle. Prolonged contact with condensed sugar like that is bad for baby teeth.
On a hot day the "contact" you speak of wouldn't be for long at all.
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