Actress Alicia Silverstone has the Internet buzzing about the method she uses to feed her 11-month-old son, Bear Blu. Alicia chews her baby’s food before spitting it into his mouth.
According to celebrity blog TMZ.com, Alicia posted a video of herself feeding her son on her popular health food website over the weekend.
“I fed Bear the mochi and a tiny bit of veggies from the soup from my mouth to his,” Silverstone wrote on her blog. “He literally crawls across the room to attack my mouth if I’m eating…. Now he is grabbing my mouth to get the food!”
Before you gag, you should know that the animal kingdom also pre-digests animal fodder by swallowing it and regurgitating the stomach contents to feed their young.
Remember, kids, food digestion begins in our mouths. When we eat, the enzymes in our saliva begins to break down starch into simple sugars that can be digested in our stomachs easier. So Alicia is actually doing her baby a favor.
Yes, feeding Blu with baby food probably would be easier, but baby food has additives, hormones and animal byproducts in it.
By the way, all human babies are born with the instinct to take food from it’s mother’s mouth or to suckle on her breast — just like in the animal kingdom. Have you ever kissed your dog’s mouth and he immediately started licking your lips? Did you really think he was kissing you back? He is expecting you to regurgitate your food into his mouth.
