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Baby food likes and dislikes

SmittyPantsSmittyPants member
in January 2012 Moms

DD will only eat sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, and oatmeal. She hates any and all fruit and acts like I'm trying to feed her dog sh*t whenever I attempt. She also apparently hates yogurt. 

I'm wondering if I should keep attempting the stuff she doesn't like or just be grateful that I may have a kid who actually prefers veggies.  

Thoughts?

Oh, and when do you all plan to try finger type foods like banana slices, avocado pieces, Cheerios, that type of stuff?  

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Re: Baby food likes and dislikes

  • nsimoncavagensimoncavage

    If you already have stock of the things she doesn't like, why not sneak in a few bites when she is eating something she enjoys, or mixing a fruit in with her sweet potatoes? 

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  • bigbearbigbear

    https://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/

     

    I"m sure you've seen this already, but here it is just in case.

    You can mix bananas with avocados, maybe you can get it in that way? ;)

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  • ajponder1ajponder1
    My mom suggested to me one bite of something she likes, then one bite of something she doesn't... :)
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  • namara5532namara5532 member

    The advice I've heard is to keep offering foods they don't like.  Maybe they'll eat it, maybe they won't.  But at least you're giving them the chance to warm up to it.

    DS loves squash.  He's only had it once so far, but he was gulping down every spoonful.  He doesn't like bananas for whatever reason, but he takes peas ok.

    I'm steadily making his purees more chunky and watching how he handles it.  When he can handle purees with little to no added water and it's very chunky, I'll probably give him some soft finger foods to practice feeding himself with.  Cheerios and the sort probably won't be too far after.  He doesn't have teeth yet, so I'm cautious about what he gets for now.

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  • bigbearbigbear
    I also wanted to add that I've heard from a few women here at work that you should start cheerios and chunks of food when the baby can crawl... I'm not sure of the reasons behind it but that's just what i've heard.... If anybody has more info on this I'd be curious, too
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  • meg_2006meg_2006 member

    Our LO hates fruits too, so the pedi said to mix a spoonful in with a couple spoonfuls of veggies.  He also said to try lots of mixes.  We finally found one just today that he liked- bananas and mixed berries!

    We're already starting with table foods.  Kind of like BLW, but with purees in the mix.  I give him puffs too, even though he can't really pick them up and eat them.  It's just for practice!  If you research BLW, you'll discover babies can't pick up foods like that and put them in their mouth until they're developmentally capable of chewing them and eventually swallowing.  If you do give puffs or Cheerios, do NOT put them in his mouth for him!


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  • talitha712talitha712 member
    DD has already had banana and avocado slices.  Loved them both!  We'll hold off on Cheerios and the like for now until DD gets better with swallowing.  Also the BLW book says that it's not until a little later that babies can open their fist to get to the food inside it.  For now they need food they can hold with their fist that sticks out the top.

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  • ajponder1ajponder1
    DD loves everything except rice cereal so far! Sweet potatoes and bananas are the favs, followed by pears and squash Big Smile
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