I haven't done such a good job at keeping up with the ole blog so far this month...but maybe I can enlist the help of this little girl...
I think we may have a future blogger on our hands here ;)
Shelby is loving her little laptop!But what she is not loving so much these days is solids...and therefore, Mommy is not loving it so much either. It's just not a fun time for us right now..it's more of a struggle! She has definitely reached the age where she can now voice her opinion! Once she got the hang of the spoon, she was loving her rice cereal. Then, we broke out the sweet potatoes..and she loved them! Next up on the menu was carrots. The carrots did not go over so well, and she was quite dramatic about it. (She was making fake gagging sounds. I say fake b/c this is the child who has already mastered the fake cough..now she's got the fake gag down. Dramatic.) Then came the squash...another fail.
I think maybe this big bad world of solids was just too much for her too quickly. Before, she would get excited as soon as I plopped her down in her high chair. Then when she spotted the spoon, she would start lunging towards it. Now? She won't even her mouth for the spoon..no matter what is on it. It used to always be yummy rice cereal on that spoon, but now this little girl is on to me. She quickly learned that rice cereal might not be on that spoon, and she doesn't want to risk tasting anything she doesn't like!
We are still attempting to eat rice cereal once a day & a vegetable once a day. But it's getting frustrating..for both of us. (Not to mention, we had to switch her daily vitamin drops from Tri-Vi-Sol to Poly-Vi-Sol now that she's getting older and needs more iron in her diet...and she hates them, too. Ugh. She just spits it out everywhere..and the best part is, they stain. Double ugh.) So my new game plan is to mix her vitamin drops with apple juice (I already tried disguising it by mixing it in with a bottle, but she still didn't like it), add a little applesauce to her rice cereal (my mom said she did this with my sister & me and had success..so we're trying it!), and making another attempt at veggies--next up is peas and green beans! If she doesn't like those, we're skipping to fruits! (Our pediatrician recommended giving veggies first b/c sometimes if babies eat sweet fruits first, they won't like the veggies. So I wanted to get her to like veggies first before introducing fruits...oh, well!) We'll see how it goes....
Okay, thank you for indulging me in this little rant about solids. ;) Happy almost Friday to you!
Here's my thought, even though I've heard that too about veggies before fruits, I don't know if I buy it. Have you ever tasted a little of the milk that she's been drinking? Its dang sweet! I'd keep introducing the veggies like you have been. Eventually she'll adapt to them. Have you tried bananas? I have heard that they are easy to digest and usually babies like them, so try mixing it with the squash. Or, sweet potato? Sweet potato has so many great vitamins and things in it, and its sweet, so maybe that will work. Cheyanne had acorn squash first, she liked it. Then we had avocado, she liked that too and turned away from the squash. Then we had sweet potato and now prefers that over the others. But, I keep introducing the different ones every few days like it is a whole new food. Does the trick for the time, until the next things introduced. Another thought would be to mix breastmilk in with the food. Familiar taste. Good luck!
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ReplyDeleteHey Sarah! For both of my kiddos, I used oatmeal instead of rice cereal because I thought the rice was nasty....and they didn't have any problem with it. I actually would mix in unsweetened applesauce and a dash of cinnamon to the cereal. They LOVED it. That was also when I put in the vitamin drops as well and then they were none the wiser. I say start giving her fruits....those pureed veggies are nasty...and soon enough she will be able to eat small pieces of steamed, fresh veggies and I'm sure she will love it. All of her nutritional needs are being met by your milk :) Both of my kids ate fruits first and they are great vegetable eaters at ages 5 and 2. So all hope will not be lost :) :) Good luck!
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