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MrsKelly
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baby picky about baby food???
any moms with babies who turned their nose up to a lot of baby foods?
dd so far won't eat oatmeal cereal, avocado, apples, pears, bananas or peaches.
I tried homemade apples, and applesauce from the store. I tried weeks, months apart even. i tried it mixed with cereal. I tried repeatedly. I tried banana pureed, I tried it mixed with apples. I tried it in the little mesh thing.
she screams, like I am KILLING her. and then at the next feeding, she eyes up the spoon and takes a small taste, to make sure it is something acceptable to her.
she loves sweet potatoes, acorn & butternut squash, peas and most recently green beans. I guess i'm going to try carrots next but, what is up with the fruit???
dd is 6.5 months. what else can I try? I feel like, since I give her solids 2x a day, she's always eating the same things
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baby picky about baby food???
try mango. buy it from the store and cut it up and puree it. dd loves it and it was easy to make. dd also loves prunes. i bought the dried ones from trader joes, softened them up in hot water and pureed but you can buy jarred too. earths best also makes a pear/mango combo.
dd HATED certain foods as well...its all trial and error. i usually mix her fruits with cereal. oatmeal or mixed grain. good luck!
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FergieK
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Re: baby picky about baby food???
wow you tried alot. I feel like DD really didnt eat anything else besides squash, sweet potatoes, carrots, apples a that age. I got the mixed pouches so that there was a fruit and a vegi mix. I didnt start her on solid foods until 6 months and she still doesnt care for the oatmeal. I do the pastina with homade puree of mixed vegis. with a little butter. she likes that. I have to say now that shes 11 mo she wont eat the SP or Peas but loves avacado like its the best thing on earth. and eats pretty much everything.
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PregowithTwins
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baby picky about baby food???
I agree for a 6 month old you really tried alot. Are you giving her a chance?I would continue to try 3 days in a row...sheneeds to get used to it.
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| Posted 5/18/13 7:40 AM |
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MrsS2005
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Re: baby picky about baby food???
DS2 hated apples for a while and was difficult with eating any solids for the first month or so. Around 7 months, he was more willing to eat things. He has become a little more picky again at 10 months with certain purees, but loves table food.
I would keep trying. I remember reading that it could take 8-12 times of offering a food before a baby will start to like something. I'd also try mixing the food she doesn't like with fruits and vegetables that she does like.
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mommyIam
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Re: baby picky about baby food???
its often about the texture than the taste, mix in a little of what baby doesn't like with what baby loves. And slowly increase what she doesn't like.
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| Posted 5/18/13 11:52 AM |
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LiveItUp
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baby picky about baby food???
Maybe she thinks fruits are too sweet? Or it could be the texture. I've noticed that dd likes most things we've given her, different fruits and veggies, but she hates peas and bananas, both of which have a thicker texture than everything else we've fed her. But at 7.5 months she still hasn't tried that many things; just sweet potatoes, carrots, apples, pears, peaches, and prunes.
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MrsKelly
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Re: baby picky about baby food???
Posted by PregowithTwins
I agree for a 6 month old you really tried alot. Are you giving her a chance?I would continue to try 3 days in a row...sheneeds to get used to it.
yes, i'm giving her a chance... that's what I was getting at when I was saying I tried it different ways, different time periods, repeatedly etc... bc I didn't want anyone to think I tried it once, oh she didn't like it, move on.
we started solids long before 6 months. started with oatmeal, she liked it for a bit then started refusing it. tried apples next... hated it. tried mixing it with the oatmeal, nope. tried a handful of times with the apples.
then decided to give solids a rest for a few weeks.
came back to it, same thing with the apples. moved onto sweet potatoes, gobbled them up. same thing with squash & peas, so it wasn't that she wasn't ready for solids or anything like that.
I thought maybe it was the consistency at first - apples & pears are similar. but it was the same thing with bananas and peaches as well.
I've tried apples probably a dozen times now, pears 3x, bananas a handful of times. peaches only 2x bc she literally was in a fit of hysterics, i'm certainly not going to force her to eat something and make her cry when there are other things she likes, I figure i'll come back and try it again in a couple of weeks.
I tried sweet poatatoes mixed with apples yesterday. still no
I bought a mango, i'll give that a shot today I guess.
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MrsKelly
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Re: baby picky about baby food???
Posted by luvmotherhood
try mango. buy it from the store and cut it up and puree it. dd loves it and it was easy to make. dd also loves prunes. i bought the dried ones from trader joes, softened them up in hot water and pureed but you can buy jarred too. earths best also makes a pear/mango combo.
dd HATED certain foods as well...its all trial and error. i usually mix her fruits with cereal. oatmeal or mixed grain. good luck!
I gave her prune juice a few times, per the pediatrician for constipation issues - she loved it but, it did a number on her belly and I swore off prune juice. i'm scared to try prunes, for fear of the same effect
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