What Foods Can I Give My 7 Month Old If She Hates Baby Food?
My 7 month old absolutely detests baby food. I have tried peaches, pears, applesauce, bananas, apples & bananas, sweet potatoes, peas, carrots, and apple juice, pear juice, and apple banana juice. Not one she likes. She actually GAGGED on the peas. Poor girl. So I have come to the conclusion she isn’t having any of it.
I give her toddler cookies to chew, and cheetos sometimes, but she is still on formula. She kinda of is ok with Rice cereal. What can I do??? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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A: Don’t try it once and give up. Give her a couple foods for a week, over and over, she’s new to solids and really doesn’t know better than to spit them back out. It takes at least three times with new food for anyone to get used to it and truly form an opinion on the taste. She doesn’t really need any juice so you don’t have to worry about that. Try out one veggie and one fruit for a week and see what happens. You can also make baby mashed potatoes (potato flakes with only water), she doesn’t need Cheetos, oatmeal is another option to rice.
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Sometimes babies do better with foods that have a bit more texture and aren’t so pureed. Try mashing table food or cutting them into pieces small enough for her to swallow whole. And try adding a teeny bit of salt. Even justa few grains to some food greatly improves the taste for baby.
A: We never bought baby food. We just boiled and pureed fresh vegies and then moved into meat. It worked for our two, and they eat a lot of stuff.
A: cherrios….i am sure you know…what about your mashed patatoes i mean i would check w your doctor first but i really don’t blame her lol…i think your mother in law is spoiling her when you are not around just kidding…
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Use the rice cereal as a base for introducing the other foods slowly.
Mix your usual small bowl of rice cereal and give her a couple of bites. Then mix in a spoonful of any of the basics and give her a couple of more bites. Slowly continue to change the proportion until she’s eating more of the fruit or vegetable than the cereal.
Babies refuse food often because the sensations of taste and smell are overwhelming to new tongues and noses. This process gives baby more time to adjust to the flavor.
I guarantee it to work. It is just a matter of determining how slowly you need to change the proportions. A couple of days’ worth of easing in might be needed or, if you’re lucky, a single session will do.
A: Google baby led weaning. She will love it. You use no mush.
Also, avacadoes. My babies LOVED them
Have you tryed making your own, it wont have that baby food jar taste and you can give her like organic adult apple juice and water it down.
rice crisps, mashed potatoes, soft pasta.. rice, maybe bite size kinda mushed up piece of banana.