I'm not anxious to try again anytime soon.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Feed me, Seymour!
Sophie has recently taken an interest in grown-up food, and so I've taken to giving her a lick of apple here and there, a dab of syrup from my finger; on Sunday, I swear she tried to chomp down on a piece of cantaloupe. And so I figured at a week shy of six months, she was ready to take on solid food. The rice cereal was a disaster. First she tried to dunk her whole head into the bowl and then spit out every spoonful we put into her mouth. Next we gave her a little banana (because that's what Eli likes to eat), and it went over a little better, but she pretty much cried throughout the whole ordeal.
I'm not anxious to try again anytime soon.
I'm not anxious to try again anytime soon.
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barnaby loves eating almost everything (yogurt and hard boiled egg excepted) so much right now, we've nearly forgotten how much he hated everything we gave him the first couple times. if he's any indication, it gets way easier really fast. don't give up! and please post messybabyfoodface pictures!
Yep - keep on tryin'...they all push it out at first. As I recall (and we'll be back to this in a few weeks ourselves, of course), it helps if they've already nursed a bit and so aren't super-hungry. That way they don't get frustrated as easily.
Seriously, it takes about three days, and then they are totally on board. I swear, he hated everything at first, and then he would hate every new thing we gave him... but slowly he went from hating something to just hating the first few bites, to being weirded out at the first bite to just trusting that whatever we shoveled in his mouth was worth eating. It's like everything with babies, for some reason, you have to just let them complain a little...
I agree Sophie, I didn't like rice cereal at first either. Mom still feeds it to me in my applesauce and it's not too bad now. Keep trying those bananas though. I think you'll grow to like them a lot.
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