I remember when I started solids with [daughter], she was, oh seven months I think, yes because it's six months they recommend isn't it? I think she was around end of six months or seven months, and I tried her with carrots, and she made, she went, 'what's going on here [laughs]?' but she had it, and she actually finished the, it was just a little beginner one, she finished the bottle, and she was fine with it, and then after I thought, 'Whoa' and we were doing really, really well for a couple of days and then we kind of hit a brick wall where she just said, I'm not having any more of this, and she refused, then we had weeks and weeks where she just spat everything back at me and now we're finally getting into the stage where, after months, where she's beginning to eat. Because I was beginning to get concerned she wasn't eating, I thought she'd lose weight.
Did she?
No she didn't actually, she was, and she's okay. But it was really just trial and error, I'd tried her with all kinds of things and there were some she liked more than, she loved apple for a while, then she loved pear, she liked blueberries, she liked carrots, she like pumpkin and swede, and then she didn't, I mean there was some that she never ever, ever liked, and I've just got back into, there were some she liked and then grew out of, when she was sick with the flu, I didn't, I just gave her things I knew she'd like, like the fruit, she likes blueberries, I didn't bother with the whole carrots and peas and cabbage things, but after she had the cold she went off all those foods, I had to start again so I began looking around the different shops and supermarkets for different brands and I found that, another brand now that she's into at the moment so, she's started eating again properly which is great. It's trial and error because she's changing obviously and her tastes are changing but they do say that when you're feeding the baby you should try and maybe give them the same thing for two or three days just to get them used to the taste rather than chopping and changing and giving them one, a different thing this day and another thing a different days so.
I think part of that too is to see if they have any allergies or anything…
Yes.
…like that.
Yes.
If you're chopping and changing you'll never know what it is.
Yes that's right yeah, yeah.
But if it's just one thing and they react…
Yes.
…to it then you know that's what it is.
That's it, yes so, that's been fun actually, it's been fun to see her gradually take on different foods and, she's not that keen on finger foods at the moment, she tends to think they're toys so, that's not working very well but she likes fruit, and she likes water, and she's okay with vegetables but she's not that bothered, so yeah, it's been quite positive so far, in a way it's also sad because I know it's the beginning of the end for breastfeeding, I'm quite sad about that but I don't want to be one of these mums that breastfeeds until she's twelve. |
