My 7 and 1/2 month old daughter had a cold and had stopped eating solid food. Now she is better, but I can only get her to eat baby fruit and cerial, she will not eat veggies. Does anyone have any advice on how to get her to eat her veggies, (i mean she is only a baby, it shouldn't be so hard!) Has anyone elses kid ever done this to them? Thank you for your responses.
She should slowly get back into the food routine. Maybe get some pediasure drinks if you are worried about her not getting proper nutrition.(we call them "milkshakes" & sometimes adding ice in the blender makes it work perfect!) If her stools are loose, pedialyte would be good too, to get her system back in balance.
My 9 month old had the stomach flu and threw up every meal for 2 days... which happened to be a lot of peas and/or green beans. He wouldn't eat them for awhile. I would just give him a spoonful after a few spoonfuls of something he liked. It has been 2 months and we have no problem now.
If my guy didn't like a vege, I would just mix it with fruit and slowly start putting less fruit in with the offending vege. But babies can be picky. One day he loved acorn squash and the next day he wouldn't touch it. Maybe your babe is just going through a phase. She'll come around and eventually start eating veges again!
Orange veggies are usually easier to get them to eat. Sweet potatoes, and carrots. Also, feed her what she is least likely to enjoy first when she is hungry. Save her favorites for the end of the meal. You can also mix small amounts of veggies into her cereal to get her used to the taste. Jarred baby veggies in my opinion are pretty bad... as are the meats. Your baby may respond better if you buy fresh veggies, cook them til soft and puree them in a mini blender. It is way cheaper too and gets them used to the way that the food will taste when she is eating at the table with you. It will be an easier transition to table food.
Mix pureed veggies with her fruit or try sweeter veggies like squash, peas, corn etc. As weird as it sounds, one of my daughter's favorites is asparagus and pear. Sounds gross, but she loves it and it's great nutrition!
Have you ever had a food that you just can't stand the taste of? I bet you do, and your baby is no different than any other human being. They have likes and dislikes. At 7.5 months, you should still be introducing a single fruit or vegetable a week at a time, so go back to square one and see what she likes. Green beans and peas were the hard ones for my kids, taste them yourself, you may not like the flavor either. But, offer one fruit and one vegie per meal. Breakfast probably will be a cereal and a fruit. Lunch and dinners, a vegetable and a fruit. It maybe a little early yet for strained meats. But if she's only tolerating cereal and fruits for right now, then that's what she gets. The flu/cold that's going around right now makes eating very uncomfortable. Even a baby knows what hurts, so take your time. It's part of getting well. Patience.
Is she breast feeding? If she is, she really doesn't NEED solid food until she is at least a year because breast milk is the perfect food for them until they reach a year. If she is bottle feeding, I would think it is a good idea to constantly try introducing different foods. A baby food grinder is a wonderful tool and I got mine at Target. I started my kids on ground rice, ground bananas and other fruit, mixing some veggies in with the fruit disguises the veggies, and even whatever you are eating in small amounts as long as it isn't too spicy. Anything that comes in a package, commercial baby food, formula, baby cereals, are all made the cheapest way possible, often with genetically modified ingredients, unknown as to how many pesticide residues are in them, so I fed my children ground food that I was eating and ate organic as often as possible. It is a good rule of thumb to avoid anything that comes in a package both for your baby and for you. Remember processed meats like bacon, lunch meats, hams, anything you don't cook yourself are loaded with preservatives, msg, and nitrates and nitrites. Very bad for all of us. Good luck and good health to you.
Store bought baby food tastes horrendous. No wonder babies don't want to eat it. I used to cook potatoes and carrots, then mash them up with a bit of butter and salt. My son LOVED them. My other children did too.
KitchenAid has an attachment to their mixer that allows you to grind just about any kind of food you can imagine for babies to eat. Also, you can mash up sweet potatoes, broccoli, just about anything.
