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Tricks for introducing solids to a stubborn baby
shmokes:
My little girl (6 mo. old) LOVES to put everything in her mouth. That is, everything but food. No matter what we try, carrots, bananas, pears, squash, sweet potatoes, cheerios, she just will not have any of it. She clamps her mouth shut and just won't cooperate. At first I was able to trick her by giving her a toy, which she'd try to put in her mouth and I'd slip the food in, but she got savvy to that real quick. She's so smart that she won't even cry. She'll just whimper, but keep her mouth firmly clamped shut. Any ideas? I'm sure lots of you have been through this before, and I think it's getting to the point where she won't get enough if all she gets is breast milk.
FrizzleFried:
Can you tickle her and get her to laugh? Try the choo-choo-train or airplane techniques?
somunny:
How about if she sees you eat some while making yummy noises.
shardian:
Are you trying to feed her, or are you just giving things to her to figure out for herself. You said so already that SHE'LL put anything in her mouth. Just hand her a carrot and see what she does - don't say "eat this", or anything.
My sister-in-law is not exactly a poster child for mom-of-the-year, but one thing she has done right for her two children is to get them to eat pretty much anything without argument. She just hands them things to eat and they do it. At first, most of the stuff would end up on the floor somewhere, but eventually, they knew what to do and will try-and finish- about anything now.
shmokes:
Thanks, but neither work. She's not ticklish yet, and it's not so much that she doesn't enjoy the choo choo train/airplane/bee thing, but she just obviously knows what we're doing. Won't open her mouth. It's funny, too, cos it's obvious that she doesn't mind the taste of some of it (some of it she gags at the flavor :) -- drama queen ). Anything else? I think we're going to have to get creative.
That's not a bad idea with giving her things. She would put a carrot in her mouth. But the problem is that she's only six months, so she can't eat anything like a solid carrot. She can only eat mush, and that's what she won't put in her mouth. We put cheerios in front of her and she will sometimes put them in her mouth, but she doesn't seem to like the flavor. At this point there aren't many things that are as solid as cheerios that we can safely give her.
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