You know, I thought we were soooo fortunate when Baby B loved pretty much every pureed food we put in her mouth. “Oh, look! She’s not a picky eater! That’ll make it so much easier on us!” we beamed to each other, proud of our little eater.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!
What we didn’t count on was the fact that her tastes would change when she started finger/table foods. She loved pureed green beans, but eating real green beans? Um, not so much. She loved pureed sweet potatoes, but sweet potato chunks? They typically find their way to the floor during mealtime, which of course the dog loves, but it’s not exactly the best for her.
And what makes things even more complicated is the fact that she can change her mind on a whim. One night she will gobble up black beans, but the next night, she wants nothing to do with them. Each night for dinner, I have to prepare a wide range of food items for her meal, not just to give her good nutrition but because I just don’t know what she is going to eat that night. If anything. Some nights recently, she’s eaten not much at all, which is okay is since I’m still nursing her, but at some point that’s not going to be the case.
Five foods are nearly always winners: yogurt with fruit, waffles, toast, cheese, and toasted cheese sandwiches. *sigh* Anything else is up in the air.
I don’t think it’s an issue with feeding herself, either. She loves to do that when it’s a food she likes. Sometimes we’ll try giving her things on a fork, and that’ll raise her interest somewhat. Other times we’ll pick up the food and hand it to her. But other times she wants us to do nothing and will eventually do it herself, on her own timetable. It definitely gets frustrating after a while, but we just clean up dinner and vow to try again the next night. I was just hoping to avoid having a kid that hates her vegetables, but it looks like we’ve got one on our hands.
Of course, that’s just how it is this week. I swear if you give it a week, things will often change course drastically. I can only hope that’s true at this point.
Monday, February 4, 2008 at 12:49 pm |
we’re finding this is exactly what happens with K. Some days she’ll eat whatever we give her ,others she spits out everything we put in her mouth. She prefers to finger feed herself, but sometimes she’s OK with us putting it in her mouth. It’s funny, the faves you listed are the top things that we KNOW K will also eat- those carbs
Monday, February 4, 2008 at 2:29 pm |
I wonder how much it’s a toddler thing – she now KNOWS she has control over what she wants to eat… versus eating everything because it’s new and exciting?
And I’ll tell you. Toasted cheese – man you CAN’T go wrong with that. And waffles? Yum.