Elana vs Mummy vs Solids

Published on May 23, 2004 By trina_p In Home & Family

Today Elana had her second taste of solids - and she likes rice cereal about as much as I like zucchini.

Yesterday we gave her 1 teaspoon of farex mixed with 2 teaspoons of milk from her bottle and nick fed her while i watched - man he face was so funny. She'd open her mouth and lean down over the spoon and screw up her face as soon as the spoon and taste was in her mouth she'd gum the mush and then open her mouth for the next spoon.

So this morning I tried her on 2 teaspoons of farex with 4 teaspoons of milk like the packet says and she did the same thing except instead of screwing up her face and swallowing she'd screw up her face make this funny noise that sounded almost like yuck and gagged then she swallowed a bit spat some out and opened her mouth ready for the next spoon only to repeat the process - I gave up after she'd had about half of it.

Actually no - I flat out refuse zucchini - it's cooked cabbage I swallow with water gagging most of the way.

We'll just try again tomorrow.

Comments

KarmaGirl

on May 24, 2004

How old is she?

I think that they actually make those faces because the texture is so odd. My daughter liked the banana rice cereal. Have you actually tasted any of those "cereals" that they make for babies? I would make funny faces, too. Yuck.

Sally jacobs

on May 24, 2004

Aww, Maddy Mae is the complete opposite, she loves it all she's on a meal, and a desert, and still has a breast feed, good little appetite on her!! She'll get used to it, though I have to agree it looks and smells awful, how she eats it I don't know!

dharmagrl

on May 24, 2004

It's probably the different texture, she's just not used to it. She'll get accustomed to it eventually. Davey did the same thing at first, but within 2 weeks was pigging out on cereal 3 times a day!

trina_p

on May 24, 2004

Karma-she'll be 6months on the 6th june.

karma/dally/dhama - thanks for your insight yeah i think she is just trying to get used to texture but it smells gross so i wouldnt blame her if she wasn't a fan.

We'll just keep plodding on and look towards a couple weeks time when we can try other mushes.

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