At what point do I give up?

Mercedes does not like veges. And she does not eat lumps. She gives an awfully cute, Oscar-worthy rendition of a choking, gagging, raspberry-blower with a cheesy grin, but she refused to actually swallow any. Or even keep it in her mouth.

At what point do I give up and let her win? She eats a range of fruits (as long as they're pureed smoothly) and she eats baby rice, but I keep thinking if I persevere with the veges and the lumps that my stubbornness will beat her stubbornness.

Am I kidding myself?

shes prob too young yet to really handle lumps...have you tried mixing fruit and vege...make it more fuit than veg to start with tho. i wouldnt force the lumps...and its not a competition abut who is more stubborn, not till she gets to 4 anyway...

I would persevere. Gently, of course! The variety of 'lumpiness' can vary with baby food and of course, home-made stuff as well. I found some brands were lumpier and harder than others. If she won't eat even tiny, weeny, squidgy soft lumps either, then maybe I'd quit.

That's a hard one! Let your sanity decide

The problem is I made a huuuuuuge batch of potato, kumara, pumpkin and broccoli puree the other day (as in 20 frozen containers full) so she better like it!

I was going to do them all separately so I could mix and match them but I decided to be lazy and just threw them all in the food processor together.

I have found with both mine they /would will gobble down any variation as long as it has kumara in it and in the end I just throw everything in the pot and have a cook up if I cant be bothered mucking around....

Blake loves..Kumara,Zuchine and Potato and Potato,Carrot and Parsnip....

Also put chick stock or beef stock in for taste (prob not recommended but at least it can help them eat)

I have the small-throat gene, I don't know what I was like as a baby but one of my brothers used to gag quite a lot, basically it just took him a bit longer than usual to master lumps. Perhaps try doing a bit more gradual? Mash as well as you can with a fork instead of processing it?

Oh, man, are you sure our kids haven't been influencing each other? Because Emma Rose won't eat broccoli, potato or carrot either, not unless they're pureed. Sigh. (She will eat peas, though, and corn.)

I remember reading somewhere that it takes 10 tries for a baby to decide if they like their food -- I also remember thinking, "What a freaking waste of 10 meals' worth of food, in that case."

Can you disguise them with anything else, just to get her to swallow them? Hide a vegetable in a spoon of applesauce? Or yoghurt? (I know it's gross, but that's how I finally got Emma to eat meat! I put a teeny tiny piece of steak in a spoon of yoghurt, and she ate it without complaining!)

Otherwise, just firmly tell her that if she doesn't eat her meat, she can't have her pudding. How can she have any pudding if she won't eat her meat? "We don't need no education..." Oh no, now I need to go to bed, I'm degenerating into quoting Pink Floyd lyrics...

I'd not get hard on this til she's a little bit older.

At 10 months Hannah had somehow convinced me that it caused her great agony to eat anything but custard. I played along with it for a while (what a sucker!) until it sparked Operation Take the Power Back Version 1. And then I played the "You eat this or nothing" game. She came around eventually... but like I said, this was a few months older that Mercedes.

Caitlin was the same with lumps and I just added some of her formula to the goop to make it thinnner and then gradually added less until she was eating lumpy gloop.

We've only just finished the "stage 2" gloop, me thinks we may have made too much