At what point do I give up?
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Topic: At what point do I give up?
Posted By: Maya
Subject: At what point do I give up?
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 8:02pm
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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? -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Lissy
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 8:35pm
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I am a softy so would probably give in for a bit longer..... ------------- Harlan Drew DOB: 06.12.06 & Stepmum to Ethan & Christian, DOB: 25.02.99 |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 8:37pm
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...
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 8:43pm
Oh yes it is! 
Seriously tho, I like the mixing fruit and veg idea. She eats kumara and marrow, I think coz they're sweetish, but no broccoli, potato or carrot, and definitely no lumps. Sienna isn't fussy, she takes after her father ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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gandt wrote:Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 8:45pm
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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 
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 8:49pm
| Lol I hear ya! Isla is our little fruit queen! She was happy as with grandma's vege brew, but she wont stomach my cooking,...the look on her face is like we trying to poison her! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 8:50pm
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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! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 9:11pm
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I did a huge vege shop today planning to do that,..might be wise to do a wee bit at a time then since she hasnt liked my cooking at all so far
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 9:18pm
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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. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 9:20pm
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LOL I can picture you to trying to out do each other. |
Posted By: Kelpa
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 9:30pm
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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) -------------  
 
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Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 10:30pm
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DD won't eat lumps yet either, I think she is a bit older than the gremlins? nearly 8 months anyway. She also does the lovely gagging thing - such a drama queen! I am talking to my Plunket nurse about it in a week so will let you know what she suggests. I have no idea what to do either.
Sorry - not much help! But I feel your lumpy pain! 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 10:40pm
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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? ------------- |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 03 May 2007 at 10:51pm
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i say give up now...I hate veges - wont eat them...I also hate chewing on bones (chicken fish meat etc...), I hate the pith on oranges (my mum will still peel them for me to get me to eat them if i am sick!! truly!!!)
my mother invented womble beet (silverbeet) and a version of bubble and squeak...til i got old enough to spring her and never ate it again without complaint! I am picky!!! so go on...give up let her pick....it never hurt me...i dont think? LOL
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Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 12:11am
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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... |
Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 7:37am
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It will be the lumps. It took jayde ages to eat lumpy food with the reflux if i tried to force her she would just vomit it straight back up. to this day she still has the 6month plus baby muesli for breakfast.
Stop stressing out, maybe try her every so often and if she refuses dont make it into a big thing. ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 8:09am
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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. |
Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 1:55pm
Yeah I'd give it a while longer too. Ella's same age and won't tolerate lumps. Or veges by themselves! She just gags and gags on stuff she doesn't like until she throws up - it's lurvely  ------------- Andie |
Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 2:51pm
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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
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Posted By: LockieandLiam
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 4:32pm
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My DS didn't eat lumpy stuff until he was about 9 months old so I would just go with the pureed for now, it worked with my man. He is now 13 months and I am still giving him stage 3. I can still remember the time when he gagged and threw up everywhere once he had eaten the lumps in the earlier days of trying!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kelpa
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 4:32pm
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I just read to mix in stewed apples with everything...and gradually wean them off onto their veges...Who knows? Mmmmm yummo Stewed appleas and pumkin.... ha ha I had a friend whos little girl Lily hated veges so jo used to do one mouth of veges and shovel in one mouth of custard so it was this big emulsion of veges and custard YUCK!!!! She eventually came around...
I reckon..at their age you can just try them...if they dont want it ...forget about that dinner time and try it again.... -------------
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 6:24pm
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james was arfull with soilds he wouldnt take them till he was 7 months we kept him om smooth for awhile and solwly put surly put lumbs in now you cant stop him eating dont worry hun it will all work out ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 8:48pm
| Kobe didnt eat lumpy food till he was about 18months, he would gag on everything and throw up everywhere, and still does sometimes. He couldnt even eat a hot chip without gagging, also prefered the veges to fruit and is still not a huge fruit eater. Addison on the other hand will eat anything and everything. I just give her whatever kobe is having (normally cheerios, brocolli, carrots and bread roll or variation of) and she eats more than him. I think I wouldnt worry about it, well not force the issue anyway unless you really think its her being cheeky rather than not able to handle lumps. Also Kobe found the baby food with lumps the worst, if it was kind of runny he thought he could just swallow it, he couldnt move his tougue around the right way to shift the lumps if that makes sense. |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 04 May 2007 at 9:00pm
So I guess I just give up then  . I'm not the best at admitting defeat. I have to say the gremlins are just *huge* eaters, today they ate a whopping half a can of pureed apple between them for lunch 
You could be right about the reflux thing tho Maria, maybe I shouldn't be so mean, maybe it is actually upsetting her  ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
(02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 05 May 2007 at 9:20am
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Emma just introduce it perhaps a bit slower. Certain foods actually have a tendency to cause more gas and discomfort in certain babies and they will stay clear of those foods. I was just lucky that McKayla did that with anything and everything that is bad for you. (except for chocolate.)
Just perhaps make one teaspoon of veggies for her and mix it with some fruit, so her body can get use to digesting it. I didnt like certain veggies growing up and we were never forcefed but had to eat one small bite of everything. And now I just love my veggies. McKayla didnt eat mince or red meat at all and I did slowed down totally with it and mix one spoon with like 6 other spoon fulls of other food and now she will eat mince just by itself. So dont really give up just go on a slower plan of attack. Something that McKayla loved was to mix mash with some avo. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: emmaohara
Date Posted: 06 May 2007 at 9:16am
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Ben was the same and still is at a year, he will find the lumps in his food and then push them out of his mouth!!! Very frustrating. I spoke to plunket about it, they said keep trying. Hes better now that he feeds himself finger foods but most of it still comes back out.
I say keep going at it, I keep trying hopefully one day we'll get there!!!
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