It's sweet potato or nothing Mum!

[giggles]

Well, we have been solid feeding for about 2 weeks now and I have hit a stumbling block.

Rice cereal on it's own is a spat out!!!
Apple and rice cereal - spat out!!!
Banana and rice cereal - spat out!!!

The only thing that has tickled her fancy is sweet potato which she has had for the past seven days, hence why I am now trying to introduce another food.

What should I do - keep persisting with one of these, try something else or just feed her sweet potato forever :rolleyes:

HELP please!

[tyler's mum]

tyler also loves sweet potato she would eat it every day if i would let her,,, i dont have that problems as tyler would eat pretty much anything:rolleyes: ...lol

all i can say is just keep feeding the sweet potato but also just keep trying different and new things,, she will end up getting sick of eating the same things every day... good luck...

[Manxie]

Kirsty

Yay I am not alone. Lucy is almost exactly the same but she now also spits out sweet potatoe:rolleyes: I am so over this feeding lark. She is starving hungry but wont take anything much apart from boob and when she did have some rice cereal she got so constipated that she screamed for 2 hours (she never screams usually:eek: )

Hope you get some good advice I can pinch.

My question to add to yours is it worth trying something like yoghurt? or is this a "bad" thing to start them off on? So far I've done rice cereal, apple, pear and sweet potatoe.

HELP ME TOOOOOOO:D :D

[Peaceangels]

Yep, my two loved the sweet potatoe too (& still do!).

I think the key word here is "sweet" - it is a nice tasting vegetable, so of course they are going to like it!

Have you tried mixing other (mashed) veges with sweet potatoe? Just make sure there is more sweet potatoe than any other veg., so its flavour will still be the strongest.

[Shazbutt]

Have you tried mixing other (mashed) veges with sweet potatoe? Just make sure there is more sweet potatoe than any other veg., so its flavour will still be the strongest.

That would be my advice too Kirsty....do that and just gradually increase the other vegie bit by bit.....unitl you've got her eating just the 'other' by itself!

Nothing i could do would get Mac to eat mashed potato though, no matter how small a taste i'd mix in with her other food....she still won't eat it to this day! I'm hoping Charlee will be different though....

[giggles]

Will try that. Is broccoli any good to puree?

And yoghurt? Ok to try at this age or do we have to wait a bit longer. She is just about 6 months. A week shy........

[Rainbowbrite]

Broccoli purees great if you cook it well. As does zucchini, its a really mushy veg.

RB

[giggles]

Success! broccoli is a goer :)

Will give the banana another go tomorrow morning for brekky.....

Thanks for all of your advice.

[lukaelmo]

Little dude hasn't tried broccoli yet... but he had a yoghurt phase, so I stuck yoghurt in everything, chicken and yoghurt, banana and yoghurt, tofu and yoghurt... you get the idea!

[♥Heaven Sent♥]

a good one is apple and pear puree my dd loved it and also can do pear on it own you just cook it in a tiny bit of water till soft and then puree it.

[Snugglepot]

Pumpkin is another great first food, as well as carrots because like Sweet Potatoe they are fairly sweet.

I also found cooking up a batch of vegies in chicken stock is really tasty for Kyle, its a bit like a minestrone soup. Creamed cottage cheese in vegies is great too. Kyle loves it!

Try as many vegies first as possible and then head to the sweet stuff like fruit. Yogurt is great, but try a few stoons first, Kyle vomitted it up a bit to start with.