What's wrong with bananas?
It seems like ages since we began the mammoth task of weaning. But how do you really know what you are doing when you haven't done it before?! It really is a case of absorbing advice that comes in from many sources and filtering what you need, or are happy with, and the rest is just guess work. If Emily only knew that we didn't have a clue she would be packing her little bag and running off to some parents who already have 10 kids! Its just as well...
So the baby rice went ok and then a bit of yummy carrot that kinda went ok too, and so then onto lovely pear and apples. Now that she has a taste for the delicious fruit she no longer wants anything savoury. She keeps her mouth firmly closed shut when trying to spoon in carrots, potatoes, parsnip etc and when the pear and apples arrive she practically grabs the bowl from my hand!
So I thought as she likes her fruit so much I would try her with something different. Some yummy fresh bananas, pureed into a lovely mush. But nope, mouth closed firmly shut and not happy at all.
What can be possibly wrong with such a lovely fruit as banana - so yellow and so tasty? I guess, as Woz says, she must be a pearitarian. We will have to just be patient and hope she develops a taste for other stuff soon and in the meantime just hold our noses at those explosively fruity nappies.
Everything is wrong with bananas.... I hate them. It is the smell and the consistancy. There is a reason why we evoloved,... to get away from bananas and find lovelier food to eat. hehe. Sorry, not much help on this one.
Apparently, it takes about 10 tastes of something before a baby can really decide whether they like it or not (less for apples and pears though!)
So, just keep offering small tastes of different fruit and veg. It might help not to offer veggies then fruit at the same meal - Emily is obviously smart enough to realise that the good stuff is coming!
And don't stress - the first year is more about trying out different tastes than nutrition - she's still getting most of her needs from the lovely milk she's getting, and if she's getting at least one bottle of formula a day, you know she's getting all the iron and vitamins from that.
Once she's over six months she can have ready brek for breakfast (we use follow-on milk and some fruit puree in it, and Cordy still loves it!) and that has got loads of good stuff in it.
I've written a novel!
Lots of love
(lovely) Auntie Lydia
Add some warm custard to your bananas Max - you used to love it!