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Not a big lover of strong tastes- please tell me I'm worrying over nothing!

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Steena · 29/02/2008 21:35

Hi Everyone,

My little man is 7.5 months old and I started gently weaning him at around 4 months. He started fantastically but I only started getting him up to 3 meals a day around a month ago.

He will eat any baby cereal I put in front of him but is terribly reluctant when it comes to stronger flavours. He loves avocado, banana and mascarpone so I try him with something new before reverting to the old faithful if it's just an absolute refusal. He will also allow a little sweet veg and will allow fruit/dried apricots at a push. He can get himself really worked up and I feel like I'm torturing him plus I don't want any of my anxiety to brush off on him and have him associating mealtimes with horror! I always try the old 1:20 new to old mix and gradually increase the newer flavour but he can get really upset.

He is fantastic with finger foods and I manage to get a varied diet down him that way as he'll happily munch on anything I put down but who knows how much of it gets flung on the floor!

He was only 4lb 5oz at birth due to PET/FGR but rapidly shot up through breastfeeding (he put on about 1lb per week) and has levelled out at just a fraction under the average line. Am I worrying for no reason? Will he just sort himself out?? I do have a tendency to worry myself silly so any suggestions/comments/tips would be greatly appreciated!

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S1ur · 29/02/2008 21:39

I wouldn't worry. He's enjoying and exploring his food for the most part. It doesn't really matter how much goes on the floor. His main form of nutrition is milk for this first year.

So reassess when he is a year old.

Giving a wide variety of flavours in finger food form will give him the opportunity to try them as he feels like, so maybe a little lick or a great big munch. But it doesn't matter, its all for practice and fun at the moment.

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Steena · 06/03/2008 10:30

Thank you so much- that has helped a great deal. I just give him anything new in fingerfood form so he can be in control of it and then try getting some of his reliables down him whilst he's distracted!

Thanks again.

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ruddynorah · 06/03/2008 11:54

you don't need to ry to distract. just give him the finger food which he obviously loves. ditch the spoons. if you're anxious about it read up on baby led weaning. no need for spoons at all

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