6 month old shuddering when eating

[Gem13]

Having got to 6 months exclusively breastfeeding, I thought it would be easy to go onto solids with DD but she is not enjoying it.

Unlike DS who eats everything and anything, she is pulling faces and shuddering at almost everything.

Babyrice and sweet potato are ok, banana not great but today she turned down potato! Carrot is not a favourite while cauliflower, melon and even apple (!) made her look so reproachfully at me I felt terribly mean!

DH and I remembered the 'Supertasters' from one of Robert Winston's programmes and I'm fearing she may be one of them. Anyone got any helpful first foods or thoughts on this?

BTW - she likes the idea of food and can wolf down the baby rice and sweet potato so I don't think that she is rejecting food itself, just the majority of ones on offer!

Hi, I bfed exclusively to 6 months and dd is definitely choosey about what she eats. She espicially dispises carrots, apples & potatoes. Once I quit trying the pureed single flavours she got abit more into the swing of things. Try pasta, I mix it with tomato sauce that I made for us. She also loves cauliflower cheese. Apart from apple she loves all fruits I have tried espicially apricots. It is abit soul distroying toiling over some annabel karmel masterpiece just to have your baby shudder with disgust. I work on a rule that if I think it is grim she will too. I remember butternut squash and pear making us both retch.

It's probably just getting used to new tastes, I would guess. If you've only ever tasted milk, solid food is probably an amazing and surprising sensation! Ds often used to pull a face at new food, but would wolf it down so I was reassured that he did like it (although he did reject cauliflower and broccoli, maybe it's a strong taste for babies?).
She'll probably start getting into new tastes soon, at the moment it's just getting used to the new sensations

Are you sure it's not the consistency that is maybe too lumpy?
my ds loved my carrot/potato/chicken mush - but then one day kept spitting it out with a shudder. I opened a jar to get him to eat something - and to me it tasted more or less the same - but was really smooth.
I tried him again on my stuff the next day and he was fine until he got a little lumpy bit and made the same face. So I mushed it with the spoon and he ate the rest of it!

Don't think it's the consistency as everything is pureed to within an inch of its life. I'm sure it's the flavour which is the issue. Mixed some carrot in with the sweet potato last night and that went down well. Am on the hunt for a butternut squash today as that is similar to sweet potato.

Just going to be a case of trying lots of things I think.

My children sometimes used to do that shuddering. I think it's just a reflex action, a bit like us pulling a face if we taste something bitter or very cold. Good luck - weaning's one of my most unfavourite baby tasks!

Don't be too disheartened. I think you'll find that even if they don't like a particular food one week - if you try it the next week after a bit of a break they always seems to like it! I also found that thinking things were dd's favourite was also a bad thing to do as for some reason - she would then just go off it! Thank god for the freezer...so if they do go off things - you can store them up for a few weeks down the line!!