starting a war with a very very sweet tooth!!

[neshi]

Hi,

My DS is now 6 and a half months and we started weaning at 5 and half.
He was always a very hungry baby and when we started weaning veg purees would go down like a dream...he was opening his mouth way before the spoon was ready! Fruit was also great!

Now, all the sudden he discovered he only likes the sweet stuff, like fruit and yogurt (I give him rachels organics)!! The weird thing is that this happened from one day to another, literally!

Every time I have to feed him now he just shuts his mouth or otherwise creams as soon as he realises what's in the spoon. I still make him eat anyway but with a lot of singing and dancing!!! Then when the fruits comes in...just watch his mouth opening wide again!!

I've tried making all the sweet veg pures, sweet potato, butternut squash, peas...nothing seems to please him anymore!

Does anyone has any suggestion or has been trough the same? this is honestly driving me nuts... surely he can't live out of fruit and yogurt...

Won't kill him. :)

You can try mixing sweet things with non sweet things (pork and apple), peach and sweet potato go together surprisingly well, or add in new flavours like mint to potato.

Personally I just did baby lead weaning and didn't both with the whole puree thing nor fussed about whether they preferred sweet or savoury things, their palates develop as they try foods. They will always prefer sweet things, milk is sweet, it's what they know.

As they grow they do develop a wider range of tastes. Mine love curry and broccoli and stilton now. Would not have touched a sprout a year ago and now love them. It's a development thing - relax. :)

i would just give him stuff he can feed himself and let him get on with it!

you could try just not having "puddings" for a while, he'll soon forget about them