Does my baby must have veg?

[diva4mgl]

DD had always been fussy about veg and savoury. She eats only couple spoonful at dinner time. When we first started weaning she had thrush so i gave her what she liked (fruit purees) and then couple weeks later we went holiday abroad, so i gave her what she liked ( i dont mean i didnt offer her, i offer her veg and savoury every dinner but after her refusing i offered her fruit purees) and then after holiday she had really bad cough ( thought was whooping cough at hospital) she was completely of milk for 5 weeks and she only had cow and gate organic dutch apple pudding, she didnt want to have anything than that. She has been back to normal last couple weeks and i started trying give her veg but she just wont eat it. I even tried to mixed with fruit purees, or one spoonful veg and 2 spoonful desert. Noway she is having it. If i force her eat it she brings it out and everything she had during the day. Just had big fall out with DH, cause he thinks i shouldnt be doing this to her. At the moment she only eats half jar of organic butternut squash in the evening. Since we started weaning i have tried veg untill now but she is 7m and not having veg at all. Does she really need it? Is it must? Im really tired now, but i feel like i shouldn`t give up. Can anyone tell me if i was doing wrong? I have been patient untill now but after what DH called me being nasty and forcing her i feel bad.
Any advice appreciated.
THNX

i don't think you should force her to have anything.
she is still quite young and getting everything she needs from milk so it doesn't matter if she has no solids at all!

do persevere, and keep offering her veg though...

she should really have veg, she is 7months and you culd try her with finger foods as well, some cooked carrots, cucumber, etc. dd3 loves sweeter veg (sweet potatoe and carrot work well).

Don't force her. Food at 7mo isn't about "eating" in quite the same way we eat - she'll be getting her nutrients from milk.

Try giving her some bits of food to play with in her highchair. Steamed veg batons, slices of steamed apple, etc.

but obviously dont make it an issue. am more relaxed about food with 3rd child than i was with the older 2.

Don't force her to eat. You wouldn't like it if someone force fed you, would you? I know you aren't doing it to be mean, but imagine if it happened to you - you'd hate it!
And you risk turning her off eating altogether.
She will be getting the vast bulk of her nutrition form her milk still, which is as it should be. They really need hardly any food at this age. And fruit is fine too. You can keep offering small tastes of carrot or squash but please don't push it on her. Babies are born with a sweet tooth - breastmilk is very sweet - and are often naturally averse to bitter flavours.

Are you just using jars? Have you tried pureeing some stuff yourself. Carrot is usually popular as if is fairly sweet. I also found that by mixing up some of the different purees they were more acceptable (butternut squash and pear was a good combination for example).

She can't live on fruit forever, though it is still early days for her. Have you tried any dairy yet, yoghurt or cheese sauce?

Or bread and butter or lumps of cheese to suck, apple chunks to gum a bit or breadsticks....
She might enjoy feeding herself. My dd does.

bananana as well. errr cooked chicken breast strips, (silly hv says i must give her more meat, pah) also try giving her a spoon to hold as well.

She loves fruit purees, but only the jars. She is 7m but she has got no teeth yet
She loves sucking toast and biscuit,pear stick apple stick, she wont eat it. She wont touch anything homecooked unless its banana pureed. She loves yougurt, but not cheese. Very very fussy eater
So i use organic jars at least she is having organic( thats i think)
Its HV keep telling me i must offer her veg, she must think im just giving her jars and not offering veg.

Tipex I had wondered about suggesting ditching all purees and just offering finger food and milk for a couple of weeks and then starting again. Think that might really take the pressure off.

At about 6.5mths my ds was hardly taking any purees I offered him, I was getting stressed cos he wasn't eating anything, so I gave up trying to spoon-feed him and just let him explore finger foods, not worrying about how much food he was eating. Within a couple of weeks he was biting off chunks of banana, pear, steamed carrot & broccoli, toast, pasta, etc.. and he started letting me spoon feed things like porridge and mashed veg. (he of course does try to grab the spoon ). At 7.5mths he still doesn't eat very much but as long as he's getting milk, I'm offering a variety of foods, he's happy & putting on weight than I figure it's ok.
So I think what Tipex & Bozza are suggesting may work - Diva4mgl, if you are stressed about the whole food thing then your dd will pick up on it, so take the pressure off yourself about it and be confident that your dd will take what she needs when she is ready.

Thnx girls, she has been off milk for 5 weeks so at the moment she has 4 times 6oz milk but she never finish its about 20oz a day, may be less. I was worried so much when she was off milk tried everything, and now slowly she is coming back to normal.Would you recommend 20oz milk is enough for a day, she will hardly more than that so im concerned about cutting purees
I no im so sad, i just worry about everything.

20 oz is the recommended minimum up to 12 months. So absolutely fine.

really, really don't stress about it.

finger foods is a good idea

or try mixing things like avocado with banana, turns most things into baby ambrosia