Baby cries over taste of food

[LDNmummy]

My DD has been weaning for about a week now but she is not enjoying the taste of food.

She has showed a huge enthusiasm for bread and rusk biscuits but nothing else. She likes grabbing the food to put in her mouth, but once it hits her tongue she grimaces and spits it back out.

Sometimes she will cry but still eat the food. This happens when I give her mashed foods. She will cry at first after a previous spoonful but still try putting the food in her mouth if I hold it near her face with the next spoonful. Then she spits it back out and gets upset.

Eventually she gets too upset to eat enough and I give her breastmilk.

I am buying her a high chair this weekend and am planning to just lay the food out on her tray so she can pick at it in her own time, but is this normal?

"She has showed" - "She has shown"

I think you have a good plan but reading the baby led weaning book by Gill Rapley may help you to be more confident. My dd was very similar and now, at 11 months eats anything but kiwi. The main thing is not to force her and help her see it as a game. Until she's one milk is far more important anyway. She's only been trying things for a week so you really don't need to worry.

That is completely normal. We are doing baby led weaning and that is exactly what we do. Don't worry if your DD doesn't pick up thefood to begin with or if she spits it out. She will eventually pick up the food, chew and swallow. I have been giving my DD sticks of food for about 3/4 weeks now andshe has only just begun to do this. AS long as she is getting all the bm she wants, it doesn't matter how much she eats so try not to worry about it too much.

If you want to do a bit of spoon feeding too, you can put some food on the spoon and give the spoon to her to feed herself. Google 'baby led weaning' and you'll find loads of better information. I would link you but I can't as I'm on my phone. Good luck.

Just putting stuff that you are also eating on her tray and letting her get on with it is the best plan - that way she can see that you enjoy the same things.

Its very early days, so just don't stress about it. And I'd not give her rusks - they are full of sugar, so you might as well just give her a rich tea biscuit