please help ... new weaner screaming in pain

[busybaby]

My 23.5 week old dd has had 4 days of carrot puree for lunch now. Each time approx. 2 hours after eating nearly a whole ice-cube of it (and loving it, incidentally) she is screaming - not just crying - apparently with tummy pain and farts like my dh!!
Am I doing something wrong?

Have oyu tried her on anything else busybaby? If so what is the effect of that?

We haven't yet - probably should have, but didn't really think carrot could upset anyone that much. She's also teething so wondered if it was coincidental but after 4 days I'm thinking it might actually be the food.
We want to start evening solids as well as she's waking earlier and earlier every day at the moment. Thought we might try some apple tonight - what do you think? Or should we stick to babyrice?

my dd's did that with pure carrott. i mixed it with a bit of potato which seemed to help. i think i also sometimes mixed it with apple or pear (sounds mingin' i know but they liked it)

i didnt bother with baby rice. seemed tasteless to me, although i did sometimes use it to thicken things that were a bit runny (like pureed pears)

I have been mixing it with a little formula to get the right consistency but not very much. Will try adding another ingredient.

Did you find this with anyhing else nailpolish?

I would try either mixing it with baby rice, or try something different. Perhaps just give her babyrice, which as I understand it is about as bland as you can get, and then at least you can pinpoint if its specific to carrot. I wouldnt have thought carrot would upset them, but my dd refused to eat it on its own, in fact its only thing she has declined. Good luckX

All these purees have less calories in them (per volume) than formula or breastmilk. Just give her more milk if she's hungry!

I really would stop offering solids for a while if they're causing her so much pain.

(Does she normally have formula or breastmilk? Could it be the formula that causes the problem?)

I add parsnips to carrots - my dd loves it!

no, i dont think so, it was just the carrotts here (pure carrotts)

lentil soup (later on) made her windy and sore tummy (still does)

Thanks pinkmama. We started on carrot rather than babyrice for exactly that reason, and because the carrots were grown organically by dh's fair hand!

It might be best to back off for another couple of weeks? Give her gut some more time to mature...
If that doesn't suit you, try giving pumpkin instead, it's supposed to be very digestible and hardly anybody is allergic to it (unlike carrots).

I wouldn't give her apple in the evenings now, you might end up being up all night if it doesn't agree with her.

She is on formula all the time (much to my dissapointment), so it's not that.
She had taken 5oz formula before the carrot today. I offered more formula afterwards but she just played with it.

i think i only gave dd's fruit purees for the first few weeks - then stepped up to veg. maybe leave the veg for a while yet?

We were worried about that with starting evening food geekgrrl.

The only thing with leaving it for a bit is that she is demanding extra feeds in the day, and occasionally at night (she has been sleeping through for many weeks now) so we thought she was ready and so close to the 26 weeks - do you think it would make that much difference?

no, i think now you have started weaning you should just continue.

i meant just give her fruit purees for the time being, a couple of weeks or so then veg after that.

just go with the flow, your instinct is usually right ime

I definately think she was ready to start - we've been thinking it for a while but have been holding off for as long as possible until she started demanding these night feeds as it is so unusual for her.
I think a good plan woud be to try fruit for a bit instead, like you say nailpolish.
She did suffer with awful colic until she was nearly 4 months old, but that was because her latch on was poor because of an undiagnosed tongue-tie. Changing to bottles sorted it out virtually immediately. So I wasn't expecting solids to cause problems.

Will try fruit tomorrow and let you know how we get on ...

I don't think there is anything wrong with stopping again if it's not working out, particularly after such a short time. I did this too - but I'd started later, at 26 weeks or so, and it wasn't going well - too much tongue-thrusting, constipation etc., so I left it for another 2 weeks and everything went fine then.
Personally, I would stop. Too much hassle and no real benefit - doesn't sound like it's going to make her sleep better at the moment! I am sure I read some studies saying that a lot of children's sleep patterns worsen when solids are introduced because of the tummy upsets.