Doesn't really want veggies...

[racheeeee]

So the kid likes fruit. He doesn't like vegetables. He is almost six months and has been eating solids for about 4 weeks now. He likes cereal, bananas, mangoes, and these little pots of organic puree that you can buy at the Unicorn in Chorlton...

So, I prepare the veggies, offer them to him...and he is not happy with me after that. So I give him the fruit...which he LOVES.

So am I ruining him? Am I creating a rod for my own back??? I fully intend for him to eat veggies...but at the moment I don't see his food as his main source of nutrition, I really see it as practice for his real eating in the upcoming months. He's not so keen on eating full stop really....

Any opinions (besides my mothers) would be appreciated.

I'd say no, no rod for back and no ruining.

I think the rod for back and ruining would come if you were intent on him eating veggies against his will. There's nothing more likely to put a toddler off his food than a stressed mum trying to ram it in.
Right now he is just practising with the reality that there is more out there than milk - but milk is all he needs until he is 12 months old - you are dead right.
My DS never really bothered about eating until he was 13 months old. He never bothered, I never bothered about him refusing or throwing it up. At 13 months he grabbed handfuls of smoked mackerel risotto from my plate and started stuffing it in. We never looked back.
Just go with your instincts

fine with fruit.
mine loved blended tinned peaches in fruit juice - easy!

Oh, in a few weeks try butternut squash and pear puree. Try some yourself first. May end up that your DS doesnt get a look in! Or why not apple and pea puree? Babies have no sense of what is supposed to go with anything else, and it might keep your mum happy too. One baby and one mother happy. It's a recipe for bliss! And if he doesn't like it then back to the fruit with no hassle

Are you pureeing the veg? He might find finger food more appealling. Try well cooked carrots or broccoli florets perhaps.

don't worry. my ds had nothing but a couple of spoons of fruit purees until he was 9 months. when his appetite increases he'll eat more. there is not need to rush weaning - it can be a very slow process.

I assume you've tried the sweeter tasting veg so tbh I would forget about it.

A lot of babies don't really take to veg until much older - like when they are about 4 years old if my dd is anything to go by! She will now eat a good range. As others have said, take it slowly - this idea of there being only one 'window of opportunity' when you can introduce new food is not true ime.

Thanks so much for all the advice! Tonight for dinner he had Pear and carrot puree and he seemed to like it! Tomorrow, parsnip and pear! I made a LOAD of pear puree up today, so this kid is in luck!

Thanks again!

Pear is the answer to everything that my DD turns her nose up at and I just put a little bit less in each time...