Help - my 7 month old is developing a sweet tooth and clamps her mouth shut at anything savory!!

[LittleMissNorty]

DD has done really well with weaning and has both lumpy spoon feeds and finger foods. However, the last few days have been such hard work.....her savory stuff, she just clamps her mouth shut....pudding....can't get it down her quick enough.....

I really don't want this to turn into a battle of wills (I can see her looking at me sometimes as if to say, I'm not bloody eating THAT )

She also seems to prefer the jars of lumpy sludge (given only occasionally) to my nice home-cooked food

Where have I gone wrong?

Just don't offer her pudding for a few days, she'll soon suss that she needs to eat the savoury. I only ever used to give plain yogurt or fruit for pudding at this stage anyway.

Re the jars, I'm afraid some babies just have not taste. I had the opposite problem, after a couple of months of eating home-cooked food DD wouldn't touch a jar, which was a bit of a bugger when we were travelling and I needed something handy.

I know that every time some one post on here about the problem with weaning eveyone says 'try blw'...But it does work for us.

My dd is 7months too and wouldn't eat any savort stuff off the spoon too while puddings and yogurts despear in a second...

But when I put some toat, pasta or stem veg in front of her she is usually very got at destroying it.
So maybe a finger foods will be an answer for you too. HTH

yes ditch the pudding. At 7 mos it really does not matter if she doesn't eat anything in a meal

one thing i remember doing is putting sweet stuff with the savoury so lots of things like melon and cheese salad

savoury

Why not try giving her some cooked peas. Don;t mash them up or anything, just give them to her whole. They're the perfect size for baby to pick up and taste sweet-ish.

carrots roasted or slowly sweated in butter (just melt butter add carrots put lid on and cook till carrots are sweet and unctious)

sweetcorn

I am 3 weeks in at 6 1/2 months and facing the EXACT same problem norty. So thanks for posting this.

Even the veg are sweet tasting - Sweet potoato, carrot etc. have become a problem in the post two or three days.

He has rejected all greens (Courgette, peas etc.) when I tried them.. but now the rejection has moved onto even the sweeter end of the veg spectrum.

I was only giving fruit mixed with babyrice in the evening. But the yog I gave was fruity danone baby yog and he loved it.

The best outcome is that he takes in his mouth, it sits there and spits it out, but thats only the first two spoons and then after that he starts to cry.

I would just not offer anything, but he is already waking 2-3 times during the night and I am desperate for him to eat properly during the day.

dp always winces when remembering swapping his ghost town single for the recently released "too shy" by Kajagooley or who ever they were called in sympathy

Great - thanks for the ideas.....unfortunately, most finger foods get thrown across the room.....she might lick the butter off some bread but all other pasta/veg/etc end up on the floor for the dog ...I'll stop the fruit and yogurts for a few days and see how we get along!

at completly wrong thread

I done that myself only a few days ago

btw Kajagoogoo

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Different parts of the tongue are attracted to different tastes. Sweet, savoury, sour, etc. Not sure which bit likes what taste though!

I was in the supermarket today and spotted these new ready made foods - pouches, as opposed to jars. Anyway, the theme seemed to be veg but disguised in fruit. So, brocolli, pears and peas for example. It seems to be all made organic etc. and no water added. But I laughed when i saw the description saying "best of all babies love it" and I was thinking... not surprised as the above mixture was 80% pear!!!!!

Anyway, i thought it was an interesting approach and if my LO keeps refusing the veg it has given me some inspiration for mixing in some other sweeter flavours with it if I can't tough it out and get him to eat plain ol' veg himself.

DS has done this a couple of times. The first time I added fruit to his savoury mush, eliminated all other sweet stuff, and gradually reduced the fruit each day until he was back to pure savoury. That worked the first time. The second time he did it I started to BLW and that worked.

Well DD has been to nursery today and eaten all her savoury and very little of her pudding....AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH.....obviously its mummy's cooking ...