10 month old not interested in breakfast + fruit

[jasperc163]

DD2 has so far turned her nose up at any breakfast cereals offered to her. She is generally blw which makes it harder as she is resistant to being fed and flings the spoon around if i load it. What do you (if blw) feed at breakfast? She still has a feed first thing when she wakes up - i assume this is meaning she isn't hungry.

She is also not great with fruit (better with veg). The only thing she shows any interst in is clementines/satsumas. Any other tips for how you encouraged fruit intake at this age?

thanks alot

Have you tried Pancakes filled with berries? or breakfast muffins with fruit in them?

DD is only 6.5 months so we are just starting out with BLW. She won't be spoon fed and does like to fling the spoon , and I just let her, and sometimes the spoon makes it in after a few waves.
I tend to offer the cereals mushy for her to spoon if she wants, but keep some semi dry for her to pick up.
Malted wheats (or shreddies if you eat Nestle) are hilarious when she tries to pick them up - the pincer grip is coming along and weetabix half mushed and half still fairly firm for picking up and gnashing on.

Also she has apple rings. Banana slices. Melon. Toast with all manner of fruity mush spread on. We even did crumpets once, although the salt content means it can't be too often. I guess I just mush up some bits of fruit and lace her toast with it .

www.babyledweaning.com is great.

I give shredded wheat bitesize - covered in warm milk and my DS picks them up with his fingers.

Eggy-bread (french toast) cut into small squares is a winner too.

As for fruit, the summer time is easier as the fruit is generally sweeter and tastes better. Berries taste of cardboard IMO in winter! My LO has lots of Ella pouches in the winter + melon wedges, mango, strawberries, apples, bananas. I found putting the fruit on his plate with his main course meant he tended to eat more

At about 10 months I found I had to give my DS his breakfast food and THEN his milk from about half way through his meal. He always finishes the milk this way. If I gave him the milk first, he generally has no appitite for breakfast.

Toast, hot cross buns, mini shredded wheat things with raisins/apricots inside all worked for us.

Letting them pinch the fruit off your plate/ stealing it off theirs seemed to encourage DS to try different things, and turned his friend around from 'oh, she only eats bananas' to stuffing down a fruit salad pot

My 10mo DD bfs too when she wakes up (and at 2,4,6..) sometimes scoffs breakfast, sometimes not interested. I give her 2 or 3 kinds of fruit and a starch, her favourites are pawpaw and honeydew melon, and porridge which is made just with water but sometimes has a teaspoon of Innocent smoothie stirred in (from loaded spoon and a bit off the table too). Banana is a starch so sometimes have that instead of a grain-based thing.

I think on another thread someone mentioned making Annabel Karmel's muffins, these are good as soft texture, though must omit the tablespoon of syrup/honey and the salt and halve the cheese - so any muffin recipe will do!

With the fruit, similar idea to letting her pinch it off your plate is to prepare it at the table e.g. cut up/peel on a plate in front of you and put prepared piece on edge of plate nearest DD just within reach.