How to deal with baby not liking vegetables?
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Are you offering them in meals with herbs and spices etc
@Ela so even if she only has one or two spoonfuls of the vegetables all day and nothing else apart from milk that’s fine? I find myself comparing what she has to other babies and it makes me worry a lot because she’s on 2nd percentile so I feel like I’m doing something wrong and I should be feeding her more so I think giving fruit is better as at least she eats it
@Charlie yep but unfortunately she just knows and won’t eat it
Do you offer any other things? Like meat, eggs, oatmeal? So for example today I did for my daughter meatballs from chicken breast cooked in tomato sauce and had pasta and broccoli next to it. Or salmon and potato and asparagus or any other veg. Or millet with some fruits and yogurt. The more verity you offer the better and I’d say now 3 meals a day
And you are not wrong, she will get there don’t worry! Just continue and try to give her options. If she won’t be eating maybe ask for blood test for ferritin and iron - I also red that babies with these deficit have lower appetite.
I just saw another method. Put a plate during one meal a day with verity of veggies ex tomato, cucumber, pepper + something that your baby likes. Put the plate that the baby can reach it and you also try things from it but do not encourage or anything let the plate be there. Do it for 14 days and in theory your baby should start picking things at some point
@Ela thank you so much! I will try these tips and hopefully it will help
I would drop fruits a bit. She is still getting everything she needs from milk so you don’t need to give her a safe meal. The dietician I follow says - parents role is to offer and babies to decide what they eat if they don’t we accept - our goal in weaning is to expose babies to food.