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[swaddlebees]

I can't blame the poor kid, have you tasted that crap ! I love the idea of the garden fresh purees, the taste difference is just crazy. I hate baby food purees...i wish more parents would follow baby led weaning, i have a whole section in my handbook on the benefits of it ! Not that any follow it

[Daycare Mommy]

I mix it with rice cereal or mixed cereal...makes no difference. If it's not sweet, he doesn't like it..and I'm not about to put sugar in it.

I have tried 1 bite of peaches for every 2 bites of greens..same deal. No crying when he gets the peaches...screaming bloody murder when he gets the greens.

Oh well...maybe I should take Quality's advise and just give up. It WOULD be easier. Though, I'm not the type that takes the easy route as a norm.::

I mean like tiny amounts of green (like you can't see or taste) and gradually up it. Maybe mix in some sweet potatoes for sweetness and then wean off the sweet potato part of the mixture. He can very gradually get used to it. I know that's got to really stink with the shreiking (hugs to you for having to deal with that! ), but he's only 8 months old and just starting out with foods. Frustrating as this may be, he's by no means a lost cause at this point.

[QualiTcare]

you're not supposed to introduce baby food fruit to infants until after they've been eating veggies and meat flavored foods for awhile. my pediatrician told me this early on with my first child and said if they taste fruit before they're adapted to veggies/meat then they will never want to eat anything but fruit.

my guess is this is exactly what the parents did - gave the baby fruit thinking it would be a treat and she/he would LOVE it. honestly, if my pediatrician hadn't mentioned that, i probably would've introduced fruits much earlier - although it made perfect sense after hearing it.

i would stop feeding him/her fruits at ALL and tell the parents to do the same. after not having fruit for awhile, the baby will be hungry and those veggies will look damn good.

by the way, the kids i "gave up on" were ones whose parents didn't care AT ALL. most of them were poor, DHS clients, and half of them didn't even have a job. they would do whatever was EASIEST - not what was best. so, yeah, i'd attempt to get them to work with me, but after awhile - there really is no point. there's no point in fighting with a kid to eat veggies IF the mom is gonna take him/her home and feed 'em banana pudding. like i said, that's normally not my logic - but beating a dead horse does get old.

[professionalmom]

Have you tried mixing the greens with other foods? My DD LOVED bananas - still does. She'll be 2 in a couple weeks and last week she pulled a dinning room chair into the kitchen, grabbed a banana, peeled it (where did she learn how to do THAT!), and had it 1/2 eaten before I got out of the bathroom!

When she was on purees, I had to mix bananas with everything else I served her - even the lasagna dinners! Gross, I know, but that's the only way I could get her to eat anything else. Sometimes a little of the sweet fruit can take the bitterness off the greens.

Otherwise, cut out the fruit all together until this one gets fully adjusted to the greens.

[Daycare Mommy]

Oh and another thing. I always gave the babyfood before the bottle. Get em while they are hungrier and less apt to be so picky while gradually mixing in the greens. Bottle after.