I don't know what to do! Korbyn HATES baby food! I've been slowly getting her on baby food since she was five months and now that she's 6 1/2 months, it's like she's made up her mind that she does not have to eat it if she doesn't want to. I don't know if it's just the texture or the taste but she absolutely refuses to eat it. She may take a couple of good bites but then that's it, she screams until you get the food out of her face. We've tried everything. Even her teacher at daycare said that it's like she's gone backwards, she was better at eating it when we first started but now she wants nothing to do with it. I know that some babies really just aren't thrilled about eating baby food and that it usually takes time and I'm not so concerned that she doesn't like to eat the food, but I'm more concerned that she needs to start getting in the nutrition that the fruits and veggies offer.
I think I know exactly what it is. This girl is going to be extremely hard-headed. She alredy knows exactly what she wants and she WILL let you know it. She wants a dang bottle and not the food and she knows that if she continues to scream and cry while we're feeding her that eventually we will have to give her a bottle. My mom mentioned that when I was younger they made "feeders" that you could put the baby food in and it allowed the baby to get accustomed to the taste and texture first and then try to feed them with a spoon so it's not such a big change all at once. I'm sure they don't make those anymore for a reason, but I've got to try something. I think I'm just going to take a cheap bottle, cut a pretty big slit in the nipple and mix some food with her formula. I'm sure if I told my dr. I was doing this they would have a cow but I don't know what else to do! So we'll see how it goes!
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