LO OD'ed on a food. Rejecting it. How to make her eat it again?

[Blessed_Mom]

Hi,

My DD is 10 mo old and has just started solids. When she was 9 mo old she had a major growth spurt and that was about the time she really liked avocados. Of course, happy me fed her avocados like they were going out of style.

Now suddenly - she wants nothing to do with them. She is an allergic baby and eats very few foods. I was so happy Avocado was one of them.

Now I am heart-broken and don't know how to get her to eat them again - atleast in small quantities.

Any ideas? Similar stories....wwyd?? Help

[Kelly1101]

Have you tried mixing with another food? Avacado mixes really well with a lot of other fruits.

[Blessed_Mom]

No...I should try that.....I will.

But - she was eating half an avocado in one sitting.... will she ever go back to that soon? Is this just an hiatus?

[Kelly1101]

I'd say so, the more time goes by, the more food she'll be eating in general.

Have you seen this website? http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/avo...odrecipes.html

[PreggieUBA2C]

I use avocadoes in a lot of dips, raw puddings and salads. I have no idea what she can eat, but mangoes blend beautifully with avocado, as do dates (with fresh-squeezed lemon juice for lemon pudding), bananas and apple sauce, and even liver pate with a bit of raw apple cider vinegar (organic with the mother) and cream to make it oh-so-smooth .

Does she like dips? Puddings?

Of course, she may be rejecting them for good reason too.

Otoh, she may just not be able to eat them from overkill; when I was 5 yrs old, I ate an entire plate of broccoli, ended up with a flu, threw it up, and then couldn't eat it again until I was 13 yrs old. Now I can't eat enough of it; it's so yummy.

[Blessed_Mom]

Aww - 90% of the foods you mentioned , I cannot give to her (like dairy, citrus, acv etc.)
I can try the blending with bananas and apples....



Thank you for the link Kelly...it gives me hope. More work but ...still...

[tanyalynn]

Are you veg*n? If you eat meat, that really opens up the possibilities for calorie-dense foods--if you hadn't already considered meats--stuff like meatballs and drumsticks are very portable.

Maybe she's just burnt out, or maybe she's sort of full-up on one or more of the nutrients avocado provides, and her body wants something else. I've had some odd food ups and downs, in terms of my preferences, and when it's healthy food, it often seems nutritionally-based. Clearly, my craving for pastries is not in that category.

[Blessed_Mom]

No we eat lamb, chicken and seafood. I am giving her pureed chicken which she eats but when I tried feeding her small pieces of chicken she chewed on them forever and seemed bored

She hasn't developed her pincer grasp yet and I am not doing BLW (yet). She is close though and then I may do a combination. Currently I feed her small(est) chunks (like avocado) and purees.


ETA: Tanya - what does it mean when you say a drumstick is portable?

[sunnygir1]

At 10 months I wouldn't worry about it. Just keep offering her healthy foods (that aren't a risk for her) and let her decide which to eat. She's still on breastmilk or formula for nutrition, I assume. A month isn't that long; give her time.

At 3 I am still going through this with my dd. She will refuse a particular food for a while, but if I keep offering she will eventually try it again. I don't think it's a big deal at all.

[tanyalynn]

Originally Posted by Blessed_Mom

ETA: Tanya - what does it mean when you say a drumstick is portable?

We have food allergies and my kids are 3 and 6, and so for playgroups or potlucks or whatnot, there's usually nothing high calorie that my kids can eat, from what the others bring to share, so having foods that are easy to cook ahead of time and take with us is valuable to me. I cook up batches of drumsticks or meatballs at the beginning of the week and bring them to events. Occasionally I'm forced to bring, say, leftover stew, but a drumstick at a picnic table works ever so much better.

[phathui5]

At her age, I wouldn't worry about it much either. She might just need a break from it, and pushing it could have the opposite effect of what you want.

[claddaghmom]

DD did that...and with avacados too.

She won't even so much as lick an avacado now.

She did it with bananas, scallops, beans and grapefruits, too.

It's a shame b/c it was easy for them to eat, but I haven't been able to convince her to return to them so oh well.