September 05, 2004
Carrots
Dorothy has now had her first "real" food - that is, a pureed version of something that an adult would eat (unlike the rice cereal, which is appealing only to silverfish - it tastes like library paste).
She's had carrots at dinnertime for two nights now. We probably managed to get a teaspoon or two of it into her each night, which is actually pretty good for a first baby food. That's in addition to the couple of teaspoons that decorated her face, hands, and bib each time.
She doesn't absolutely hate the carrots, but she doesn't like them much, either. It takes progressively more and more antics from Mommy and Daddy to make her open her mouth for another bite. She discovered pretty early on that we couldn't stuff a spoon in her mouth if she pursed her lips, but she couldn't help smiling a big open smile if we made enough faces and silly noises. Eventually she had to refuse to look at us to avoid having to grin and let us poke another spoonful into her mouth.
We stopped feeding her before she got really upset, since we don't want her to associate food with stress and unhappiness. I think it will take a little while before she really likes the solid food, but she's not too unhappy so far. Of course, we haven't seen a carroty diaper yet, which might dim Mommy's and Daddy's enthusiam for the whole project. ;-)
Posted by Elizabeth Nugent at September 5, 2004 11:17 PMWhat's wrong with associating food with stress and unhappiness? Its when I quit associating food with stress and unhappiness that I started having to watch my weight. Hmm... food for thought. :-P
Posted by: Elizabeth D at September 7, 2004 09:00 AMI think the problem here is the food choice. Try using your blender to puree some deep dish pepperonni pizza...I can even have some expressed delivered since Boston probably doesn't serve real pizza.....that would certainly make her a happy camper!
Posted by: Tom at September 7, 2004 03:26 PM