First Vegetable

Amelia's pediatrician had indicated that after Amelia has had rice cereal a few times that I could start introducing orange and yellow fruits and vegetables. Yesterday was that day! I decided to go with carrots since they are a great vegetable and they have a lot of vitamins that Amelia needs. Anyway, I pull out the carrots and give her her first bite...she spit it out immediately. I didn't think much of this since the first time I had given her rice cereal she had spit it out. I go to give her her next bite, and she was having none of it. She clamped her mouth shut. So of course I start to chuckle because I'm pretty stubborn with eating certain foods too. I put the spoon down and she opened up, I quickly put the spoon into her mouth. This was her response.

Yeah, I know funny huh? I was trying not to laugh really hard. I get her calmed down, and then start to feed her again...the same response. WOW! I never thought carrots would be so hated! I, of course, am talking to her about how great carrots are and she just has this pleading look on her face...begging me to never feed her carrots again.

Isn't that the saddest face? I put the carrots away for the night. Well today, I decided we would give it one more go just to be sure. She ate the carrots!!!! In fact she ate almost the entire container!!! She likes them, she really likes them! I just hope she is more open to new foods next week when I introduce sweet potatoes!

Liz, you are correct...it is a ball feeding her for the first time...I wonder if I pulled the same faces when I was a baby!