Pastina?

Why not try mixing with marjarine or something like that? I don’t know how good it would taste with fruit. Sweet potato would probably taste okay. Neither Sarah nor Hailey ever liked it much but I’ve heard of other babies who loved it.

can she eat oatmeal?

I used to make quaker old fashioned oats (I wrote how I made it somewhere here= very speific directions for the microwave, lol!) very very thick so jonah could eat it with his fingers- I put in fruit purees he liked

how about ‘adult’ rice and also barley?

how old is she again? at 9months I introduced beans– jonah LOVeS beans…

hellbennt2006-6-14 12:3:7

I would think quaker oats are ok? maybe buy organic whole oats if you’re concerned?

as for beans you can warm them a bit or straight from the can- we use organic- you can try kidney, black, chickpea (might want to take the skin off of chickpea)- really any kind…some babies even like lima beans (buy those frozen)

how about frozen fruit? too slimey? like frozen peach slices or something from the health food market?

hmm…

frozen fruit helps with teething & also it might be something fun to hold/lick and then it’ll melt and maybe she’ll get used to slimy? hmmm…

You can make a really nutritious sauce for her pastina by pureeing veggies (I use carrots/peas/spinach) and adding the puree to a small amt of jarred or canned tomato sauce. I use this for homemade pizza and any kind of pasta. Has she had tomato or tomato sauce yet? If not it’s something to maybe try later on.

Also, I recently remembered this trick I used with Liza when she was a baby and hated to pick up slimy foods. I started taking a bunch of children’s sized forks, stabbing some bite sized chunks, and lining them up on her tray. It looked silly, six little forks with food attached sitting on her tray, but she did start to pick them up and eat. She was definitely older than Marisa, but maybe it would work with Marisa now or sometime down the road. What gave me the idea was seeing little oerderves (sp?) with little toothpicks. Toothpicks would be dangerous, so I thought I’d try the little forks. I must have 12 or more child size forks in this house!

I guess you could use little pretzel sticks, but she may not have enough teeth for that yet, and when Liza was learning to self-feed I didn’t want to give her more simple carbs with her meals. I was aftaid she’d like the salty pretzel so much she wouldn’t want anything else.

ndrose2006-6-14 15:33:44

Ellie still won’t eat blueberries but Liza just loves them. She loves all berries…if only my other two would eat as well as she does.

Does Marisa have a good pincer grasp? Myles doesn’t yet, so I haven’t been able to offer much as far as finger food with him. He’s had puffed foods, but that’s it so far. He still tends to grab them with his fist and then tries to smash them into his mouth. A few get in, the rest end up everywhere but his mouth. Funny but very messy.

Sounds like a good plan. If she can eat cheese it will help alot. I make little grilled cheese sandwiches for the girls and put little pieces of tomato or other cooked veggies inside. I’d cut them into tiny pieces when they were babies and they both loved them. Yogurt is great, too because you can buy the ones with berries or puree your own and mix it in. And you can make all kinds of healthy smoothies.

That’s great that she has a good pincer grasp. I’m waiting for Myles so I can start offering him more finger foods.