7 Month Old Daughter WILL NOT Eat Veggies

Hi, my name is D. D and I also have a son (8 months old) and He won't eat baby food at all. So I just buy the canned veggies with no salt and cut them up and give them to him. He will eat anything as long as it is not baby food. I don't know what it is about it, but he doesn't like it. But he loves, creamed corn, peas, green beans, lima beans ect. They just have to be the real thing. Maybe you could try this. Good luck.

Ok, I have the same problem with my 3 yr old (i have 2 boys, 3 and 14 mos) and I give him the v-8 fusion juice- it has veggie and fruit juice but you can only taste the fruit and he loves it! I water it down for him, but check with your Dr. to see if juice is ok (i think so, but still check) Also, try giving it to her off of your plate. My 14 mo old has recently started rejecting baby food, but if I mash it up (like carrots and squash) and feed it to him off my plate he's all into it but i can put the same thing into a separate kids bowl and he won't eat it!! Kid's are funny, they want to be like mommy and daddy and eat what we eat! Let me know if it works! Good luck and keep on trying even tho it gets frustrating!

Gosh.....I don't know what to tell you sounds like you've tried everything I could think of. With both my boys, my friends told me to start with veggies first before introducing fruit. Even still, my 1st would NOT eat anything green. I think I did sneak a tiny amount in with his cereal.
All that said. Even though they ate baby food veggies like champs (mostly). They are really very picky now at 3 and 5.
Well at least my 5 year old is. Things he loved just a year ago he now "hates it"!
They're mysterious creatures!

Good luck. You are doing the best you can.

have you tried mixing the veggies with rice cereal? that worked on my son (he is 6½ months now) when i started him on baby foods. hope you get it worked out! ^_^

I was told it sometimes takes over a dozen times to get them to start eating something. Just keep offering. My daughter didn't like carrots or green beans (or mac-n-cheese or peanut butter/jelly sandwiches when she was old enough to eat them), but she's 3 now & we're only still working on the green beans. And sometimes it depends on how it's offered - cooked, fresh, with dip/sauce, corn - ON the cob, with other kids - try as many ways as you can think, but keep trying. It definitely took over a dozen times to get my daughter to start eating carrots. My daughter's friend didn't like green beans out of the can (only fresh). And my son will only eat anything if he can feed himself. MESSY, but he eats. And my daughter wouldn't drink milk until we offered her a straw. So bottom line, be creative & keep offering. No worries!

My daughter was the same way, and it has only been recently that she has started eating her veggies. I started to dip the spoonful of a little it of veggies into the fruit. More at first than tapered off. My daughter tasted the fruit first and I was able to give her the veggies. I still give her both now, but I alternate bites (first spoonful of veggies than fruit). I hope this helps and Good Luck!

My doctor has always told me, as long as I offer them, I'm doing my job. Keep trying occasionally, without pushing it. Children's tastes do change and mature as they get older. My children have never cared for veggies but over the years I keep offering and they slowly have learned to like certain ones. My children are 4 yr. and 6 yr. now and I have the one bite rule, they must take one bite, and then if they don't like it, I say "not yet", so they get the idea that it will come.
As babies I mixed their veggies with fruit and cereal doing my best to disguise the taste. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Just keep trying, but I wouldn't push it. The taste for veggies may not come until later. Good Luck!

Don't be alarmed...I have a nine-month old little girl and she's just the opposite....She won't eat fruit, no matter how I try to disguise it....She loves her veggies, and I mean all of them. For some reason she just doesn't like fruit...It's perfectly normal for babies to start showing likes/dislikes for certain things....My daughter is breastfed so I give her baby vitamins and baby food to supplement any nutrients she lacks....At her last check up, her iron was perfect and shes really healthy, so don't panic :)

Also, try fresh vegetables...Even though my daughter doesn't particularly care for fruit, when I give her fresh fruit she's more likely to eat it...Taste some of that baby food, I'm not surprised that some babies dislike it....

Hi K.,
Vegetables are the most important thing you can give to your daughter. If you give them too her consistently for about 17 days, she will eat them. She is so young, if you offer them everyday, she will eat them. When she is bigger, around the age of 2, you can set out a muffin tin with raw vegetables and some ranch and she will eat that throughout the day. Please be consistent. Not enough parents are that is why diabetes and high cholesterol is showing up in 2 year olds today. I am involved in a wholefood based nutrition company called Juice Plus-it is simply 17 fruits and vegetables in capsul form, we also have chewables and gummies for the little ones. I can send you a DVD with Dr. Sears who gives some great information about whole food nutrition. Good luck!

Ok K., this is going to sound cruel but stop giving her fruit and keep trying the vegies. Our pediatrician told us that kids will not eat something until they have tried it at least 7 times. My pediatrician told me to give my boys the vegies first when they are most hungry. They will spit it out, pull it out of their mouth and make faces at you but they will begin to get the idea. Since she is only 7 months you aren't to the extreme that I had to with my oldest (He was 1 1/2 by the time I got the idea that he shouldn't be eating only fruits). I had to give him nothing but the vegies and nothing else. The doc told me to not give him anything but the vegies and even though he would miss a few meals from refusing to eat he would eventually get hungry enough to eat! I tell you, I was almost in tears by the time he refused his 3rd meal. I continued to give him drink but was told no juice until he got the taste for vegies. I gave him water, cereal and milk that whole day and when he went to bed that night I felt like I was an awful mother. You know what he ate for breakfast? Vegies!!! He was so hungry in the morning he ate those vegies without another complaint. Now he is 10 years old and he loves artichokes, brocoli and coliflower!!!

Your little one isn't old enough to go to the extreme that I had to but I would say try to give her vegies first every meal. She will refuse them and keep trying. If she still won't eat them after a lot of attempts then give her something else but I would suggest no fruit until she gets a taste for the vegies. One of the other posters made a good point that usually you introduce vegies first because once they get the sweets they don't like anything else. Give her cereal, vegies and milk but leave out fruit for a day or two. It won't hurt her at all, even if you resort to the method I used. The doctor said that it is the fastest way to get the "deed" done and get them to learn that you are not going to give in. Even a 7 month old knows if she holds out long enough your heart will break and you will give in to her cries.

I do not know you and I hope that maybe we can get to know each other eventually. I am by no means an expert. I am a mother of four very energetic boys, I watch kids for a living and I am 3 classes off from an early childhood education degree, I am 28 years old and have been married for over 10 years now. I have so many ideas that you could try and I love to help out. If my idea doesn't work then there are so many other things that you can try. I don't even know if you want to try my idea but I know that it has the potential to work. Feel free to email me anytime.
Jennie

have you tried cooking fresh veggies for her? sometimes its just that the baby food veggies are so gross, not that she doesn't like veggies

My 8 month old twins couldn't get the hang of eating off a spoon. They just kept wanting to spit it out, so I went to Babies R Us and got a baby food nurser bottle (see one here http://www.babysupermall.com/main/products/sas/sas00627.html ) This has been one of the best things that I have EVER bought for my babies (and trust me, I've bought them a LOT of stuff! I'm a shop-a-holic and now that I have babies to shop for, watch out!) Now I just put half of a container of 1st foods in the smaller bottle (they get the other half at the next feeding) and they suck it down in literally 5 seconds. That's so much better than trying to spoon feed for half an hour and still ending up with more on their faces than in their bellies. My pediatrician said to be very careful with this though, because it is way too easy to over-feed the baby, since they eat (well, drink) it so fast. So start off with just half a container for the first two weeks or so, and then go to 3/4 of a container for a week, then a full container. By then, she should have a taste for the vegetables and it won't be such a struggle to get her to eat them off a spoon. When you are at a full container, try to offer her the spoon first, that way she doesn't get reliant on the bottle feeder, then put whatever she doesn't want to spoon into the bottle, and she can have that. This has been the BEST method that I have tried. I was making myself crazy worrying that I was pushing my babies into spoon feeding before they are ready, but now we are easing into it much better after trying this nurser bottle.

Not even the yellow and orange ones, huh? My daughters both liked the yellow/orange ones - not so much with the grean for #1, tho.

I guess I'd talk with her doc about the fact that she won't eat them - see if doc has any other suggestions. If not, ask doc how concerned you should be. My oldest had things she just would not eat, and the doc said that as it wasn't hindering her growth not to worry about it.

It's strange to see how they have already got tastes of their own, huh?

Most Moms don't know that you should start an infant with veggies rather than fruit but that is probably water over the dam. One thing is true about all babies: they eat what they want when they want. Sometimes all they will eat is mac & cheese. Another time, they may prefer chicken strips. We know these are not preferred foods but sooner or later they will learn to eat better. In the meantime encourage them with the proper foods but don't be despondent if they turn their noses up to everything but a french fried potato. Good luck!

Keep trying. I think that's the rule of thumb for everything with kids. And here's a forewarning - my daughter who is 3 1/3 will refuse to eat something she loved last week. The words "I don't like it" come out often!! Sometimes she'll only eat 2 bites for dinner, but the rule is that if she doesn't finish - no more snacks for the night. Good luck!!

My daughter wouldnt eat them either... at all. However, I mixed them with the rice cereal and she ate them all the time. She went from eating none of them to eating them all the time, and I'm not sure she knew the difference. You might try it... it worked for me! good luck. =0)

Hi, I have a 6 month old who refused to eat fruit for a couple weeks. What I found to work best was offering her a bite of the item she didn't like with each feeding and she eventually warmed up. It could be the texture she doesn't like or the baby food brand. My daughter spits up horribly on Gerber foods but does great on Beech Nut. Another thing that helped me a lot, was mixing the food 3 parts rice or oatmeal to 1 part what she didn't like. Lastly, I am making my own babyfood now and freezing it. Not only is making it rewarding, but she wants more and more and you can make the texture to her preference. Blending it more may help her eat it.