Food Therapy

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine MY child would not like food. You see I wouldn't necessarily categorize food as a necessity in life, but more like a hobby. I love food and eating!! I strategically plan out my next meal hours in advance and I certainly never miss a meal. My daughter on the other hand loathes baby food. At first it was mildly funny, but now it's frustrating. She just started 2nd foods this week at 7 months old because it takes us so long to get through a jar of food. In fact, we can eat out of the same jar of food 3 nights in a row and still have food left in there when we have to throw it away. Never mind breakfast or lunch. We can only get her to take about 5 bites at dinner(if that). And that's with making sour faces, "bahhhhh" noises and gagging herself to the point that I sometimes have to pick her up and pat her back.

Today being Friday, we met up with our mommy lunch group for food and fun. I brought up Kendall's disdain for food in hopes of some suggestions. Everyone kind of seemed to think I should pour some food on her highchair tray and let her play with it and eat it on her own free will. So tonight I did just that. We happened to have some opened prunes in the fridge, so prunes it was. I sat back and let her "feed" herself. In one fell swoop the first prunes landed on her forehead.As you can imagine, things got progressively messier!

Funny thing being that she is at the stage where she puts everything in her mouth, but I'm pretty sure she wasn't putting any food in her mouth. She did suck some prunes off my finger, but that was it.With this being the end result and not necessarily a successful one! My suggestion box is still open =) Time for a bath!