Leilani’s sense of taste is amazing.
We put a pinheadsized amount of toothpaste on her toothbrush now – she likes it! We know that there are strawberry flavored toothpastes available, but I suppose they’ll go the way of the babyfood too. She wants what we eat / use…
Garlic seems to be her favorite spice, but she likes all herbs we tried so far and ginger too. Things spiced with hot peppers, even in pretty small doses she does not like, so with Mexican food we are careful not to get salsa on her portion.
Her favorite breakfast food are pancakes, she likes pasta with pesto and vegetables very much, and salmon and butterfish. Slowly she starts to eat fruit again, small amounts, and doesn’t seem to favor sweet fruits a lot. Today she suprised me by eating quite a bit of pomelo (jabong) – a type of grapefruit, after she had breakfast, for desert.
By far the strangest thing she likes is codliver oil. It is a distilled oil, heavy-metal free, and supposedly peach flavored, but in no way can that mask the flavor that’s underneath… Andy completely refuses to ever take it [that’s not true, I’d just rather eat salmon—Andy], and I only did while Leilani was nursing excluslively, on days when I didn’t get to eat my flaxmeal (for the essential omega-3 fatty acids). Since she doesn’t eat a lot of flaxmeal these days either I tried the codliver oil…
Andy says: I think Leilani likes what is good for her. She doesn’t know that fish liver oil tastes bad yet, and her body craves the good fat.