Leilani has been eating solids – much to the dismay of her naturopathic pediatrician – for almost 4 weeks. We started giving them to her because she sits with us at the dinner table, sees us eat, reaches for our food, and seems to really, really want to eat like the big people. I can’t deny our cats food, even if they have just been fed, much less the baby.
Her preferred food is banana, she wants it in anything. Least preferred are papaya and flax seed, and rice cereal and spinach range in the middle. She really wants mangos and tomatoes because they are so colorful and shiny, but can’t have for a while because they are possible allergens. We let her taste both, thinking she would not like the strong flavors, but it did not discourage her at all. Avocado was the first food we gave her, and she stopped eating it after a few days, and we will re-introduce it soon.
