Have been trying to get Joel (5.5 months) to take some solids for the last 2 weeks. Started with rice cereal (Heinz), tried carrots and yesterday, apples for the first time.

All met with face, don’t swallow the food, cries, turn head away..And all this with less than 2 teaspoons of food. He will happily take an empty spoon though.

How ah ? Should I just wait some more ? I think he is fine with the eating process, but he just doesn’t seem to like the food. Heck the cereal was bad, even I hated it, but I thought all babies liked apples ?
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Su-Yin
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Did you try mixing the cereal with your EBM? Try again, and if he still refuses, then maybe wait for another 3 days, then try again? Sometimes baby will take what they refused before after a few more days, dunno why.

And offer only very smooth texture cereal. I started it with brown rice cereal.
Some other suggestions:

1) Let him watch other people eat, especially other babies
2) Let him dip his hands in the food and suck on them
3) Have someone else feed him, so he won’t be thinking of nursing.