close... but no tomato

After refusing virtually everything except a little milk and one roast potato yesterday, today was better. Naomi ate a good sized bowl of porridge & pureed fruit for breakfast without too much difficulty. Its good to see her tucking into something, anything, after eating so little the last few days.

For lunch I did a slice of bread with laughing cow cheese into soliders and it disappeared with touching the sides. Much grunting, smiling & rocking backwards and forwards. She'd had a nap of over 2 hours and seemed really hungry. But she still won't eat tomato. She can easily and adequately pick it up but it doesn't translate. Maybe its the lack of teeth although, if I understand BLW correctly, that shouldn't matter. I've tried several types cut in different ways. Perhaps she doesn't like them? We rounded off with half a banana cut into long strips. I can guarantee that this will not be refused unless she is feeling really under the weather.

I struggle with how little fruit and vegetable I can get into Naomi doing BLW. My ds didn't want to know about finger food so at the same age he would happily tuck into anything and everything. One of his favourites was steamed & lightly mashed veg with rice & cheese, a kind of mini risotto. But that's no good this way as it needs to be fed in off a spoon. I can't even do similar with pasta because again, although Naomi can pick it up fine, she can't deal with it in her mouth. So we are left with potatoes or bread for her carbohydrate and this means its very easy to fall into the trap of too much wheat.

I know babies still get a lot of nutrition from milk in their first year but Naomi is now of an age where the balance should begin to tip in favour of solids. Helllllllllppppppppppppp!