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Resisting solids
Tips for introducing solids to reluctant babies
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You wouldn’t think that something as seemingly routine as starting your baby on solid food would end up being so controversial. The World Health Organization says: “Exclusive breastfeeding for six months, and then gradually introduce solids.” The Canadian Paediatric Society recommends solids be introduced between four and six months. Your mother claims you were eating cereal at six weeks.
Even if you sort out that food fight, what if your baby decides on a different timetable? Some little ones salivate at the sight of cereal, but some hate solid foods.
Anton Perera was one of those. At six months, Anton clamped his little mouth shut, says his mother, Angela. She wasn’t too concerned, figuring she’d wait until he was ready.
She waited. And waited. “Around eight months, he started reaching for my food, so I thought he must finally be ready,” she recalls. “But almost always he would just take one bite and then he wouldn’t have any more.”
Hana Knight was even worse — she wouldn’t eat a single bite of solid food until long past the middle of her first year. “She was excited to play in the food, but when we tried to feed it to er she’d gag,” says her mother, Katherine.
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