Carrots are the enemy!

Aubrey had her 6 month apt on Monday and everything looks great! She is 16 lbs and 26 inches long. The doctor said I could start her on stage one solid foods. She already gets rice cereal before bed so on Tuesday I planned to feed her some carrots in the afternoon. I am suppose to introduce one food at a time for five days to make sure she doesn't have a reaction. I was really excited about this and bought carrots as our first solid food. Well let me just say that Aubrey does not share in my excitement. I have never seen her shun food in this way. I mean she wants to put everything in her mouth but when those carrots touched her lips she locked her jaw and made the most horrible face, she acted like I was torturing her with this orange mush. I thought maybe it was just the first feeding and she would need to get used to the flavor since she is used to only breastmilk. So I tried again Wednesday, same reaction.

I broke the 5 day rule today and tried sweet potatoes because I heard EVERY baby loves them. Well this baby doesn't. I am going to keep trying and be patient. Maybe she is not ready for solid foods with all that flavor or maybe its the veggies. I want to hold off on the fruits and keep trying the veggies for now. Here are a few pics of our first feeding. Nate was at work so it was hard to take a photo of her true disgusted face but I think I captured it pretty well.

First spoonful, you can tell she wasn't sure what to think at first

Hold up......that is disgusting and I will not eat it.

Sick Mommy!
We ended with Aubs giving me the "evil eye"

I would like to add that even though she has carrots all around her mouth probably only a 1/2 tsp went in. When she locks her mouth ain't nothing getting in!