Does anyone make their own baby food?

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My daughter used to eat her gerber baby food so well, both fruits and veggies. But recently she will only eat 3-4 bites and start crying and pushing her spoon away. She had her 6 month check up a few days ago and she looked great, gaining the right weight, etc. my pediatrician suggested trying to mix cereal with it (didn't work) or making our own baby food.
My question is, has anyone experienced this and had better luck with homemade baby food? If anyone has other suggestions on how to get her to eat her baby food I would really appreciate it! She literally won't eat ANY kind.

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I made all my own baby food... so much better for them and cost effective! Have you tasted baby food? It’s disgusting, so I don’t blame him lol. It’s really easy.. you pretty much steam everything then purée in a blender to the smooth consistency you want. Then put in freeze cube tray. Every Sunday I would make a batch of various fruits and veggies and freeze so throughout the week I just dethawed and served. Sweet potatoes, pears, peaches, butternut squash were her favorites when she was first starting out.

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I went through the same with my son. He hated gerber but liked beech nut, however it was pretty expensive so I bought a baby bullet and started making my own. It helped tremendously.

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Just mashing up fruits and or veggie combinations or giving her soft fruit to hold and knaw on 😊 like banana or mango. There's lots of videos on YouTube for how to do it. Mashing avocado was my nephews favorite.

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I made all my own baby food and my son always perferred that over the store bought kind. I got recipies off of Pinterest and books from the library.

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Ohh how cute. Ive made my daughter homemade stuff with the baby bullet, comes with a recipe book. Try it out. Baby reject food due to textures or whatever, takes a few attempts to get them to a-custom themselves to new food. I give my daughter teething bisects and rusks to let her practice eating by herself as a snack and she prefers more vegetarian. She hates meat and the texture. She’s ok with soft cheese like laughing cow and she enjoys peanut butter. I sometimes toast some rye bread to let her chew a bit. Try singing, making funny sounds, pretend to eat the food and over exaggerate how delicious it is. If she won’t open her mouth don’t force it take a break or try again later. All a learning process

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You can purée the food and instead of water add breastmilk (if you breast feed) it can help since they are familiar with the taste of milk

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a picture of what I was trying to explain in my other comment....

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How old is She? a family vlogger I watch on YouTube went through the same thing with her son... And she transitioned to Baby Led weaning... And he started eating amazingly!

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I make my own food. So easy to do at home just steam and make a batch and freeze it. It cost less to and at least I know what I'm putting in the food. Most baby foods on the shelf have sugar and salt and half the time it has more purée fruits then anything to make it taste sweeter.

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If she has teeth it's probably her gums. My baby didn't like the consistency of the food so I started doing oatmeals with bannana and fruit that easy to chew.:.

Does anyone make their own baby food?

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