Xander is trying a new food every
couple of days. He likes almost everything so far. When he first
tastes something, he makes an unpleasant face, but I've learned that
it's really a reaction to an unfamiliar taste. He will soon demand
more of the new food, sometimes to the point of belligerence. When
we feed him bananas, we scrape the bowl clean in an attempt to
appease him, but he still protests when they are gone, fussing and
banging his high chair tray with his sippy cup.
Tuesday's new food was avocados.
Xander made his face when I gave them to him, but then he made the
same “mmm,mmmm” sound he makes for bananas. He even smiled a
little. So I kept feeding him. I did notice that he wasn't really
opening his mouth, but I still put a few spoonfuls in when I got the
opportunity. Then, suddenly, he made an awful face, gagged, and
puked what looked like green milk onto his bib. He had only
swallowed a little of the avocados, and was holding the rest in his
mouth.
I cleaned him up and apologized for
pushing avocados on him, and he blithely went into his swing.
At dinner, I decided to feed him some
sweet potatoes, since he hadn't really ingested any of the avocados.
I strapped him into his high chair, put his bib on, and he started
crying. Then he started screaming. I have never seen him so upset
on an un-nap-related issue. I had to take him out of the high chair,
hold him in my lap, and coax him to try a bite of sweet potatoes,
which he likes. I felt so bad. I traumatized my child with
avocados! We will have work to convince him that supper time isn't
really so bad.
I guess this is the first in a long
line of parenting mistakes I will make. At least he won't remember
this one.
*Full disclosure: this is not my first
parenting mistake. Why, last Friday, we took him to a bar. We
thought it was a Mexican restaurant! He slept through the entire
experience.
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