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Help with 7 month old eating. Is she fussy, or too young to worry?

My 7 month old was weaned at about 23 weeks (due to weight loss on breastfeeding alone). I weaned her on the usual baby rice, pear, apple etc. followed by sweet potato, swede, squash, other veg, banana, avocado etc. etc. She was doing fine and I had progressed to home made chicken casseroles, lentil hot pots and she would have them ok. However, she seems to be getting more fussy over what she will have. Firstly, she completely refuses anything that is bought in, i.e. not home made. I don't mind this so much, but she only wants sweet stuff or cheesy/creamy stuff. She won't have lamb, fish, tomato based stuff. Basically if it's not sweetish, she doesn't want it. By this I mean sweet potato and other sweet veg, or anything in a cheesy/creamy sauce. Does this matter at this age - will she start to accept other things over time or do I need to do something now to correct this. Am worried I'll have a fussy eater on my hands. Advice on what other babies were eating at 7 months would be great. Thanks.

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1. Let her guide you, she knows what she wants. Also, I was told no tomatoes for the first year, so maybe don't worry about trying to feed her tomato based stuff if she doesn't want it.
2. My son was the same with the sweet tooth. I also make all his food, and I just made regular non-sweet stuff, and added apple or sweet potato as they go with pretty much everything. I made all the 'sweet' stuff in in cube trays and gradually added less cubes to each regular meal over a few weeks. Now he eats savoury and other plain foods no problem.
3. As long as it is healthy it doesnt matter if she favours some foods. As long as she is eating. Its important to keep offering other foods so that when she is over this phase there is other food to eat. A lot of kids go through this, teething can also change their eating habits. If you are concerned about her not getting the right vitamins you can always get a multivitamin liquid to give her, but I think she will be just fine. 2 of my children went thru a stage of only wanting pasta, they got over it. By what you have said I think she is doing fine.
4. ive heard people say you should start veggies that arent to sweet, cause if you start sweet they that its harder for them to accept like savoury
5. Try taking away the sweet foods for a while. Only offer things with a savoury taste and when she gets well established on these reintroduce the sweet foods. Don't worry about her not eating enough, if she is hungry she WILL eat, even if she is not happy about it. Of course it is fine to keep giving her sweeter foods if they are healthy, but be prepared to have a very fussy toddler who will refuse what you offer for meals and want sweeter foods. It is easier to switch to savoury now than it will be to try and do it when your daughter is a little older. My daughter is seven months old, she has three solid meals a day with one of them being sweet. When she started eating solids I did not offer any sweet foods for the first month and even now she has more savoury than sweet. She doesn't really show a preference for either taste, she will eat anything!