Help my DD won't eat meat!!!

[blessedatlast]

At least she eats veges.. All DSS will eat is chicken or sausages.. We bribed him to eat pumpkin last night.. He would actually like it if he let himself but makes these exaggerated vomiting sounds as soon as we offer veges he wont even try them.. He used to eat them but hasn't for the past year..We used to marinate steak and put them on skewers and call it special chicken too.. I am definitely no help sorry..

[ACJ]

Ohhhh DS is the same at the moment....He ate some beef out of our curry on Saturday night but it was slow cooked and feel apart in his mouth so I was pleased with that. I think the skewer idea might work with DS just for the fasination side of it!! Whether he just pulls it off or actually eats it I dont know!! Lol.

[Nai]

DD1 doesn't eat a lot of meat either but that doesn't bother me as I am vegetarian. She eats chickpeas and lentils etc so maybe give those a try. Sometimes she will sit and eat a bowl of chickpeas as a snack.

[berrme]

DS1 really only likes slow cooked meats too. He will happily sit and gnaw all the meat off a lamb shank, but won't eat steak, sausages or chicken. Oh he likes ham too.

I think they all go through stages where they decide they don't like things that they ate happily just a week before. Maybe just try to give her other things with iron in them aswell as meat so hopefully she will get enough. I wouldn't stop offering the meat, if she doesn't see it then she may not want it again.

[Inertia]

I am pretty sure its a phase, and it will pass. All mine started fine with meat (Haz still prefers gnawing on a snag) and then 'went off' it.

Many veges are good for iron so don't stress about that too much - its the b12 you need to keep up in the interim. Look for b12 fortified foods that the will eat until it passes. Can't rightly say how long that will be - all my kids were off it for different lengths of time. Angie was the longest where it was a couple of years until she just ate meat because she wanted to - not because we told her she had to eat x amount of each item on her plate for dessert.

[Pinny-mum]

Thanks everyone for the replies, unfortunately she does not like slow cooked meat either. Will just make sure I keep placing a small amount on her plate so at least she is offered it.

I don't ever make a big deal about food and amounts she has to eat just go with the flow, my SIL force feeds her kids until they gag and I can't stand it so I've always made a point of being fairly easy going around meal times.

Thanks inertia forf info around b12, will keep an eye out

Nai i might offer things like lentils and chickpeas, I actually think she would like them.

[Phteven]

If it's not meat it's veges.
Just try to make sure that you're providing protein and iron from other sources (dairy, eggs, legumes etc) and you needn't worry too much. There are lots of perfectly healthy babies who eat a vegetarian diet.