Introducing solid foods into your baby’s diet is a big step, but important: the foods he learns to like now are the foods that he’ll prefer later in life. He’s developing his eating habits, and it’s important that they’re healthy. Don’t be discouraged if he doesn’t like a particular food; as long as he’s not having any digestive or allergy-type reactions to it, keep offering it to him. Offer the “offensive” food as the first bite of solids each day for ten days, says Dr. Alan Greene, Stanford University Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Some babies even take up to fifteen days. But persist, and eventually he will learn to accept – and even like – the food he once spit out with such force.

There is a wide world of tastes out there, and you’ll take pleasure in watching your baby discover them all. Bon appétit!