Feedback appreciated - disagreeing with husband over feeding our baby
Really not sure where to start. Weaning started off really well with veggie purrees and mashes.
As she has moved on from those my husband and I can’t seem to agree on the best way to feed our baby. She’s almost ten months old.
If it was up to him, she’d have chicken with steamed broccoli, courgette and maybe carrot or potato for every single meal. She seemed fine with this to start with, but then started resisting going in her high chair and crying through all her meals.
I also became concerned that she wasn’t getting enough variety in the foods that she’s trying. I started to try her with some fruit with her porridge at breakfast time. She LOVES the fruit of course, kiwis, banana, strawberries. But hubby became convinced that because she’s having the sweet fruit, she no longer likes the vegetables.
He wanted to do an experiment where we stop giving her fruit for 3 weeks as an experiment to see if she’d go back to the vegetables. I am someone who hates confrontation but when it comes to my baby obviously neither of us are willing to back down. I refuse to deprive her of fruit for 3 weeks when it is still healthy and she loves it!
I feel like this should be a fun and exciting time of trying new flavours but it has turned into a Cold War in our house. He goes quiet and moves to another room when I give her fruit. He won’t give her fruit himself.
I really hope I am not being unreasonable. The health of our baby girl is top priority for both of us and it breaks my heart that it’s hurting our relationship.
The pic is what I’ve just given her for lunch - roast salmon, cucumber and roasted veg. She barely touched the veg but loved the salmon and we shared a banana afterwards.
Am I being unreasonable here?
Also obviously I appreciate how hands on hubby is in this process, he has done loads of cooking for her and I love that he wants to be involved.
Really not sure where to start. Weaning started off really well with veggie purrees and mashes.
As she has moved on from those my husband and I can’t seem to agree on the best way to feed our baby. She’s almost ten months old.
If it was up to him, she’d have chicken with steamed broccoli, courgette and maybe carrot or potato for every single meal. She seemed fine with this to start with, but then started resisting going in her high chair and crying through all her meals.
I also became concerned that she wasn’t getting enough variety in the foods that she’s trying. I started to try her with some fruit with her porridge at breakfast time. She LOVES the fruit of course, kiwis, banana, strawberries. But hubby became convinced that because she’s having the sweet fruit, she no longer likes the vegetables.
He wanted to do an experiment where we stop giving her fruit for 3 weeks as an experiment to see if she’d go back to the vegetables. I am someone who hates confrontation but when it comes to my baby obviously neither of us are willing to back down. I refuse to deprive her of fruit for 3 weeks when it is still healthy and she loves it!
I feel like this should be a fun and exciting time of trying new flavours but it has turned into a Cold War in our house. He goes quiet and moves to another room when I give her fruit. He won’t give her fruit himself.
I really hope I am not being unreasonable. The health of our baby girl is top priority for both of us and it breaks my heart that it’s hurting our relationship.
The pic is what I’ve just given her for lunch - roast salmon, cucumber and roasted veg. She barely touched the veg but loved the salmon and we shared a banana afterwards.
Am I being unreasonable here?
Also obviously I appreciate how hands on hubby is in this process, he has done loads of cooking for her and I love that he wants to be involved.