The development of taste

The taste of your baby begins to develop very early, even though it is still in your belly! Once born, his awakening continues through breast milk and tasting the foods you offer, a phase that can be tricky if your child has decided to confine itself to the tastes he knows ...

The first flavors

Baby begins to experiment with their taste buds ... with amniotic fluid! Indeed, the taste of it changes depending on the diet of the mother, leaving Baby all the leisure to discover a multitude of flavors. Then, once born, your little one continues his discoveries through your milk taste that is perfumed also for the food that you swallow.

Your baby relax and enjoy their favorite dishes to excite his taste! But your baby is still very own preferences, which are dictated by the needs of nature: he loves the sweet and especially he has great need for energy, and rejects the bitter taste, which allows reflex avoid ingestion of harmful ingredients.

How to develop the taste of her child?

When Baby goes to small pots or solid, it's time for you to initiate the tastes offered by different foods. Firstly, prefer small pots that offer one flavor (peas, carrots ... etc.) so as not to lose in its discovery and to identify precisely what he likes and what he does not.

Do the same when passing to the solid, avoiding to give him such a piece of meat with sauce on it. Then did not do it to taste different foods taste the same time: if you give him a piece of meat or cheese, serve with a little then the zucchini or cabbage rather than rice.

The awakening of the taste of your baby should be done gradually, by not proposing that new foods at the same meal, but by making them appear gradually, so as not to interfere. Once the new flavors are well assimilated by your baby, go to mixtures that will now enjoy much better. Gradually, the range of tastes that knows your child growing: the awakening is successful!

What to do in case of rejection?

The taste is not the only one awake in your baby: autonomy and the desire for independence too! Perhaps your child rejects many of the foods you offer, first by apprehension about what he does not know - that many children share - but also determination to win and to understand that he too can make choices.

If your child rejects the food you present, do not force it as it could shine even more. Try again, choosing a time when baby is a very good mood, because it is also important to accept new foods. It may also be that the presentation of the food that does not please him, in which case you can represent it as a mash to get it to taste.