Well, something clicked. She likes food. It was almost overnight. I partially attribute it to switching cereal brands...from Heinz baby cereal (which we fed Paige) to Nestle baby cereals. She definitely liked the latter brand better. And shortly after liking cereal, she started to like any vegetable or fruit we'd give her. She eats rice and oat cereals, carrots, butternut squash, creamed corn, green beans, peas, sweet potato, applesauce, pear and banana. Those are the only things we've tried so far, I think. I have made a bit of food, and plan to make more--we needed her to eat something though before I made too much. Now that I know she is into eating in general, I borrowed some baby food books from the library and plan to spend a few hours on the weekend making and freezing some food.
We've also given her some baby mum mums. We can't allow her to hold the whole bisquit and gnaw away--she bites off huge chunks, which are a choking hazard. Instead we break it into tiny bits and scatter them on her tray. She picks them up and eats them (they basically disolve in her mouth). Good for manual dexterity and pincer grasp...but also good for diversion and distracting her while we are trying to finish up dinner.
