Try This

This is the worried look Anna gives me when I put something new in her mouth. In this case, it's a small piece of white bread.

The doctor told us to start giving her actual solids like Cheerios or bread. So I've been dutifully putting Cheerios on her high chair tray, but she mostly ignores them. I've given her long pieces of cheese and a couple green beans. She's picked those up and squeezed the life out of them before finally letting go of them. Nothing makes it to her mouth. I had to put that piece of bread in her mouth. Since then I've decided to let her decide what goes into her mouth. I think she's the only baby who doesn't automatically put everything in her mouth.

But the other day we gave her a french fry when we were at the Citris Grill. That went into her mouth almost immediately and she gave us this look that seemed to say, "What have you done to me and how do I make it stop?" A few minutes later I gave her a second french fry, after the first was squeezed to death, and she put it right back in her mouth with the very same look of confused anxiety.