....love, hate, anxiety.

Do infants who experience a lot of arguing end up being argumentative?

I wouldn't be surprised at all.

Brussel sprouts, cottage cheese mixed with salsa, raisins, and special k, tuna fish with pine nuts, and carrot juice. All 4 to this day eat them like crazy!

It's good you like healthy foods!

I think that I read the same thing in one of the many mama books that I consumed during the seventies, before the birth of my daughter. I mean the part about babies in utero developing a taste for whatever the mother eats.

I consciously layed off drinking coffee and eating anything high in sugar, even a few months before I got pregnant, just so I wouldn't pass on my caffeine habit and addiction to chocolate donuts to my baby. A grapefruit for breakfast every single day for nine months, cayenne popcorn only, as a snack, and I now have an almost forty-something child who loves things that make you pucker up, sour flavors, and a taste for hot spicy foods that go way beyond what I could ever tolerate (and she has always turned down sweets, wouldn't even eat her birthday cakes, as a child). Tea is her drink of choice (herbal teas is what she got in utero) and she has never in her life had a chocolate donut, ha!

I eat a varied diet. All kinds of veggies, flavours, heat, cultural foods, curries, cooked, raw, meat, vegetarian dishes etc. Oh, and lots of garlic (I have my Ukrainian grandfather to thank for the love of garlic). I ate the same way when I was pregnant. I also breastfed my babies in terms of years and they self-weaned. They were introduced to all kinds of food early on.

2 of my kids will try anything once. They eat everything I make, they love curries, they love spicy foods, they love vegetables. They love to experiment.

2 of my kids will only eat a handful of vegetables, usually only raw, and bland food. They hate curry or any kind of Indian, Thai or Chinese food (except for chicken balls). Heck, they even hate most of my homemade Ukrainian food which isn't spicy at all. One daughter in particular hates potatoes and rice, which cracks me up because when I was pregnant with her I figured out wheat gave me wicked heartburn, so I used potatoes and rice as my carbs instead. She actually liked potatoes until she was 2 and then abruptly refused to eat them and has ever since. LOL. I suppose you could look at it this way - it's a good thing I ate a varied diet and breastfed her as long as I did or she'd be even pickier! She does like hot wings....

I, myself, was formula fed. My mom ate pretty bland food while pregnant with me (typical SAD meat & potatoes diet). I was picky about some things - I hated anything too spicy and I didn't even try curry until I was an adult and my uncle (who was of east Indian decent) cooked me some. A lot of things I hated as a kid I love now (onions, peppers). Except cooked peas. My mom always said I'd like them when I grew up.

I do not. Unless in a pod and stir fried. Or raw.

None of us really care for fish either - we never had fish when I was growing up as my brother was severely (anaphylactic) allergic to it, so I never did develop a taste for it.

Which reminds me....another new item regarding kids and food came out today as well - introducing allergenic food later is actually contributing to the rise in allergies. So go ahead and give your toddler shrimp and peanut butter!