[Verified Answer]: Samantha is an 8-month-old infant

Samantha is an 8-month-old infant. Her mother has been breast feeding her since birth. At 3 months, they started to add rice cereal and pureed fruits and vegetables to her diet, but Samantha did not seem to like this and kept pushing the food out of her mouth with her tongue. Determined to keep trying, her mother cut back on breast feeding around 4 months in hopes this would make Samantha want to eat more solid foods. Now, at 8 months, Samantha is brought to the doctor’s office because she has been very fussy lately.