God its long - sorry bear with me...
My DS2 is nearly 8 months old and we started weaning just before 6 months and he seemed to love it. He lapped up the veg and fruit purees and was really keen. Then we went on holiday and whilst i had intended to continue with the purees, I took jars and packets with us as it was just not feasible to do homemade veg purees as i had been doing. We also started just giving him some of what we were having as finger food which he also seemed very keen on.
My problem is that since then (around the last month) he basically is totally off spoon feeding for anything other than breakfast and yoghurt/fruit puree. He will happily pick up anything and shove it in to see what it tastes like and somethings go down better than others (toad in the hole = yes, broccoli = no etc). He is definitely teething as his first tooth appeared this week and there could well be more on the way which would make sense with him not being keen on the spoon anymore.
Should i just continue offering him finger foods and try the spoon every mealtime to see if he wants any of it or just give up the spoon completely and go blw (which i could but oh dear god the mess and waste!)
I worry that the finger food that I offer is too salty for him as i tend to give him whatever DS1 (3) is having which is basically a good diet but does include sausages, fish fingers and other preprepared food (not every day i hasten to add).
I've got some massive baggage with this as DS1 was very small when he was born and spent 4 months in the NICU and we struggled with his weight when he was home and he spent far too long on the 0.4th percentile. He is now between the 2nd and 9th so not massive. Then DS2 got meningitis when he was 8 days old and also spent some time in the ICU and his weight also dipped to the 0.4th percentile although he is now back up to the 25th percentile. I'm stressing that I'm not doing the right thing to keep his weight where it should be.
Help!