7 month old won't eat!!

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Hey all!! i would like some opinions/advices. i got a 7 month old i've been trying to wean him since he's 6 months. I've tried blended food, he won't accept it. only fruits or yogurts.
i give him finger size food as well, i've tried mince, eggs, chicken, sweet potato, veggies, etc. he just doesn't like it, sometimes he will suck on the sweet potatoes or a toast, but rarely. but meat wise it's a nightmare i've tried so many different ways to cook it, he just throws everything on the floor :,(, i don't know if it could be affecting his weight gain or if will affect his growth and it's getting me paranoid. i breastfeed full time, give him anytime he wants it so i think he's not starving. i've tried as well, breastfeed and wait a couple of hours to give him the food to see if he gets interested/hungry, but nothing. this journey is being really hard. any tips?

Following as I am having the exact same problem at the moment 😩

He is 7 month relying on breastmilk. Do not stress just keep offering and sit him next to you when you eat so he sees and copies

Just keep doing what you're doing. He's not ready yet but he will be so keep offering him the opportunities and don't force it. I did BLW with my son when he was 6 months old and he wasn't bothered, barely ate a thing. We went on holiday for 3 weeks when he was 7.5 months old and after a few days it was just easier not to bother preparing food to throw in the bin so we stopped and just offered him bits of bread and fruit etc from what we were eating and started offering meals again when we got home. It was closer to 10 months before he was properly eating at least one meal a day (although it was only a very few foods he would eat).

He was fine and is now 17 and eating me out of house and home and eats everything.

They say food is fun until 1 and it's not a bad thing to live by.

This.
"Food is for fun until they are one". Good advice I have often seen on MN.

I mean this in a nice way - but it’s literally been a month! At this stage even if they lick something or try an new texture that is enough. Just because they’ve turned 6 months doesn’t mean that’s it; they’re ready for 3 meals a day.

It’s a huge developmental stage, they get all their nutrition from milk until they’re 1 and really this is just about learning and trying and exploring. Totally take the pressure off, allow them to try foods and explore. It’s cringe but the saying ‘food before one is just for fun’ is so true.

If he started taking a few steps tomorrow would you expect him to be able to walk to the park unaided in a few weeks? It takes time, patience, learning and practice and they all do it in their own time!

Try cutting down a bit on the milk I wouldn't worry too much though. Still very young.

I never gave any of mine meat until they were over 12 months. I am sure the general advice was that it was too difficult to digest. They had little tastes of mashed up veg or fruit. Banana featured heavily as it was easy to squish. They still need their milk.

My DD didn’t really get eating until she was 9mo. I’d just give up for a couple of weeks and then try again.

He's not interested/ready that's all. My dd1 wasn't interested in food until about 10 months she wouldn't eat anything. Try baby led weaning just place items on his tray and see when he's interested. Some babies also never eat puréed food and both of mine would never be fed off a spoon, both preferred holding food and going it themselves

This is all the advice you need. Especially don’t stress, they all get there in the end.

The first foods I guess need to be quite like milk. Like little licks of babyrice. To get them used to tastes. Rather than blast the taste buds with different things each day.

Try a teaspoon of the same brand of babyrice at the same time each day.

Gradually add a bit of fruit puree maybe.

They like to know what to expect from food!

Considering they've eaten the same thing morning noon and night all their lives.

Definitely try not to stress (easier said than done!) My DD barely ate anything until 10m and then really only from about 1yr onwards - it didn’t help that she was slow to get teeth, I think eating was just a big hassle for her. When she started going to nursery and all the other children were eating with her, then it became something she was interested in

DS was like this, he would suck on thing's, throw stuff about. Would try to eat more when we all had food together. You just ignore them and put food on their plate for them to try, it is messy but they get there eventually. You can also see that they are taking in some of it by what come out in the nappies.

Just try and relax and offer age approt food when your eating. Mine both liked pasta most when little.

Thank you so much all!! reading all your answers made me feel better!! it was just getting to me cause sometimes i see videos on the internet of baby's the same age eating everything they put they hands on, so i thought i could be doing something wrong!! and because the health visitors told me that he needs to eat meat cause my milk doesn't have iron that he needs. but i will wait one day eventually he will be eating. thank you again ❤️

He's 7 months old.

DS wouldn't try solids until he was 10/11 months old.

The stuff about weaning from 6 months just gives parents a massive stress that they are doing something wrong or there's something wrong with their child.

What they don't tell you is it's perfectly normal to start to ween a lot later than 6 months old. Which if you had known from the outset would have saved a huge among of stress.

You baby is fine. They are just being a normal baby and this is normal and they may just be that kid that does ween until much later than all the other parents rabbiting on about how much their kid is eating.

Relax. Your house will be less splattered with food for a few months.

It's ok. It will happen when your kid can be bothered!

DD was 9 months and we were on holiday in Cornwall when she decided eating sounds good and 1/4 of my Cannelloni was gone.

I never did "normal" weaning, we did BLW but basically just offered her food and went from there. She may have nibbled on a piece of bread or entertained some baby cereal in the morning but otherwise nothing for months.

DS started trying to eat by trying to steal my gyozas in Wagamamas!

I ended up a right state over it all though before that point. DS was a total refusnik.

What worked well in the end was having food on a shared plate which DH and I could take from. And he eventually started to copy because he thought he was missing out. It saved the stress and hassle of making food for him only for it to be wasted. He saw use enjoying our food and wanted in.

In the end we never did baby food because of it.

This isn't what is in all the baby books and advice.