Weaning to solids - she doesn't like it!

[BalancingStick]

DD is my second child. She is 7.5 months and I started weaning at 6 months. We haven't really progressed at all. I really wanted to do baby-led, finger foods etc. Mainly because with an older DC (just turned 2y) I don't have time to be creating purees etc. She puts everything in her mouth. Everything that is except food. I've tried steamed carrot, steamed sweet potato, plum, peach, pear, cucumber sticks etc (i.e. just giving her a bit of the veg/ fruit from our meals). She will play with them but very little gets anywhere near her mouth. If it does then she pulls a face of pure disgust.

So I've tried purees, porridge etc. She will play with the spoon but won't actually eat anything. If I mange to get any in it just gets spat back out (not forcefully - it sits in her mouth and then when she opens it again the food just kind of slides back out).

The only food that has been put repeatedly into her mouth with success is toast. She will suck on toast quite happily.

She loves her milk so is still getting everything she needs from milk (breast and formula - we mix feed). But I'm beginning to get a bit concerned about the lack of progress with solids. Should I just carry on, keep trying every day?

Any advice appreciated.

Just keep trying, and mix it up a bit. At her age she can have more than just veg. She might enjoy a bit of omelette or some stew, fish, mashed potato, something with a bit of texture and flavour. My DD wasn't much older when she chewed strips of steak until they were grey. She's a fussy bugger now but that's toddlers for you. And don't worry, she'll eat eventually, and it's all about exploration with food at this age.

My DD loves her toast, when she is teething she gets a bit fussy about food and toast is always accepted but not so much her purée or finger foods which she is usually keen on so I smear her toast soldiers/shapes with purée or mashed avocado then at least some more nutritious stuff is going in.

My eldest was like this. Don't panic, 'Food is for fun until they're 1' She's still getting her main nutrition from milk. Give her finger foods and leave her to it, it doesn't matter if she doesn't eat much.

Ok -thanks all. I feel a bit reassured. DS had firmly decided that he loved food after just a few days of weaning (and ate everything I put in front of him until he turned 1) so this has left me a bit confused. I'll just keep going - offering and letting her get on with it (as well as introducing new foods as well). I keep trying to remind myself that I know of no adults who live off milk alone!