CALLING ALL MUMS WHO ARE WEANING/DID WEAN USING CONVENIENCE BABY FOOD(YOU KNOW, JARS ETC)!

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How did you make the transition from 4 months onwards jars to 7 months onwards jars? My dd is 7.5 months old, and I really want to start her on lumpier food, but she just retches if I try to give her anything thats not pureed. Although she does 'nibble' on baby biscuits, and bits of cucumber without a problem. I didn't have any trouble with ds, as I had the time to make all of his meals myself. Any advice?

Sorry just bumping before I disappear!

leave it a bit longer. just carry on with finger foods for a while.

Don't worry about it would be my advice. My ds was fine with lumpy stuff when he was a baby IIRC(he's 7 now) but dd (10 months) absolutely refuses it unless she's allowed to hold it. So she has pureed jar stuff mainly (Baby Organix mostly) supplemented by stuff she can hold: bread, baby sweetcorn, banana, broccoli, grated cheese, soft pear etc. Dp, who is a sahd, has tried lumpier baby food and she won't touch it so we've given up for now. I guess she'll get used to it at some point!

My dds would never eat the lumpier jars. They still to this day dont eat particularly lumpy food. Thats not much help I know!!!
I gave them toast and those baby biscuits that look like bones and pasta and mash with things mashed right in. Stuff like that. Not much help but it will bump this back up!

When I used jars I did mash the big bits up iyswim so that they weren't quite so big. DS got used to them pretty easily though tbh. I also used the same food at 4 and 7 months so that they knew the flavour but just had to concentrate on the lumps. Tbh I still do the same now that DS is 17 months - he's been having spag bol and roast dinners (homemade) for ages it's just the consistency that has changed!!
Why don't you try some really tiny lumps that slip down easily like mashed banana or teeny weeny pasta in a simple veg puree at first so that she knows what to expect. The jars do have massive lumps which is usually pasta .
DD and DS loved bread sticks at this age and rice cakes - flavoured ones as the others tasted awful to them.
It does get easier as they get older - DS now eats exactly the same as DD and so mummy's restaurant is slightly less busy around teatime!! Good luck