DS2 is now 6.5 months. I started offering tastes of solids a few weeks before 6m, expecting him to be interested. He's generally seen food as a sort of game, but nothing he'd actually swallow. I've given baby mush, table scraps, bread sticks, rice cakes, and all of it got pretty much the same reaction. For almost a month now. He's a big boy. He's exclusively breastfed, which I'm happy with, but I'd like to stop being so bloody hungry all the time myself. I'd like to stop feeding him in the night, and I suspect getting some protein down him would help with that.
But today, finally, he had most of a cube of lamb and carrot puree (with onions in)! Ok, I'd rather he moved to table scraps as soon as possible, but he ate something! Competantly, and with great enthusiasm! And it was home-made, and not sweet! (I have tried dried apricot puree, and also mashed banana.)