Finger food / Solids with texture?

[LadyPenelope3]

Is it normal to have made very minimal progress on finger food after six weeks of weaning?

Daughter is seven and a half months and is given something to feed herself with at every meal time. However, she will only play with it or push it off her tray. She also doesn’t really like being fed anything with texture!

Does there just come a point when it clicks for them?!

Forgot to add when she puts the finger food in her mouth she either takes off the most minuscule fraction, or a bigger chunk which she then gets upset about and cries until I fish it out of her mouth! I offer a good variety - omelette strips, fruit, veg, chicken, turkey, oat cakes with homous etc

She’s very young. Keep offering. Keep trying. I did BLW and DS ate barely anything until he was 9m. And he wasn’t small (99.6th centile)

She’s very young. Keep offering. Keep trying. I did BLW and DS ate barely anything until he was 9m. And he wasn’t small (99.6th centile)

Thanks ODog. Health visitor was surprised when I told her about her progress (or lack thereof) so it’s good to have some reassurance

Mine is still like this with finger foods! He’s ok if you post the food in or out it on a soup though. So he manages a banana and a yoghurt for breakfast, 100ml soup with bread for lunch and a small baked potato with half a run of beans and cheese for tea (skin on but mixed up a bit).

But if you put the exact same food on his tray he spends hours dropping it over the side and scrunching it up in his hands instead of putting it into his mouth. If you load the spoon up he can put it in his mouth by himself, but he won’t eat anything else by himself (we have tried and continue to try, but spooning it in is definitely more efficient).

He didn’t eat much between 5-9months though - lots of variety, but only about 50mls at each meal. He seems to have developed a proper appetite over the last month really.

“Put it on a spoon”, that should have said.

DD was just the same and I posted the same question at about the same age.

It took a while to 'take' we just kept offering her things (a mix of finger foods and purees) and when she was about 8 mo she suddenly started eating, now at 15 months she eats really well.

Thanks so much everyone