Firstly, I am aware that this is very much a Q for my HV. Unfortunately our HV services are so stretched that visits are being dropped, and I am moving house to a different area in two weeks so will raise it with our new HV if I still have concerns then. I just wanted some thoughts in the meantime.
My DD is 6 months. I have a 2.5yo DS who was big and hit his milestones super early, so development was never a concern at all. My DD by comparison is much more average in size and development and I am having to adjust my expectations for her and not worry when she's not doing things as early as he did/developing as quickly as he did. So maybe that's where my concerns here are coming from but I wanted to compare where she is at with her feeding with others' experiences.
She is showing no interest in solids at all, which I'm not too concerned about in itself as she is literally only just 6 months. However in addition to this, her breastfeeding is good but she has a couple of habits I (maybe incorrectly?) associate with newborns or young babies, such as shaking her head with her mouth open against the breast before finally latching, and also a new habit where she will be determined to unlatch and suck her fingers instead, even if I know that she is hungry. It really is a fight sometimes to stop her doing it! Are these habits normal for a breastfed baby at 6 months? I expected her to be "better" at breastfeeding by this point! I would say that these habits have started recently, not that she never grew out of them.
I wondered if this sounds normal - the lack of interests in solids and the breastfeeding habits? I hope I'm just worrying unnecessarily!