7 months, EBF, weaning not going great

[Zimm]

Have been trying to wean DD for a month now. She just doesn't seem to like much food. She will eat fruity porridge from shop and some of the plum sachets, but very little of the food I make. She's ok with finger foods and wil have a good go, but generally she eats very little solids.

Any advice? I don't want her weight gain to drop off but neither do I want her to eat nothing but shop porridge and packets. I wanted to do BLw but loss my nerve....please reassure me she will not starve and give me some ideas to get her eating a bit more??

Do you eat with her?

Until a year most nutrition comes from milk, so as long as she's still having plenty of breastfeeds/bottles she won't starve.

Not generally no - do you think this would help? Yes she has plenty of breast milk.

I know my ds eats loads better when he's sat at the table with us - he goes to bed a bit later now so he can eat dinner with us too. We either give him stuff off our plates as finger food (pieces of potato, veg, toast, pasta etc) or I mash up some of what we're having and spoonfeed for things like cottage pie or stew. Even if he doesn't like what we're eating, he still sits at the table with us and I give him some toast and a banana.

When we first started weaning I sat him in a Bumbo and fed him, but since getting a proper highchair and eating with him he's much more interested and adventurous.

I had this problem with DD who was EBF. She liked the purees for a week but then flatly refused for the next two months. I tried BLW but she kept missing her mouth and it all became too traumatic.

I thought the problem was that it was summer and she was always thirsty and BF-ing and therefore never hungry but I think she just didn't like the texture of purees. She liked bread so eventually when I clocked on I would alternate between a mouth full of bread and a mouth full of mashed (rather than pureed) food and that's how she started eating. It still took another month or so before she would eat properly. I stressed about it so much at the time, but looking back it's not worth stressing about as she didn't starve. In fact she was more tubby when she was EBF than she is now and she eats loads now.

I would persevere with the BLW as all the babies I know who started this way ate really well from early on.

It might just be that our babies are/weren't ready when the book says they should be ready for solids even if they're showing all the signs. She eats anything now so don't be put off by the slow start.

HTH.
xxx