Please reassure me with BLW

[HumptyDumpty1]

DD was successfully purée fed and loved it until week before last when she fell really ill. Since then she won't accept anything from a spoon. I've started offering finger foods and letting her have a go with the spoon instead, sometimes it gets in her mouth but the other times its on the floor or she uses the spoon as a beater for her highchair drum.....

I'm worried :( I know 'food is for fun up till 1' and BLW babies don't eat much at first but I'm worried that now she's 7 months its too late to start BLW, especially as the AK weaning book days 7-9 months is a big developmental change and I need to start dropping milk so she's more hungry for solids.

Am I worrying over noohing and should just continue with BLW? Or do I need to push purees a bit more?

Tia :)

Your daughter should still be getting the majority of her nutrition from milk - that's what the mantra 'just for fun until they're one' actually means. AK is talking out of her arse wrong about dropping milk feeds. Your daughter will begin to drop these naturally when she is ready, not when some calendar on the wall says she should.

Keep going with the BLW, we noticed a big difference in amounts around the 10 month point.

Thank you world! my instincts are telling me to chill out and she'll eat more when she's ready but my worrying nature says otherwise haha

& months isn't too late to start BLW, dd3 started then as she just wasn't interested in food before then.
You shouldn't drop feeds to make them hungry for solids, you should use food as a supplement to milk and baby will start wanting less milk when she realises food fills her up.

She will eat more when she is ready as she is following her own appetite not the one a book writer thinks she should follow. Chill out and enjoy watching her mush food up and throw it around

I think they don't usually get the spoon until older. I can't remember what the blw cookbook says but iirc it's more like 9mo. When they are young utensils are simply a distraction.

BTW my DD uses the spoon to catapult yoghurt and bang on the tray too.

If she was keen on puree before you could wait a week and offer again. Or go back to the start with root veg. She might still be slightly under the weather and will go back to herself sooner or later.

I give her a spoon for porridge in the morning. I fill it up and leave it in and she attempts to get it in her mouth, mostly on the carpet though, she has a fantastic knack for flinging things just off the mat!

Thank you for the reassurance!

I will continue to offer her finger foods and take one massive chill pill!