6month old just screams at food, finger food or purée help!

[Kellsthewells]

I'm weaning My 6month old daughter. I'm doing a kind of combination of purée (so I know how much she's getting) and blw to keep her occupied whilst i feed my other daughter (3 yrs).
It started off well but now she just screams as soon as I put her in the high chair at any time of day. I thought it was because she was tired but she does the same no matter what.
She's suddenly gone off all savoury purée and wil cry less with fruit, but mostly she just cries and screams at whatever I put in front of her. It's making meal times horrendous and my 3year old can't bare the noise (me neither!) any suggestions greatly received!
Many thanks

She's maybe just not ready for food yet, 6 months is spoken about as the 'magic' age when they are supposed to be ready for solids but babies develop at different stages in all other areas and it's the same for weaning.
Does she cry when you offer finger foods? Maybe just put some stuff in front of her when you and your 3 year old are eating leave her to it, it might take the pressure off both of you and you could try again in a week or so. If you all start getting stressed at meal times it will really put her off
As long as she is still getting plenty milk then she will be fine and will eat when she decides she is ready

I agree with whats, keep giving her the milk and leave the solids for a couple of weeks at least. It really doesn't sound worth all the fuss.

Once you've both had a decent break you can start again and if she wants something to occupy her, can you give her a bowl and spoon to play with?

Thank you so much for your advice. I think you might be right and I will back off a bit and not worry too much. It's mad how these tiny things can seem so big when you're in the middle of a mad dinner time . Thanks again [ thanks]

She may just have read this and be way more advanced than you realised .

I've had a similar problem with my 8mo old and I found myself getting stressed too. I've started trying to make the highchair more fun by providing a toy while she sits there and playing peekaboo by ducking under the chair and popping up (no food, just fun).

A friend suggested holding cookery lessons and so I did that today, I made her salmon fishcakes and we both had a wooden spoon. Mine was to stir, hers was to thwack. :) I offered small pieces of what I was cooking ( so a small piece of salmon with no bones and a piece of potato). It's seemed to make it all more fun and she tried the fishcakes.

Slow it all down then. No point worrying about how much she's getting if nothing goes in! Milk is still the main diet until 12 months - let her take it at her own pace

DD has taken until gone 7m to have any interest in food. I spoke to the HV a while ago because the only things she would eat were bread, Organix crisps and baby biscuits, and I wasn't sure whether to keep going with these slightly 'unhealthy' foods or persevere with the spoon, the screaming and the stress. She advised me to back off, offer finger foods or bits of fruit etc when possible and let DD get on with it herself if she wanted too, and then try again a week or two later. Its actually worked and she now likes her food.

I'd let her keep playing with finger foods, trying things off your plate if she is interested, and maybe put her in the high chair without food so she doesn't connect the two in her head so much. She will get there, they all do at some point, and as others have said as long as she is still drinking plenty of milk it is fine.

I hate myself for sugfesting this because the mess it could cause makes me shudder, but

Could you try not putting her in the high chair? Just set a plate of finger foods at her height somewhere and maybe even let your 3yo eat them too?

I agree that if shes not ready dont push it though!! I just know a few kids who absolutely hated the high chair!

My DD wouldn't eat a thing at 6 months, then suddenly got very keen at 7 1/2 months. She's 14 months today and eats brilliantly. It does get better :)