I had this conversation with other mums and thought it was fascinating how we all felt that there was something 'bad', or 'guilty', about feeding 8/9mo's jars - but not pouches.
We heavily weaned DD with jars because neither she nor us were too keen on BLW, but she took such little food that spending ages cooking her purees etc until she wanted lots of food seemed a waste or time and effort. I bought jars because they were cheaper than pouches, and we still use them sometimes when we are in a mad rush. Recently she has had that dreaded tummy bug that has done the rounds and the only solid food she is really interested in is jars again, which led to this conversation because I fed her a jar while we were out.
Now personally I don't mind too much - it's not exactly a Happy Meal for a 9mo, after all - but I do agree that there is something about the pouches that make them seem 'better' or 'healthier' and for some reason I felt I had to explain about the jars. The other mum who uses jars also felt the same, though neither of us could really explain it and new it was quite silly to feel a bit defensive about using them. Does anyone else feel like this? Is it the branding of pouches, maybe? Or the fact that they seem like something our parents generation might have weaned on?