No success with finger foods

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Just that really. My 9 month old has porridge for breakfast, finger food for lunch (sandwich, cheese on toast, breadsticks with dips...bit of what we are having), and purée for dinner (casserole, bolognaise, stroganoff etc). She will eat loads of purée spooned in but really struggling for her to feed herself anything at lunch....resorting to feeding her then aswell. I am tempted to start giving her a purée meal at lunch as well, but them worry if she will ever learn. I'm very chilled about it all and know there is no rush, but just wondered if anyone else had this?

My DS never really has much of an appetite at lunch time. It could just be that she's not very hungry around this time.

At 9 months she's still young and its mostly about learning still. You could try finger foods and a yoghurt or custard pot (that you spoon-feed her) at lunch time. That way she still gets the practice of feeding herself but you have the peace of mind that she has actually eaten something. Or try the opposite and give puree/mashed spoon fed food and offer fruit for her to pick up herself.

Thanks for reply I do give a yoghurt, rice pudding, custard after lunch for that very reason, to make sure some food is actually going in. I think I just expected to be predominantly finger foods by now, and using more of the blw methods....I suppose dd is leading the way in letting me know she likes purée spoon fed to her