Hi, please could I have some thoughts on this. I've got a touch of depression and as such lost a bit of confidence in my own decision making. I'm not after anyone telling me what to actually do, just after some thoughts.
I've got twins who are just shy of 7 months (and a daughter just shy of 23 months) the twins were born at 35 weeks.
I started off with BLW with my daughter, she was more than ready at 6 months and took to it really well. I loved the fact that at 8 months I could go anywhere and just give her a bit of food and she'd happily munch away on it. However at about 9 1/2 months she was only picking and ended up losing weight and so we ended up spoon feeding some of the things like yoghurt and porridge and she happily let us (no force feeding, stopped when she had had enough) but we left her with other foods and she was happy.
Fast forward to my boys. I've a few friends who had slightly early babies, one of them had twins, they did BLW and it didn't start until 7+ months as their babies weren't ready. So before the boys were 6 months I said I'd leave it until they were ready. But then they got to 6 months and I became unsure of myself. I tried them a few times and although they wouldn't pick food up if given it into their hands they'd put it into their mouths. So I left it a few days and tried again - same thing.
I saw the HV last week who basically said give them purees, breakfast and lunch and offer finger foods along side the purees. She said it's about getting food in to them now. So I started doing this. It's been mixed success, they're starting to play more with the food on the tray, they grab the spoon, they'll take some of the food off the spoon if put into their mouths, sometimes they'll spit it out, sometimes they'll work it round their mouths and swallow it.
Part of me feels like just leaving the whole thing for a week, and then just bunging them in their high chairs and sticking a load of food on their trays and leaving them to it. Repeating the mantra "food is for fun until they're one" and going proper BLW style. I've seen a couple of friends with babies of the same age and pictures and a video of them exploring food and I feel oddly envious.
It's certainly a lot of effort spoon feeding two babies and keeping an eye on my dd at the same time. And I've no idea if I do the whole purée thing how I progress onto 'normal foods'
My boys are a good weight, no issues with weight gains, sleep reasonably well (loads better than dd did at this age) so it's not like they're really hungry or not getting enough from their milk alone.
But that's when I become 'unsure' because they're nearly 7 months and not eating anything.