Baby refusing all pureed food....

[newmum36]

DS will be 6 months old exactly in 2 weeks. I started weaning 2 weeks ago. We also all had colds begin of last week so it's been a week properly really. He's 16lbs ish (not weighed for a while) - and he started to drain all his 8oz bottles so I thought I'd start some tastes.
I feel very confused. Have pureed up lots of lovely organic cubes - carrots, sweet potato, courgettes, pear and apple. Have tried the veggie cubes - he might take a bit but then clamps his mouth shut and turns away. I usually try baby rice with pear/apple for tea. He seems to hate that too. He loves his milk.
Do you just keep persevering? I know it's early days but I worry that he'll get bad associations with this weaning lark and start to refuse to eat every time he sees that little spoon and pot if I keep trying. I 've tried giving him a spoon to play with and he pops it in his mouth continuously.
It all feels like starting again...just got him sleeping and eating really well so this has really thrown me.
He already has 2 teeth so maybe the next 2 are on their way,
Help!

have you tried lumpier food? thats how ds let me know that he was ready to move away from puree's

you don't have to give purees at all you know. have a look at babyledweaning.com for some ideas.

he may just not be ready yet. follow his lead.

Give him finger food. Don't make him eat. He's still v little yet - you're right not to be making a big thing of it.

Agree with DB, have a look at baby led weaning - it may be that he's just not happy to be fed - my DS2 very like that (which is fab because it means I can eat at the same time as him without having to spoon stuff into him ).

should I look through the BLW threads ??. I don't really understand all this stuff to be honest but it all feels like a bit of deja vu with the old breast vs bottle and routine vs demand, cot vs co-sleeping blah blah.....I think I'm getting in a bit of a pickle with it.

It's not about one way or the other being better for every child though - no competition (IMO) - DS1 was spoonfed more than DS2 - we fed him as the situations arose. Actually, he wasn't often "spoon" fed - we were more likely to hold up a sandwich or a banana and he'd scoff it - even from very little (about 8m).

DS2 won't be spoonfed or have things held up for him, with the exception of porridge in the morning and plain yoghurt at any time. He HAS to do it himself. So I let him, because I don't believe in battling with children over food. I am a big believer in "they'll eat when they're hungry" and "he's big enough to feed himself".

Read the babyledweaning.com blog - it's full of useful tips. It's not a contest, it's about feeding your baby in a relaxed and stressfree way (can get a bit messy, but no messier than a spoonful of puree batted about the place!).

it is SO not a contest... couldn't be less of one i think. babies have been spoonfed for yonks and it's not done them any palpable harm, has it?

there are questions about over-feeding (as there are with bottle-feeding) but imho that is very dependent on the baby. you couldn't get my daughter to drink a millilitre more than she wanted, so i suspect she'd be the same if i was spoon feeding her. but i have deffo seen people get frustrated and try to jam food into their babies' mouths and seen it work, so who knows?

anyway, it's me who writes the blog. i started doing BLW cos i'd had a miserable time with BFing and wanted to focus on something other than that particular failure... i like it, i get to eat my dinner hot and it's rather a laugh cos it's hard to be aware of how much they're eating if it's finger foods so you can't get too stressed about it.
the thinking is that until they're one it's just for fun, so they take as much milk as they want and you don't stress the food. we were pretty lucky with DD, she took to it with no problems.
anyway, must go and do some more christmas preps... good luck.