Don't like spoons or food

[tired37]

How can I get my 7 month dd to eat from a spoon. She will only eat pear at a push and for everything else I have to trick her using a doidy cup with water in it. I don't think she dislikes the taste of food that much once I can get it in but we have been like this for over a month now.

Will she eat with her hands???

Why not try just giving her bits of food on her tray / table to see if she'll just feed herself? My DS weaned at 26 weeks refused spoons & purees so I just started giving him food (have you looked at Aitch's blog www.babyledweaning.com)

Thanks, had a nosey at BLW and worth a try. She likes to touch food but very wary about putting things in her mouth, she seems to know its food. She seems disinterested in eating and just wants the human milk churn. Hopefully BLW will change her mind.

well, if it doesn't immediately don't panic. the gist of BLW is that 'until they're one food's just for fun', lots of babies don't et the hang of food for a while so you cna save yourself the stress of worrying about it by not cutting back on milk, not trying any tricks and basically just offering what you're having and seeing what happens next. the only difficulty there is that it does put extra responsibility onto you if you're not thrilled to be feeding, but that's something you'll have to work out for yourself. as it is, the situation's not any different with spoons, it's just the added stress you're getting. can you just try to take a break from solids for a couple of days, she's probably not been getting much anyway tbh. seven months is very young, really...

Just to say my LO wasn't really interested in food until c. 8 1/2 months - didn't make any difference if it was on a spoon or finger food. He'd just mouth it a bit, maybe swallow 2 mouthfuls and then not want anything more to do with it. Then he suddenly got it and now eats, not huge quantities, but enough. Maybe some babies aren't ready for solids til later than 6 months.

Sounds like she just isnt quite ready yet. I would just keep offering (& by that I mean simply putting them in front of her - no pressuring, persuading etc) finger foods & she will want to explore them eventually. As long as she is bf on demand she will ensure she gets enough calories & nutients. My DS had his first solids blw style at 29 weeks but wasnt that impressed after the initial 1st week so we left them until he was a month or so older. I know a few mums whose LOs didnt eat any solids until they were over a year as well.

Thanks for the messages. Nice to know that other babies don't wolf down food. I shouldn't have read the weaning books that make it sound as though she should be eating her own body weight in food (slight exageration). Will keep on with her fav breast milk and stop the trickery.