Baby will not eat solids - at all!

[FuckyDuzz]

DD is 7 months and is my fourth baby so I thought I knew what I was doing and I don’t have any crazy expectations of weaning
But she will not let any kind of solid food pass her lips at all and I have no idea why or what to do about it

I’ve tried; spoon feeding, feeding from a pouch, finger foods, giving her loaded spoons, feeding in a high chair, bumbo or just sat on the floor, in the morning, afternoon and evening, while we eat or just on her own
And not a single bit has gone in

She just won’t open her mouth and if I trick her by pretending to put a drink in she spits it out before I’ve even took the spoon away
She won’t pick food up off the tray, just waves her arms in the air, and she won’t take it out of my hand, if I hand her a toy it goes straight to her mouth but if I hand her food she somehow knows it’s food and she drops it straight on the floor

She literally has never had more than one accidental spoonful of food and I am at a loss now

What on Earth do I do?!

Stay calm! She will get there, some babies just aren't interested in food, dd didn't really care for it till she was nearly one. As long as she is still getting a decent amount of milk she will be fine. Keep giving her food to try every day, and don't panic if she doesn't eat. Babies don't know that food=sated hunger, they just think it's some weird textural stuff.

DD2 was a little like this but nowhere near as extreme. She refused all spoon food and was extremely anti finger food with some tolerance until about 7.5 months when one day she tolerated it a bit more. It was very stressful.

From memory the general advice is to give milk before food. However as DD2 was so uninterested my health visitor said to do it the other way around. Might that be worth a try?

One of mine did that to begin with. So I just completely stopped trying to feed him solids after about 3 days of rejection and went back to milk only... tried again about 3 weeks later and it was a different story, he was completely up for it and never looked back (he's nearly 5 now and still loves his food).

I know they say 6 months but I guess that's just an average and like with all the other milestones every baby is different there's a huge range of when is normal when it comes to be ready to do things...

My little girl was like this early on and I don't think food really started going in until 8 months, but it all came back out as well 🙈. She's my first, tiny little thing so I was worried, but she turned 1 and started to turn a corner and only in the last few weeks has started eating. In fact she ate all her lunch at nursery today - her first full day there as well. Well I nearly fell over, I had to check that was my child 😂

maybe just do BLW for now and pop her in the high chair when you're eating and when convenient. We stuck with BLW mostly a little it of spoon feeding on and off x

Just wait a bit longer, she'll get there.

Wait. It’s all you can do, she’ll come round to it.
Ps if she’s still eating purée when she goes to uni, you can berate me