I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling I'm getting weaning all wrong, but would appreciate ideas and hearing from anyone who's been there.
My dd is 7.5 months and refuses to eat most veg. I started weaning her at 5mths on advice of HV (why do we ever listen to these people) who said it would help with her problematic sleeping (it didn't!). Anyway, basically gave her a little bit of baby rice with breast milk for most of the month and then a little fruit with it. She wasn't overly bothered and was slow to increase how much she took. She was okay as I started to introduce vegetable purees and then just stopped eating the veg (firmly closed mouth and head turned to the side whenever I offered it!).
Then I heard about baby led weaning and have been mainly doing this for about a month, but I also give her a pudding from a spoon after her evening meal (fruit puree mixed with baby rice and milk) as she eats so little with the blw and I want to fill her up to get her to sleep for longer at night. She also has cereal with fruit puree and milk in the monring. She will eat lots of the fruit puree and rice or cereal and reasonable amounts of chunks of fruit, as well as a bit of avocado, bread, potato, eggs, fish or chicken, but will not eat most veg either through blw approach or as puree, despite being offered it (varying options) at every meal.
Am getting worried that she'll never eat veg! Am I sabotaging the blw by giving her the pudding? Anyone else had this problem, and if so what happened?? Sorry it's such a long post!