When did your baby ‘get’ solids?

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Some days DD2 is 7.5 months, weaning since 6 months. She will refuse the spoon along with any finger foods some days, then other days she will take a little bit here & there either from a spoon or something she’s feeding herself.
Overall she’s not eating much at all. I always offer something at every meal. Whether it’s something I’ve mashed up or finger foods.
I’m just wondering when she might start eating properly?
She’s having 36oz (ish) formula a day still, do you think she’s not eating much because she has so much milk? Or she just hasn’t got the hang of it all yet?

I could have written this myself. Baby is same age, lots of milk but probably eats less than yours. Will chew on a rice cake & that's about it. Refuses purees that are lumpy now or finger food. I'm not panicking as I'm sure he will eat but I'm just wondering like you when will he. I have mixed it up, offer food before milk, a bit of milk then food but nothing is working. He just will not open his mouth. He will put every toy in his mouth but give him a carrot stick or broccoli & he makes a face, even toast he won't gum on.

That's a lot of milk! She probably isn't hungry.

Try doing food before milk eg
Breakfast on waking
Bottle mid morning
Lunch
Bottle mid afternoon
Tea
Bottle before bed

I'm guessing she still has a night feed but hopefully will drop it as she eats more.
You're aiming for around 20oz milk now, dropping to around 10-12oz after 12 months.

Definitely too much milk. Can you cut one bottle out this week and see how she gets on?

Mine is BF but he didn’t start consuming reasonable quantities until about 9mo and even then it’s hit and miss with teething, colds etc to contend with. I know lots of babies who are similar. He refused spoon feeding absolutely. Offering solids when he wanted a milk feed resulted in rage and definitely no solids tried at all. By all means try reducing milk but don’t worry if she’s taking her time to get to grips with solid food it’s not unusual

Thank you all, I’m going to try cutting her milk out a bit & see if that makes a difference.
‘Babney’ it’s very frustrating isn’t it. I don’t remember my first being like this.

Neither of mine ate significant amounts until 9-10 months. It's fine. It's a process, not something that just flips on like a switch one day. They really do need mostly milk until closer to 1, so I wouldn't limit milk feeds. I would give sufficient time between milk and solids so that she has time to be hungry, even if it means eating at odd times. Initially, it felt like all we did was eat (whether milk or food) and it was hard to leave the house and took a lot of planning.

But both of mine from 9-10 months really took off an have been hearty, non-fussy, adventurous eaters since. I think the key is lots of variety, but not making a big deal about it or turning into a pressured situation either.

It is frustrating. My first just started eating whatever we gave him so I didn't consider this happening.
I have to say though overall I'm not panicking, he's not my first child so I'm much more relaxed.
Have to say it's reassuring reading others experiences though!

DD is 9 months and has only really started eating some of her finger foods over the last month, I'm starting to see her actually chew and swallow some stuff now. And it's still very hit and miss, sometimes she won't touch anything and other times she'll eat a fair amount. She was always interested and happy playing with food but only the last few weeks has she learnt how to chew food a bit, move it to the back of her mouth, swallow etc and she is still refining her technique so it's hit and miss. She drinks more formula than other babies of her age that I know IRL but it does vary a lot, today she has had around 21oz of formula but on her most milky days she could have up to around 30oz although those days are becoming increasingly rare now. She will also happily be spoon-fed but only if it's something sweet, if it's not she will refuse the spoon after the first try . We made progress on this front and she started eating some veg purees and blended savoury meals at nursery but now she's got very unwell with a chest infection and eye infection and has regressed a bit on the weaning front but she seems to eat better at nursery than at home, she drinks much less milk at nursery and eats more solids. I think partly it's because we told nursery to give her bottles there at the same times as she has them at home, but nursery feed the meals at totally different times to what we do when she's at home with us, so at nursery she tends to get her solid meal followed by a bottle so understandably she drinks less milk, whereas at home she tends to have the bottle followed by the solid meal, so drinks her milk and then eats less solids.

Try not to worry much. Mine was 10 months before she cracked it - and to be honest at 20 months she's not really that into food.
I worried endlessly about it and looking back I wasn't doing anything wrong, they are just all ready at different paces. I know it's hard not to compare when it feels like everyone else's babies are hoofing down 3 course meals. I remember crying about it after an NCT meet up.