You can start weaning with single vegetables and fruits – try blended or mashed parsnip, broccoli, potato, butternut, sweet potato, carrot, apple or pear. Just start with one to two teaspoons before a milk feed at lunchtime
Many people prefer purées to baby rice for a couple of reasons. Firstly, baby rice a high carbohydrate, highly processed product. Most brands are made from white rice, which quickly metabolizes into sugar. We know that we need to avoid foods that give us sugar spikes, and the same goes for babies. Secondly, a recent study found that a number of brands of baby rice, and some baby cereals made with baby rice, contained potentially harmful toxins such as arsenic, linked with cancer, and cadmium, a metal that can cause kidney damage. These toxins enter the product through contaminated water used to irrigate rice crops in certain countries. Usually, mums only give baby rice for the first two or three days of weaning, while their babies get used to taking food from a spoon.
For the first month (or two weeks at least), just offer solids once a day and continue feeding as often as before. At about 7mo, add solids as her appetite increases, a few mouthfuls at a time, after her usual feed until she shows signs of fullness; i.e. turning her head, closing her mouth, batting at the spoon, spitting the food out, etc. (trying to feed past this point is overfeeding). Most babies will balance their milk intake with their solid food intake well if you feed in this way.
All you need to do is to continue to offer foods. Don’t worry if she’s not interested or takes very small amounts. Your only true responsibility is what you offer and when you offer it, not whether or not she eats it. That has to be up to her.