8 month old will only eat liquidated purées

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Hi,

So I am a FTM and started weaning my DD at 6m.

Tried BLW for a few days... just mashed the food up in her hands never ate it. Tried purées and she kept her mouth shut. Stopped for a bit but decided to buy the sachets as was wasting time steaming everything for nothing.

She then began taking the sachet purées (veg ones only). She loves them and all was fine. Made me own for her so done some mash, as if was slightly thicker she just point blank refuses it.

Is it just a case of persistence? Surely forcing her to eat slightly thicker food is going to make her hate it more?

Can't see It getting better as she's now nearly 8m and still takes one mouthful, realises it's thicker and refuses!!

Help meeeee

I had the same with my son. He is 8 months old today and just started refusing some of the thicker purées I make tho the other week he ate them fine, he seems to struggle some days with the texture of chicken mushed up. I think it’s to do with his teething as his first tooth is just showing and coming up, we can see the white of it today. I’ve been giving him more finger foods like raspberries, toast fingers and cucumber sticks so he can feed himself and then I usually try the thicker purée again and it seems to work, I think it’s just persistence aswell as yesterday he wouldn’t eat the purée at lunchtime but he did at tea time fine. I’m going to try him with some mackerel later flakes up and give him some cooked carrot sticks and broccoli. I also skin grapes and tangerines chopped up and he loves to feed himself with these. Keep trying the thicker purées u will get there in the end :)