feel like I’m failing at weaning my 8 month old :-(

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I started weaning my baby at 6 months with one veg puréed at breakfast

I increased this to puréed fruit at breakfast and a veg combo at lunch for maybe a month

He’s now 8 months old (just) and he’s having 3 “meals” a day but still only having fruit/yogurt/sometimes porridge for breakfast then puréed veg combos with puréed fruit after each for lunch and dinner.

He’s not had meat, grains etc and I feel a bit overwhelmed with it all. So much conflicting advice but starting to feel he’s not getting enough food.

Does anyone have any advice on how I can start introducing meat and fish and if I need to be at this age...

I feel the mums around me are in full meal swing now with their babies similar ages to mine eating food they eat and I feel like I’m really behind.

You can just give him what you are eating minus salt?
For breakfast offer him toast, cut up some fruit, porridge.
Lunch- omlette, pasta, soup
Etc.
You can make dal and rice and a veggie curry and offer it.
Stir fry noodles with veggies (you can cut up the veggies smaller than usual if you want to).

It sounds absolutely fine to me. I did BLW with my first two and they weren’t having three meals a day until about a year old. For various reasons I’ve been doing purées with my now 7 month old (alongside finger foods) and he’s having porridge in the morning (with some sticks of fruit to feed himself), usually a veg purée at lunchtime with some carrot sticks/sweet potato wedges or something like that and similar in the evening.
Do you give him finger foods to get him used to feeding himself?

Oh and in terms of meat and fish, I just pop a bit on his highchair tray and let him explore them himself.

Oh and I give him bits of toast with his breakfast, or oat pancakes etc (sorry for multiple messages))

Introduce some finger foods at this age, then porridge at breakfast for grains and then what ever you cook minus salt - I don’t use it in cooking so mine ate whatever we did no problem at all. More mashed than purées for mine. But you’re not failing just getting things a bit muddled but he’s still eating 3 meals just need to vary them up more and realise he’s able to eat normal meals whether you purée them or mash
Sure he’ll be eating all sorts very soon. I’ve got 4 boys and they love their food so was fun weaning to find out what they enjoyed and then seeing what they’ll try as they get older

We eat a lot of things made with mince- spag bol (with spag cut up short)/mild chilli + rice - started with this sort of thing around the age your baby is. Fits on a spoon and sticks together.
Not much went in really at first even feeding her.

I really worried with my first, he had lots of purees etc, feel like I never quite got it right. With the second one I never actively weaned him, I just made food available. He mostly stole food off my plate and shoved it in his face. Worked a treat

Basically, whatever you're doing, don't worry too much. Do try varying textures and finger foods though, so he gets used to different things early on.

You could try the "weaning" app which has loads of good and easy recipes that include meat, fish etc. I used those recipes a lot with my DS, they're ones that are attractive to babies eg cheesy cod etc. It's also good to just give little bits of what you're having, salmon, chicken breast etc.