Finger foods just slip out of baby's hands

[cirillaofcintra]

Hi all, my DD is 6.5 months and we are roughly following the weaning plan in 'How to wean your baby' which is a mix of finger foods and purees/mashed food.

However I am finding that most of the finger foods suggested just slip out of her hands/fingers and she can rarely get a good grip on them to get them into her mouth properly. They have to be soft enough to be safe for her, but this means they are slippery
she can't pick them up/hold them and they just get smooshed all over the high chair. She then gets frustrated, shouts/cries and wants to be picked up.

We've tried avocado, banana, courgette, potato sticks, swede, cucumber. She can hold broccoli OK.

I haven't seen this mentioned in any of the BLW guides, will she just get better at gripping/holding as time goes on?

Good advice from others. Two others things we did - leave skin on some things to keep it together. We gave sliced avocado/melon/mango etc. Gums didn't get through the skin but allowed him to chew the fruit or whatever it was. We also smooshed food onto toast fingers. Usually whatever we were eating smooshed on to toast. It gave good opportunity for flavour exposures until he could hold other stuff more easily.

The French advice given by paediatricians is to follow the proper way of eating.

Offer with a spoon foods that are liquid (soups, yoghurt) or mashed, with a fork food that have a more solid texture (vegetables, egg, fish, meat, pasta, ..) and offer in hand food that would normally be eaten by hand, a piece of bread, a piece of watermelon...
We don't talk about finger food, and we definitely do not offer junk food such as puffs.
Invest in a few baby forks. Preload them the first times.
Most French babies eat with cutlery , either being fed or themselves, and French kids are not known to have dexterity issues. All this labelling about encouraging hand coordination is just crap from manufacturers to make you buy ultra-processed goods