How to get baby to eat more?

[JosieB68]

Any advice welcome.
9 month old has done a mixture of purée and BLW from 6 months old, she’s now over 9 months and never really got the hang of eating proper food yet.
Sitting here after another meal that 95% of has landed on the floor.
She will happily eat yoghurt, porridge and melty puffs or wafers.
She also doesn’t mind puréed pouches but I make most meals myself and she’s not interested.
Any recipe ideas that got your babies eating would be great! Or did you change meal times or how you offered the food? Any suggestions welcome.
Any solid food she nibbles then spits out swallowing very little.
For context she’s not a small baby 91st percentile for weight 😂

www.annabelkarmel.com

@DrJoanAllenby thanks I’ve got the Annabelle Karmel app, I pay £2 a month I think and I have used her recipes.

Try the Baby Led Weaning Cookbook app, I am loving it.

Don't worry, she is in the learning stage of eating. Just let her keep exploring. Some will go in and it will increase as she gets older. She can still get plenty of nutrition from milk.

Assume you’re doing all the usual of sitting at the table with her and eating at the same time? Offering food but not forcing it? Have you tried changing the time of day you feed her? Or seeing what she’s like if different people are around the table (eg friends, other babies)?

I don’t think I’d do anything different at all: Keep mealtimes low pressure and fun, keep offering a range of foods (a few things in different textures for each meal rather than only one choice). And wait it out!

"Under 1 it's just for fun"

I think this is important to remember - milk still forms the main basis of her nutrition and that bits and bobs of food from weaning is a plus.

You're building eating habits for life, so it's really important that mealtimes are relaxed without pressure, a variety of different foods are offered and that she chooses what and how much she eats.

She'll get there. It can be surprising how little some young children eat and still grow and develop perfectly well.

Thanks everyone. Yes think I need to relax more, I am probably putting a bit too much pressure on her to eat, not forcing but I am putting food towards her mouth and can see she prefers to pick it up herself just not actually swallow much of it!
she’s still breastfed and taking about 5 feeds during the day and up through the night too.

You say BLW in your post; why not take the pressure off yourself and go down the baby led route? Eat with her and let her have what she wants of your foods. There are loads of resources. Try very hard not to cajole if you can.

We find that our baby of a similar age eats much better if she's eating what we eat. For example, tonight was beef and veg bolognese with rigatoni and she ate nearly all of it. While last night, we didn't eat with her and she only ate around 50% of her dinner.

Try not to worry about it. They go through phases. My DS barely ate anything until about a 10 months and then from 14 months onwards he was a ravenous beast and literally needed to eat all day.

Just keep doing what you’re doing and one day she’ll just decide to eat something new. You can’t force it, you’ll just stress yourself out.

Just serve some of what you are having as a mix of spoon and finger food

You don't need to make special baby food just don't add salt whne cooking.