Baby food refusal - breastfed baby

[Hells1992]

My little girl (6 and 1/2 months) is ready to eat, but she won't. She is too smart to eat what I want to feed her, but wants to eat what I'm eating. Example: we were eating fast food, I tried everything to trick her, but all she wanted was the chips. I eventually gave in and gave her a chip. She sucked on one for a little while, but still didn't eat it. She eats a tiny bit, but loves breast milk and doesn't seem to want to move on, even though she desperately wants what we are eating.

She also won't drink milk from a bottle, yet if I give her water now it's from a sippy cup. She will also drink from a glass😅.

She is a little independent minx, any suggestions?

I'd like to add, she has been fed a balance of green and sweet stuff since 6m. She got baby rice mixed with breastmilk since 5 and 1/2 m, I was very careful not to start her too early. That isn't the issue. She is just a little monkey.

Are you eating the same foods you're offering to her? Babies often want to eat what they see their parents eating

She is too smart to eat what I want to feed her, but wants to eat what I'm eating.

Why can't she just do that? Obviously some things need to be adjusted for babies but there's loads of things that you can make for yourself that a baby can eat. Especially since at this age you're probably only giving her small amounts, one or two meals a day?
You can both have porridge, or toast, or scrambled eggs, or fruit (some fruits better than others for babies, and will need to be cut appropriately), or some natural yoghurt for breakfast for example.

It doesn't have to be baby food. Give her soft, safe, chompable finger food and drinks in a sippy cup or open cup, which is no bad thing as that is your goal. She will be getting most of her nutrition from breast milk for a while, yet, anyhow

Neither DSs ate until they were nearly 9 months. They played with food, they sucked on things, they put yoghurt everywhere except their mouths (once…my views on how wedded I was to BLW were adjusted at the point). DMIL (who is fab) admits she watched with horror as they simply didn’t eat. But drank breast milk like champions. And then they did eat. And are both still (8 and 11) good eaters in terms of variety of stuff they’ll eat.

All in all…it’s fine, don’t panic.

Can't you just feed her what your having (fast food aside) no point in baby rice, most nutrition needs to come from milk still at this age and baby rice has no nutritional content (and isn't recommended due to possible arsenic levels)

Just cut up what you're having and let her experiment.

I've tried giving her so many "good" things and then things I have made her that we are eating without the salt etc. She isn't interested, so it seems. Then suddenly she wants something. I try, but she wants something else 😅

Thank you for all your feedback. I appreciate it so much, and some of your advice is genuinely appreciated and will be taken as is, the rest will be taken with a pinch of salt. I know my baby, and I know she isn't craving ham sandwiches, but maybe she wants some of what I'm eating. Thank you for your input, and thank you for helping when I wasn't sure what she needed. I appreciate you. Good night. X

My DD would only ever want what we were having. It might be time to adapt your food so it's also suitable for her