Weaning - help!

Yeah I’ve tried baby porridge with formula. He wants to grab my food all the time. But everytime I give him some, he just plays with it. He sits up the table with me in his high chair with every meal and watches my every move but just won’t put anything near his mouth.

Just keep trying. My LO was similar, then all of a sudden one day he starting eating a fair bit - no idea what changed 🤷🏼‍♀️

Does he bring his hands or toys to his mouth? Solid Starts has really great resources on this. It’s not at all uncommon.

thank you, yeah I will do. I’m just going to keep offering things off my plate instead of making him something because it’s draining how much wastage lol!

yeah he brings hands and toys to his mouth just not food.

He may not be super ready, which is fine. what we did was just have our daughter join us for every meal and sometimes she ate sometimes she didn’t. she only started properly eating around 8.5 months when she decided she liked pasta. She barely ate breakfast until a year old - even now she isnt a breakfast person 😂 dont stress!

that makes me feel so much better! I keep seeing all these ‘he should be eating 3 meals and day and 2/3 snacks a day by 1 years old)’ and thinking we’ve got no chance at this rate lol

Super normal. Mine didn't start until 8ish months, though I continuously offered from 6 months. One day I offered him pureed peas and he just accepted. Then he had eyeballs on my yogurt the next day so I shared... And now you can't stop this little food monster.

All I would say is don’t give up hope and just keep on doing what you’re doing. My little one hated weaning at the beginning! He’d cry or eat very little initially. He’s now 16 months and such a little piggy 😂 easiest thing for me was ditching baby purées and just offering what we were having so even if he ate nothing it wasn’t loads of extra effort xx

My little boy is not a big eater! He will try everything but only because he puts literally everything in his mouth 😂 he likes fruit, cucumber, porridge, weetabix and toast, but anything else pretty much ends up on the floor. Reading the other comments gives me hope that it’ll click one day so I’ll just keep trying!

My little boy was like this and it was so stressful! Once he turned 1 and I took him off his formula he started to eat more food. He wouldnt eat anything before because he was full up on his milk.
He has now just turned 14 months old and eats really well! Try not to stress. Formula is their main source of food until they turn 1 anyway xx