Transitioning from purées to solids

We’ve been weaning around 6 weeks now on purées. The last 10 days or so we’ve either been giving the 7+ month shop bought pouches or making homemade purées with a lumpier texture which has been going well.
I made an omelette for my little girl this morning and cut it in strips and she just kept gagging and it was getting a bit stuck in her mouth and I think she was panicking which was making it worse and she burst out crying!
Any advice? Am I supposed to be doing lumpier purees/textures for a bit longer maybe then try solids? X

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Just keep offering solids, they get used to it. I'm doing BLW and my son eats everything lol.

My LG starts to panic sometimes with some solids I offer her and I just try and encourage her to keep coughing/gagging when it happens as it is a good thing. Once she has passed the bad bit she usually calms down. It is scary for them as well as us bless them. I would just keep offering the foods you are. My LG struggled with omelette aswell. It's not as easy to squish in your mouth I think anyway. But I've been offering pancakes, porridge fingers etc that are easier for her to get used to it. She had omelette again the other day and did so much better then the first time round. Do what you are comfortable with. There isn't a rush x

Gagging on finger foods and non-puree solids is totally normal 😊 We went down the BLW route and she still gags occasionally (normally when she's tried to cram the whole but in her mouth rather than just a little bit 😂) but it's massive progress from when she first started. She actually made herself sick a few times at the beginning on potato (any kind - wedges, mash, sweet potato) because she loved it so much that she was pushing it too far back too quickly 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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