feeding solids???

You can try mixing breastmilk in with the food you prepared. Some food add it to eggs, baby oatmeal. Babies don’t need full meals when they are ebf and even a few bites is sufficient to get them into the groove of eating. I am in the same boat but letting my mom handle it since my baby only wants milk from me.

It's basically all for fun and experimenting until they're 1. Just use the next couple months for them to taste as many things as possible to learn their favorites. Both my boys barely ate anything in large quantities at 9.5 months as well, but they did at least start to get curious and get to play with food.

Does your baby eat purées or do you mean rice and beans solids? For my baby I would give him 3 meals as in fruit purées, oatmeal, veggie blends at specific times everyday and bc he was eating foods it reduced the amount of milk he drinks. They might need to eat more for their tummies to get use to “new food.” Is your cooking bland as well or seasoned because they might need to start with more bland food and work their way up to seasoned food. Have you spoken to their pediatrician about baby foods they recommend.

My baby is 9.5 months and exclusively breast fed and eats 3 normal meals (not purées) and some snacks as well as water. I started at 6 months with purées and let her explore and play with it until she realized it was food. Probably the whole month. She slowly started eating more and more over time and exposures. Exposure is important the earlier the better. Let it be messy.

I’m actually going through the same thing with my 9-month-old. I got to the point where I felt like I couldn’t handle it anymore, so I talked to his pediatrician and asked for a referral to a feeding specialist. We’ve been doing the exercises they recommended, but honestly I haven’t seen much improvement yet. We have another appointment tomorrow, so hopefully we can figure something out because it can be such a frustrating and stressful situation. 😩