Starting solids
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Not doing something wrong at all. Some babies are more food motivated. My daughter just loves to play with her food and play with her spoon independently and make a big mess 🫠😅 Don’t force feed bc it can have the reverse effect and even more refusal. Just offer it to him and if he’s not into it, don’t stress. Also I found playing with different times in the day has helped.
It is tough in the beginning! We went months and months before he would try anything more than one bite. We gave up on spoon feeding and switched to baby led weaning. We gave him things like carrot and cucumber sticks to chew on since his teeth were bugging him he enjoyed that but wouldn't actually eat any bits of the hard veggies. We would strip him down to his diaper and give him a plate of purees and some larger pieces of naan and he would splash in it, throw the naan around, drool over everything, but eventually he started getting tastes of food off his fingers. It took him time to learn that it tasted good and he could put things in his mouth and swallow them. Try each food a few times, and in possibly a few ways, before moving onto the next. My kiddo hated broccoli puree but I'd give him a chunk of broccoli that is steamed to mush and he would demolish it! Have fun with it, and get messy, since solids really are just for fun before one 😁
It's completely developmentally normal. Solids before the age of 1 are more about experiencing new tastes and textures, and learning the mechanics of feeding over actual nutrition. Expect a lot of mess and very little actually ending up in the mouth. The important thing is to be patient, keep it light, keep offering a variety of healthy foods (sometimes repeated as baby may take 2, 3, 6 tries before they actually eat it). They will get it! It's a whole new skill set they need to learn, it will take time for them to be really proficient eaters, so they need a lot of practice.