starting solids or doing led wean feeding

I would suggest that you perhaps seek professional advice on this if you have concerns - my understanding is the store of iron that a baby has from its mother is enough to last 6 months, and after that needs to be getting this from solid foods. Bearing in mind that iron is necessary for brain development, it's definitely worth investigating this. What sort of food are you trying? Just fruit purees for instance? Quite often babies starting out on solids only take a teeny amount.

I don't know anyone who has waited later than 6 months I'm afraid.

Both my boys were 6mths when I started solids, Jack on the traditional mush and Ben is following baby led weaning.
Personally I would suggest that you look into baby led weaning, there are a few threads on here. It took at least 2wks for Ben to actually swallow food which is fine and it probably took 4-6wks for him to be eating a large enough quantity for it to change the consistency of his dirty nappies! You could just try putting your baby in the highchair when you eat and just giving them some of what you are having (e.g. bread, cracker etc), all they will likely do is play with it but they will start getting used to food, this is what we did with Ben.
This thread is great and has heaps of info

I'm in the same boat. DS is 7 months old and not even slightly interested in solids. I've been trying him with baby rice or pureed food every few days and he won't have a bar of it. I figured I wouldn't start worrying iron-wise because as someone has already said, their iron stores don't suddenly up and vanish overnight, but if at 8 months he still refused food I'd get him checked. I presume he must get a degree of iron anyway from his BF (he is fully BF and I eat well)?

We are now doing the BLW approach, albeit very slowly. He has recently decided that a teething rusk or cruskit covered in marmite is the way to go. Earlier we sat at the table together with him in his highchair and I gave him half a banana and a slice of peach, neither of which he would entertain eating but they did get held and 'explored' although the look of disgust on his face was a picture. His eyes lit up at the sight of a rusk getting the marmite treatment.

Personally, if I were you, I wouldn't worry right now, especially as you're saying your GP has said things are fine. Just give him plenty of opportunities to explore either finger food, mush, or even a combination of the two.

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