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Our daycare wasn't ok with BLW at 6 months so I sent purees to school and we did solids at dinner.

She got purées at daycare and whole foods and purées at home

our daycare did BLW type of feeds starting at 1. We did whole milk from a cup at daycare at 1 as well. We just nursed when she was around me, no pumping. She did fine even as a very nursey baby - she nursed a lot on weekends and had long morning and night sessions, but was totally fine without pumped milk otherwise.

I feel like whether you start with purees or BLW usually babies are pretty good with finger food by 12 months?? We sort of started with BLW at 5.5 mo but it wasn't going well so we switched to purees with just a little bit of finger food at like 8 mo and now at 10mo we've just switched back to mostly finger food and she is doing SO much better. She hasn't reduced her formula intake at all yet and she isn't really consuming that much volume of food yet, but I have seen so much progress in the last month that I feel like it could be a whole new ballgame at 12 mo. I sort of feel like it is just hard to predict/control things too much with babies eating and you need to go with the flow a bit in getting them on solids.

We did BLW starting at 5 months and she was eating solids well before a year. She still drinks a lot of milk, but by a year it was WCM. You should definitely give BLW a try and see how it goes, you will likely be more than fine by 12 months.