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Perhaps you could start the baby led weaning at home on the weekends and see how he does before starting it at daycare

we gave olive some purees in the beginning because her hand control was so poor she couldn't feed herself. but once she had a taste of solids she could chew, she flat out rejected purees. she hates them now!

just something that might happen if your lo loves chewing real food as much as olive.

Our daycare likes to have us introduce all the foods at home first, then send things we already know that LO likes/tolerates. At 5 months, we did lots of finger foods during dinner--broccoli, sticks of bell pepper, cucumber, pieces of banana, etc. LO did a lot of exploring and occasionally swallowed some things so you could try that. She is 7.5 months now and we mostly do purees and she still likes them, even though we continue to do the finger foods sometimes....

Although people suggest it ALL the time, there have been lots of studies done that show that starting solids (cereal OR BLW) doesn't change a baby's sleeping through the night status. Most babies do start sleeping a bit better around 5-6 months, which is also when most babies start eating solids, but research has shown it's not a causal relationship. We love BLW, but whatever you decide, don't feel pressured by others to do something different than what YOU want to do!

@obxwife: I hear you! We were met with a ton of questions/opinions when we decided to do BLW, but trust yourself; YOU know what is best for your baby

@obxwife: If I don't want to get into it I just sort of say, "oh, we just kind of skipped purees" or you can blame it on your baby saying he didn't want them
As far as daycare goes, remember that at first you will probably only be giving one solid "meal" a day, then slowly building up to 2, then 3, so you could avoid all solids at daycare for quite awhile if you wanted to. By the time you wanted to send finger foods to daycare he might be 8-9 months, and so they will probably be much more comfortable with feeding him finger foods by then. In the meantime if you do want to do solids at daycare, you could stick with foods that are normally fed from a spoon- oatmeal, yogurt, soups- and emphasize that you want your son to really lead the way on how much he eats. Usually the biggest issue with others feeding our son was that they wanted him to eat a certain amount and would try to coerce/trick him into doing so, and we'd have to really emphasize that we didn't mind if he only had one bite or none... baby led!

I'm a big not fan of rice cereal, I can't see how it benefits a baby to give them something that fills them up but has almost no nutritional value!

Everyone thought we were insane when we tried to explain BLW, and then they were in awe when they watched her eat

I didn't do daycare, but I understand how hard it is to go against what everyone assumes is the only way to do things.