LO is almost 10 months old, and eats solids pretty well. He eats iron fortified cereal and fruit for breakfast, fruits and/or veggies and/or bread, hummus, etc for lunch, and sometimes snacks such as fruit or mum mums. We do BLW style, so sometimes he eats a bunch, sometimes it's more play. He still nurses a lot.

Our problem is dinner- he's been having a meltdown every night at dinner for a while, why?? We put him in his highchair and try to eat as a family. We've tried in the living room with music or TV in the background, and in the dining room with no distractions. We've tried table food, finger foods, spoon feeding, purees, pouches-nothing seems to stop him from starting out ok, but quickly refusing food and screaming/crying. We've tried removing him from the highchair, having him in our laps, on the floor...nothing helps!

Any advice? Is this a phase? I really want him to get used to family dinner, what bothers him, do you think?