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Yes it is totally stressful! And don't worry about skipping a day here or there. It isn't necessary and it is hard to fit it into a schedule of bottle/nurse. We didn't really do solids every day three meals a day until he was like, nine months possibly older. I just did it when I could get a break in the nursing schedule.

Not ridiculous at all! I was probably the same way. Totally excited at first to do the BLW then nervous about everything. I kind of stopped until around 10 months then tried again. I tried not to worry cause she was nursing like crazy.

We gave her a few soft foods in chunks to start, then did chunky homemade purees for maybe 3 weeks or a month? We did one meal a day until she was 8 months old. And if it wasn't convenient, we skipped it. At 9 months she is eating three meals a day, and seems to really want those meals. I also give her an afternoon snack, but that's usually just to keep her busy for a minute.
We quickly moved to table foods and by 7.5-8 months she was just eating whatever we ate, cut into small chunks.
If blw is stressful or scary, you can do some purees. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
Purees were so much fun, we got her naked and handed her a full spoon.she loved playing in it, and I felt like she was still guiding her eating experience because we handed her the spoon.
Who knows what the future holds, but at 9 months she eats a huge range of things with ease, and loves all kinds of favors.... Curry, spicy spaghetti sauce, chili, whatever.
We have tons of hilarious pictures of her totally covered in food. It was so joyful to see her just relishing in it!
She also occasionally "stores" things in her mouth. I don't give her hard foods, like raw veggies very often because I do worry about choking with those.

Our doctors advice was to just expose her to as many favors as you can, and not worry about amount or anything else. Just try to make food fun, and a family experience. It gets better! Watching her devour a whole serving of my homemade spaghetti and meatballs last night was a wonderful feeling

I thought it was so stressful! We started with one meal a day and then added in breakfast and did lunch last.

We just did purées and added in finger foods when he developed a pincer grasp around 8mo. At one year he is just now on mostly finger foods.

I would say don't worry too much about doing a certain method or feeling like you have to live up to a certain ideal of ways to feed baby! Mine really hated chunky purées for a while and didn't get into finger feeding later than other babies. He eats like a champ now though! My MIL was so worried about us giving him dairy under a year (and just told me again I should cut it out of my diet!)

You'll slowly figure out what LO likes and doesn't like and his to work with that. Not that you just give into everything they like and avoid what they don't. But for instance my LO loved Os and not bananas so I kept introducing bananas but would mix them up with Os. I learned he didn't like thick purées and to water them down a bit and that he was more interested in a new vegetable when it was mixed with a fruit. And that he was happy with stuff cold so we could skip the microwave!

Just keep going. I think solids daily is important but I wouldn't worry about missing a meal here or there at this age. You will figure it out!

I didn't have quite that many worries because we didn't do blw, but I do think its ok to skip meals sometimes but your LO will let you know when it's not ok anymore. The one thing I learned was o follow your lo's lead. I was worried when dd got to almost one and ha only recently made the jump to some table foods by was on more purées than not. Soon after that she rejected purées pretty much altogether. I wish I had trusted that she would get to it on her own instead of worrying so much about "teaching" her to eat.