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LO isn't quite 6 months (5.5) but she is showing ZERO interest. She'll slobber all over a banana if we give it to her, but nothing actually gets eaten, and she has no interest in playing with the food... when we try purees, it just dribbles down her mouth.

I figure I'll just keep trying every couple of weeks in hopes that a switch flips! I mean, they don't *have* to have food yet, so I'm trying not to stress!

@tlcbaby: right? She'll very happily chew on my fingers, the tv remote, my phone...anything! But food? Oh heck no! It's so weird!

whew! I thought my LO was the only one. he seems interested in mashed food, and will happily grab his spoon and gnaw on it. but he'll push most of the food out with his tongue. and he almost always seems stressed after a little while and sometimes there are tears. so maybe he's not so interested in food yet?

he's 6mo + 1wk now and we've been trying pretty consistently (once a day) to feed him for the past month or so. slow going

My girl wanted NOTHING to do with solids until she was maybe like 8-9 months and even then she could take them or leave them. Only now that she's over a year do I really feel she'd really miss them if I didn't give them to her. I persisted at 6 months, every day or every other day just offering her food with no expectations. It was kind of frustrating at times! When I got too frustrated I'd give it a day or two

My LO is 15 months now but I posted basically this exact same thing around 6 months. We ended up offering food once a day and it took a few weeks but eventually he came around. He much preferred jarred baby food and pouch purees to the BLW and homemade purees we tried at first, so we just followed his lead and kept offering chunky foods as well. We also tried to eat at the same time as him whenever possible. Now he's a great eater! There is hope.