So LO turned 6 months on Valentine's Day and we had started offering purees to him a couple days before. He's interested in food, but not really big on eating the purees. I think it may be a texture thing, so we're going to try out some different things, but, overall, I'm offering and letting him taste things and explore and generally trying not to stress about it. I'm still nursing on demand and he nurses about every 3 hours.

Can I first just get some reassurance that his 'eh' attitude isn't anything to be concerned about? I've read about a dozen times that it isn't, babies are all different, he doesn't have an automatic "YEAH SOLIDS!" switch, blah blah, but when I get the concerned opinions of friends and the "well, my babies slept through the night after we gave him rice cereal in their bottles, have you tried that??" speech from family, I could use a "Nah, he's fine" opinion to off set it

Also, when he was first born, we opted to not give him the vitamins that the pediatrician was adamant about. We ordered the Carson (I think that was the name) Vitamin D drops but have since stopped giving those (lost them when we were out and about, whoops). When the doctor asked about them at our last appointment he was very, uh, not happy?, about us not giving them to him. I know I've read that his iron stores start depleting around this time and I'm an anemic who frequently forgets to take her own supplements, so how do those of you who decided not to give the over-the-count vitamins handle this time? I figured I'd just try and offer him lots of diverse, iron-rich foods. If necessary, I'll try and find some vitamin drops that don't include dyes and HFCS, which was our concern initially.

Thoughts?