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My bay Girl is 10 months old,  She was given home made food to start and the odd jar when I didn't have prep time (With 2 older children).  She would never eat the homemade food well so I gave her the jars.  When I spoke to the health visitor I was told that it was fine and to increase the lumps and texture gradually. I have done all of this.  She refused point blank to eat it.  (I have even tryed the jars with bits to no result).  She will eat finger foods but I have no idea how much she is eating and am now left stressed out wondering what to do to move her on.  Anyone PLEASE HELP!! I am sure by child number 3 you are ment to know the answers to everything lol. 

Hi, if it was me I would go with the finger food.  Put out as much as you think she'll want and if she finishes it offer a little more till she's full.  Babies seem to know when to stop, like when the pull away from the breast or bottle when they've had enough.  If she's feeding herself she can obviously handle lumps just wants to be independent.  She is probably copying her older sibblings and what they do to eat.

Nat x

Hi there, ive had the same problem wiv my baby girl she 13 months nw, bt has been a right pain 4 feeding. She wud only eat the dersert jar food an anythin lumpy she jst spat out. So i started 2 give her finger food n has been fine since. I started by jst giving her bread n butter sandwich n banana chopped up, then wen jst got use 2 it started puttin abit ov spread cheese or jam on the sandwich. As 4 tea she was always goin for wait her brother was having so tried her with pizza, new pototoes n peas, carrots n sweetcorn i think it was the inpendence she just wanted. Always i get my son the good stuff ready meals at asda i.e cottage pie, chicken dinners n try her wiv them n she loved them 2. hope i been sum help.

lisa, lydia 13months n jack 5 x

My son is 14 months but was born 10 weeks early. I am going through the same problem. He will only eat the stage 1 jars anything else makes him bork and then is sick. I have had numerous meetings with the health visitor and he has been referred to the dietician and speech therapist. Both the health visitor and his paeditrician think it is because the muscles in his mouth and throat have not developed properly and are not strong enough to take the lumpier food.

Hi Angela, I both empathise and sympathise with you.  My son (youngest of 4 but No 5 due in 2 weeks) is really fussy whereas his sisters (11, 9 and 8) weren't.  I used to give Matthew loads of jars due to time and I also went back to work when he was 9 months old.  He refused and still refuses sandwiches which isn't a great help in a busy household!  He's been ill a couple of times with the usual colds and he's also had gastroentiritis twice.  He first had this about 9 months old and it seemed to take forever for him to re-start eating.  In Dec last year he had a really bad cold which lasted about 3 weeks and blankly refused to eat anything, even chocolate.  We had him checked over by the GP just to make sure nothing was wrong, but experience tells you the essential part is fluids and  he will eat when he's ready.  He re-started with yogurts, bananas and raisins and very slowly he progressed onto his normal foods.  We also found his favourite food - macaroni cheese and used to buy loads of tins but he was eating.  He is very independent and since he could put food in his mouth he has done and we cannot feed him anything, even though it goes everywhere!  We also found if we were eating something, he wanted it, even if a biscuit that he would take from our mouths.  Keep offering foods (even if she throws them on the floor or spits them out) and  hang in there.  What was quite annoying too was that he would eat foods at nursery and the childminder, but he wouldn't eat them for us!  Some days he'll eat meatballs, somedays he won't.  With Matthew I've found he doesn't like texture, hence the sandwiches, so we introduced texture in a different way - grapes, raisins etc.  Only yesterday my eldest daughter made Matthew a bowl of grapes and sliced banana, but because the banana was sliced and not in its usual whole or  half size, he refused to eat it.  A few weeks ago, he would eat half a grape and still spit it out, but yesterday he ate whole ones.  Praise them for what they have eaten.  Keep going and offering, I know how hard it is and over time she'll get there, just like the others did and you know there is light at the end of the tunnel x