Hi Nicky sounds a similar story to my sister - my eldest nephew started conventionally on puree and rice cereal etc and now is RIDICULOUSLY fussy - he's now 4 and pretty much has a fear of food except a few self proclaimed "safe foods"... second nephew now aged 2 started straight on family foods and eats everything in his path (including nephew#1's leftovers!!)

Well said Mummy Tummy! and it's great to come here and bounce ideas off other people.

I think the thing about starting BLS is that initially you might want to just give softer foods more so for your own peace of mind, it doesn't take long to trust you baby's lead and build up confidence in the gag reflex! We've only been doing it for a week and already i've worked out that DS actually prefers bigger, slightly firmer pieces of food that are easier for him to hold on to.

Initially i thought we'd just do one meal a day and introduce new flavours slowly (i read somewhere that you should do one flavour every 3days or sthg) but tbh i found that doesn't really work with BLS as the idea is to let baby take the lead... and DS seemed to want to have a go of whatever i had or whatever was around! But obviously i'm not going to wake him up if he sleeps through lunch or something!

I think - make food fun and family/social time and hopefully that will continue for life!