Mummasue- I can sympathise with the worry about whether they are eating enough. All the problems we have had with DD1 and her diet, I found it a bit hard with DD2 and the BLS to keep myself thinking she is eating enough and are we doing the right thing. She's almost 10 months and I've never seen a child eat with the abilities that she does. It took till about 9 months till she was really consuming a decent amount of food, before that she mainly played and experimented with it. Now I can see the time line forming that they say a baby should develop at, 6-9 month food is for experimenting and no nutrition required from it, 9-12 months transition starts from experimenting to actually requiring the nutrition and dropping milk as the main source. She has started to eat much more, I go to clean up sometimes and was used to picking it up off the floor and scrapping it off the inside of the highchair and now I get shocked cause I don't find scraps which means she has eaten the entire lot. Her coordination and motor skills are amazing, she uses her tiny little fingers with agile speed, picking out tiny bits of food to play with and eat. She's only 7 months, plenty of time to get there.