Thankyou all for your replys

I was really dreading having to go down not only the puree path, but to basically give her liquid food I was wondering how long it would take to get anywhere with that, but I hope the little man that is in my head doesn't get to me ('don't cause complete solid rejection by going down the BLS path ).

I will go back to just trying every few days and see how she goes, she already suffers enough from the reflux, forcing the food is just making it worse.

RB ~ A friend had a great spoon for self feeding she did BLS with her first, I am going to ask where she got it from, but it is a bit early for DD2 to give it a shot as she needs to build her fine motor skills a bit more first

BR ~ How frusting for you a bit of damned if you do and damned if you don't! Thankyou for asking she is a lot brighter today so hopefully it was just a once off (that we don't want to repeat again!)

HotI ~ Thanks for your experience, it is good to know that 8 months or even a bit longer isn't out of the ordinary. I will just have to continue to battle certain family members who have been on my back about solids since DD2 was 3 1/2 months I keep saying the same thing over and over again, it may sink in with them one day

Thankyou all for taking the time to respond