OMG I just came online to post about my DD2 and your post Rosetti is my DD2 exactly!!!

DD1 no troubles starting solids. DD2 started trying just after 5 months, no good, 5.5 months still same, 6 months and still the same.. She clamps down like a vice and won't open her mouth or uses her tongue to block the opening or push whatever I do managed to get in, back out! She has measured in 10-25% since birth but at her 6 month check this week was almost up to the 50% so she has gained well just on milk. She is 6.9kg at 6.5 months. Only way to get anything in is if i trick her by making her laugh and be on the ready with the spoon. I've now tried puree on a spoon, puree on my finger, and have even tried some BLW which I'm not 100% comfortable with but gave it a shot. All she does is squishes the foods up into a puree and pushes them off the table, even with yummy fruit juices running off her arms she doesn't even put her hand in her mouth to taste it.

Having said that, put a toy, facecloth, dummy, bottle, someones hand/finger, anything for that fact in her hand and she puts it straight in her mouth, but food - no way!!

I am having #2 issues with her, major ones, and so the GP and clinic are all saying variety of foods to help this. I'd be happy to get her to eat 1 food let alone a variety. I've tried everything from carrot, sweet potato, pumpkin, peas, peach, pear, apple, mango, banana, yoghurt, and not only these alone but then tried varieties with different combinations of these. Nothing.. I have found I have a better chance of getting a couple of spoonfuls in that don't get pushed back out by her tongue if I mix whatever I have with some plain rice cereal. When she does try or get a small taste of some foods she screws her face up so I thought maybe the flavours were too strong for her and the rice cereal mixed with it seems to bland it down a bit.

Other than this I have no idea what else to try so i keep trying each day at lunch to get her to eat and then at dinner time she now sits at the table with us and I give her some food to play with. I'm still aiming for 1 meal a day, GP said not to try for more until she is actually eating so if I can get her to have some lunch, even if it's 2 spoons worth that is an accomplishment, and dinnertime is just play time.

Just saw this post is from November so I'd be interested to hear how you are going with this.