Weaning

a mix of both. actually if you do more readings, BLW is a practice of leading baby to self-feed by giving them chances to explore, feel the texture in terms of sensory, train his motor skills in palmer, pincer, then eventually to eat with cutleries, and of course the tastes of food. There's no such restrictions of NOT ALLOWING PURÉE as Puree is also a texture of food. Ideally, it will be ideal to serve baby with mixture of both solid finger food + puree, especially when you first introduced baby to solids. Babies vary from each other. Some babies can accept the finger food and self feeding in a short while, whereas some babies are just not ready for finger food. We don't force baby, but try to encourage baby. you certainly do not want to leave an unpleasant meal experience with baby, same to mother. Afterall, the main objective of weaning to solids to introduce baby with foods at the beginning, they still rely on milk as the main source of diet. Need not be worry or overstress yourself for baby who does not eat well at the beginning. Be open, realistic and optimistic in weaning. A happy mother will result in a happy eating baby :)