Katy - hilarious!
Rach - agree with becky, she'll start eating loads before you know it, there's no rush anyway. As for the traditional weaners, well take a look in 6 months or a year and see where they are up to. Some of the LOs at groups we go to are 14 or 18 months old, lump refusal, puree addiction, jar addiction, mums who won't let them try to self feed because it's too messy (of course it's still messy they haven't had a chance to learn how to do it!). The number of stories I've heard about difficulties with traditional weaning I am so glad we went with BLW.
Becky - how I WISH solids reduced the number of poos DS does! Prior to solids he did one, possibly two per day, now we have 3 or 4 before 9am!!!!!!!!!!! 5 to 7 poos per day is normal for him now. Sounds like Sophia has take to solids brilliantly, just like DS, he never played with food just ate it. These days (almost 11 months) once he is full he might play a little, to see what happens if he squishes something but he would never do that before. Some of them haven't read that 'food before one is just for fun' and want the food in their bellies asap lol