You can also do a combination of BLW and purees - we did. We would give my dd purees and then some pieces of whatever we were eating, as long as it was not an allergen or terribly salty/spicy. She loved it - was eating chunks of hamburger by 7 mos. She did like to fill up on spoon food until lately - now she *HAS* to hold her own spoon, so it's almost all finger food.