Marsha - don't shoot me for this - but have you thought of trying something on a spoon?? Not pureed baby dinner that I know you HATE - but something we all eat off a spoon anyway - like ready brek or something. I want to suggest yoghurt but I don't know how far you are in to dairy yet.
He might just have some textural issues and prefer to try this way. You could move very quickly to him feeding himself a preloaded spoon if he liked it.
I've partially BLW'd 2 children - it took Jacob until he was over 12 mths to eat anything other than toast and rice crackers. He wouldn't even pick up anything wet or slimy until he was closer to 15 mths - so no fruit, no veggies. He would chew on meat earlier than that. I think he started with fish fingers at about 12 mths as well. But that obviously meant night feeds (and he was FF by then as well). Megan is totally different - she will pick up anything and try to eat it! Anything at all - small, slimy, strange, whatever, in it goes.
That is partly why I have offered 2 different types of feeding to both of them - although I have never been one to puree a cottage pie - yuck! As you know Jacob never took to spoon feeding either - but he did have a little bit. Mainly fruit purees - but the feeding team said even little tastes of things are good to help develop their taste buds and increase their curiosity about the whole process. But I guess J is getting enough from BLW to do that.
Although I guess the issue might actually be the distracted BFing rather than the solids.
It gets really tough at this age when they are still waking a lot at night. I know!!
