I think you can be flexible at this stage (up to 12mo) in terms of offering milk or solids first

You also need to see what times your child is hungriest for solids - is it at breakfast, lunch or dinner?
DS gets half his morning milk first thing (mainly to get the probiotic drops into him

) then he gets his breakfast solids, then the other half of his milk. Lunchtime it's solids first, then milk, dinnertime it's just solids then he gets his bedtime bottle.
He's having to get this much formula still as he's MPI so I can't give him any yoghurt / cheese / cow's milk in cooking yet.
His solids intake is slowly increasing now, so I'm not worried that he'll get there eventually, it might just take a little longer than 'average'

The other day I was running late with him so he had his lunchtime milk before his solids, and it didn't make any difference to what he ate!
So by all means try offering solids first for one meal, see how you go, and then you can increase it. DS held out for milk at first and didn't eat much, but he got there in the end
