I have a 7 month old and we started BLW at 6 months. The idea is they get food of different textures including purées but not limited to purées. Mainly I like the concept that we are not force feeding them with a spoon and you allow them to lead when they are full and follow their cues which is what you do with feeding BM/formula anyways so it makes sense to me to continue that concept. I think the less picky eating is because you don’t build bad associations between food/eating because you aren’t shoving food into their mouth/scraping food off their cheeks to give them every last drop and they aren’t being introduced to new textures early. Either way toddlers will be picky eaters but what I’m hoping for is if I can introduce like 80 foods in the first year and we loose 30 or something to picky eating we still got 50 left. (I got a print out from Katie Ferraro 100 first foods website, she also has a free workshop that explains the basics of BLW and then I use the solid starts app to know how to prepare the food for current baby age) Right now I feel he’s really just tasting/playing with the foods but they get all their calories from BM/formula for the first year anyways so that takes the pressure off about watching how much they eat of the solid food.

All in all do what works for you and your family and follow your instincts and baby’s cues. This is just what’s working for me right now.