Anyone interested in the input of a researcher on this topic can search the
archives for solids or solid foods or growth where dettwyler appears in
sender (done according to archive search instructions, that is).  I have
posted quite a bit about this topic since LactNet began.  We need to
remember that some new parents are offering solid foods in the following way
-- no one else is eating, it isn't mealtime, mom puts baby in high chair and
tries to spoon-feed yucky or blah tasting commercial baby food purees.  Baby
objects.  When it is meal-time, baby is in the other room, or in the swing,
or in the bouncy chair -- baby is not present at the table when anyone else
is eating.  Baby is not offered finger foods that s/he can pick up and
explore and taste and decide whether or not to eat.  One needs to know much
more than just "baby doesn't like to eat" before one can decide if there is
a "problem" or not.

Kathy Dettwyler