Does your baby want table food?

Greyson has absolutely no interest in our food. I mean, he'll look at us eat and I can see him registering that fact, but he doesn't want food. He's also the kind of baby who doesn't take (or need) a pacifier, he doesn't really chew on anything, has just started sucking on his hands now and then, and never spits up. The only thing Grey wants is the booby.

I've been thinking about when he might start solid food. With all of my other babies, we started feeding them baby food around 4-6 months, but this time I'm thinking I may let Greyson choose when he's ready to eat and possibly forgo baby food altogether. I really want him to have a strong digestive system.

Here's a thread in the Life with a babe forum:
Did you delay solids?

I'm a big-time delayer, too. It's so much better for their immunity and digestion if you can hold them off as long as possible. I usually start slowly introducing small tastes of food around 8 mos, but they don't actually eat for nutrition til 10-12 mos, and the bulk of their diet is still bm til after that.

Their very own plate with UTN stuffed veggies is a fun way to make them feel part of the dinner table gang w/o introducing all the risks of early solids.

Moira stares, but it's no different from the way she stares at the ceiling fan. She hasn't grabbed at food yet. She does like to grab our hands and drag them into her mouth though. She almost gave me a hickey on my arm today Oh, and she tasted the cat too.

I'm not really hardcore about delaying solids after 6 months but I definitely have no plans to push them either. We gave Amalie some pureed veggies right around that 6 month mark, but she was our first and we were a bit eager. They weren't very well-received. We have some great pictures of the faces she made though

Lucy watches me eat, but it's simply just to be watching and absorbing everything around her.

With Madeline we didn't delay foods and she had rice cereal right at four months. Ugh. That was a terrible experience. I mean, nothing bad happened, but it was ... frustrating I suppose. I thought she would just 'know' what to do when I put the spoon in her mouth (being a first-time parent and not having really looked into anything, I simply did what I was 'supposed' to do) and she just spit everything back out. Every. single. time. So I thought I was doing something wrong. ... of course we finally worked out the kinks and she seems fine now

With Katherine we delayed foods until six months and it made a WORLD of difference. By that point she seemed genuinely interested in food and simply loved it. I just mushed up most things -- never bought a canned baby food! With some relatives though, there was the push to give her foods earlier because she needed them, wanted them, etc.

And now, this time around... Lucy's a week and a bit from being four months old. I figure we won't even *think* about solids until she's six months old. And even then... we'll just see where she's at! At least now the relatives don't seem to be caring so much about whether I'm thinking about giving her solid foods yet. They all seem perfectly content with her just getting yummy boobie milk! (good thing, because Katherine tells people that's all Lucy gets )