What to do when one is more ready for solids than the other?

My baby girls are just over 6 months old. We just tried solids about two weeks ago. Twin A, Elena, who has always been the more robust of the two is adapting nicely. Twin B, Maya, has been consistantly a couple of weeks behind her sister developmentally, seems less ready to do solids. She still has a pretty strong tongue reflex and just doesn't seem all that interested.

Should I stop trying to give Maya solids for awhile, while still giving them to her sister? I feel like I'm excluding Maya if I don't offer them to her - and frankly, she gets mad watching her sister eat (though I'm sure Maya would just prefer a bottle to whatever her sister is trying at the moment). I also feel like I should continue to expose her to them, because she's also pretty stubborn and doesn't like new things in general, so part of her reluctance to solids might be some of that too.

WDYT?

Also, about solids in general, I can't remember when and how much I should be offering to them and how to ramp up to "meals" over "tastings". Right now, I've been offering about a 1/2 jar of fruit and an equivalent of oatmeal with formula split between the two girls one time each day @ dinner time. I think I could try to have the sitter offer another solids meal around lunch? Ideas?

Thanks!

 

I could go either way. I might just stop all together for 2 weeks and then try again since they are just 6 months. I might just put them both in highchairs and feed Elena and let Maya just hang out and not force it. Or I might just put Elena in the highchair and feed her when I had a quick few minutes. Any of that works to me.

As for how much, I think 1/2 jar once or twice a day is fine as long as its not impacting their fluid intake.

 

I would put them both in their highchairs and offer it to both of them, but if Maya isn't interested I wouldn't force it or worry. I'd just keep putting her in the chair and offering, to get her used to the routine if nothing else. At 6 months old I think 1/2 of a jar each is probably a good amount. I rarely got my girls to each take a whole jar.

 

We are offering solids now as well (so far just rice cereal) as my pedi said that they were ready, and we thought why not just do cereal til six months if only to let them practice and get the idea of "eating". My daughter was much less interested at first, and spit out almost everything. We debated whether or not to continue offering it to her, but decided that since we are feeding my son (he likes it!) then we should keep letting her try and she would eventually get the hang of it. And she did! Took a little bit and today she gulped down her whole bowl of cereal faster than her brother, and with none of it even dripped onto her bib!

I say stick with it and give her a chance to learn and catch up.