Anyone successfully got baby to accept spoon??

[Alicia870]

My daughter mostly feeds herself with finger foods (she's almost one) as she's just been so independent and wants to do it all herself! She screams and turns her head when I offer to feed her anything from a spoon. It's just that I feel we are getting a bit limited with the foods she is eating because they have to be able to be picked up. I want her to be eating what we eat as a family, but I find I'm always having to change her meal so it suits her being able to pick it up in her hands. So mash, rice, soup, cereal, etc is off the charts.

I've tried giving her the spoon but she just chews it and won't even try to scoop food in it. I also would just love a little less mess as I'm finding it super exhausting cleaning up after her meals and so much of it getting thrown around.Any ideas?

My LO is nearly 12 months and just mastered the spoon, I still would no It let her near the bowl! We did BLW and once her pincer grip got better she was able to eat spag bol and most of our family meals by herself so I never felt like she missed out.
She also only likes metal spoons...
Have you tried letting her hold her own spoon and you feed her with a different one?

I used to just use a few spoons, scoop for baby and put it on the high chair so I could have a few in rotation.

Then over time I gently helped with scooping- guiding their hand to show them what to do then giving them a go.

I've tried giving her her own spoon but she will just chew the end of it. If there's food on it she scrapes it off with her hands! She then keeps the empty spoon in her mouth and if I try and feed her with a different one she throws a hissy fit.
Honestly she has such an aversion to cutlery ! I just feel like good choices are getting more and more limited and really want her to start eating some spoon feeds

Mash can be eaten with hands. Trust me, DS 2.2 is sure of that (he can and does use cutlery but reverts to hands when he wants to eat quickly, he's always had what we had and got on with it somehow- peas are a good fine motor skill development for example)

Just let her eat, give her what you have, leave her a spoon.

Yeah but only once she started nursery and was able to copy what the other kids were doing! They also say eating your meals together as a family helps as they copy what you do then

Cereal - you can give dry cereal, Cheerios for example are perfect finger food. I do Weetabix and porridge, with a lot less liquid so they are easier to eat with fingers.

Soup - I've served thin soups (no lumps) like tomato in a sippy cup, with chunkier soups, leave the chunks big enough to finger feed. Toasted bagel is good for them to dunk into soup, it doesn't disintegrate as quickly as toast.

Babies usually work out a way to eat mash with their fingers. Rice is a bit trickier, but if you are serving it with curry or similar the sauce helps to stick it together.

The child I'm looking after at the moment was a spoon refuser until she was about 14 months, then she just seemed to get the hang of it overnight.