So I started weaning my little girl about 3 weeks ago. She's LOVING food - everything I give her gets wolfed down. The only thing she's not been massively keen on is mango, but not sure if it's been too cold as it's come straight from the fridge.
Before we started weaning, we'd sit her in her highchair and let her play with a spoon which she enjoyed, and the spoon constantly went straight in her mouth. For the first week after starting to introduce food she was happy to hold the spoon with food on it, would shove it in her mouth and happily sit there slurping puree off it. However, in the last week she's become really reluctant (to the point of getting upset) to hold the spoon. When I load it with food she's leaning towards it with her mouth wide open, desperately trying to get to the food, but if I try and get her to hold it she gets really upset and pulls her hands away. I've tried giving her a clean spoon to play with while I feed her, but this only works about half of the time. She also now won't hold finger food (like mango, avocado etc) but will happily eat/suck avocado if I hold it for her. I just can't for the life of me work out what the issue is. Definitely not a food aversion as she's wolfed down whatever I've tried her on. Only thing I can think is that she doesn't like the texture/mess on her hands which is why she's stopped wanting to hold fruit etc, but still can't work out why that would stop her wanting to hold a spoon?! Literally everything else we give her to hold goes straight in her mouth (toys, bibs etc).
Utterly confused/baffled FTM here!!