DS is just turned 6 months. At 24 weeks I started trying to give him some puree, and couldn't get the spoon anywhere near his mouth - he uses both hands to push it away and doesn't open his mouth. I tried giving him two spoons of his own to hold and he drops them instantly when he sees my spoon coming. I figured that meant he wasn't ready and tried again the following week, with same result - except I noticed that the bit he got on his face he licked off, and he was also sticking his puree-y (I let him stick his hands in the bowl) hands in his mouth. I also gave him a steamed carrot stick, which he put straight in his mouth then took straight out.
Tried again a couple of days ago (with fruit puree, in case he just hated carrot), same deal. Then yesterday DH gave him one of those Ella's kitchen carrot puff things, and he ate two of them and I think would have had more if we'd given them to him. This morning we tried him on baked apple slices and it was a bit of a disaster, but I think that was my fault - he was trying hard to get them to his mouth but they were so soft that they just fell apart. I also tried to give him some yoghurt and again he wanted none of me feeding him, but would happily put a yoghurt covered spoon in his own mouth.
Is he not ready for solids, and I should give it another rest and try again? Or is it the spoon, and do we just have to do BLW, even though it's not what I wanted to do? No one else I know has had this problem (and looked at me like I had two heads when I asked if they had!) and all the online advice I can find is about older babies suddenly stopping to eat from a spoon, not about babies who won't do it from the off! Am I doing it wrong?!