We started weaning him at 6MO. Tried a mixture of baby led weaning and spoon feeding. He has took to being spoon fed just fine.
But other times when we've put food on his tray, he just plays with the food. I didn't think this was much of a problem at first, just part of his experimenting and learning. But it's been two months now!
Things we've put on the tray are brocolli, boiled sweet potato/white potatoes (in chunky finger slices) cucumber sticks, boiled carrot sticks, watermelon sticks, rice cakes. At very best, he has self fed for a little while after us bringing the food to his mouth, but it doesn't last long and this has only happened on 2-3 occasions since we began weaning.
DS1 was not like this, he got stucking with feeding himself straight away, so DS2's lack of interest is strange to me (and tiring - would be very good if I could eat while he does!)
He puts toys other things in his mouth sometimes, although not very much, but way more than actual food!
Has anyone else had this when weaning? What did you do to encourage DC to self feed?
We all sit around the table to eat and show him how it's done but to no avail. I think a problem is introducing the spoon feeding too soon. He plays with his finger foods then eventually gets fed up and cries until he is spoon fed.
I try to keep breakfast at finger food only but he then just doesn't eat.