7.5 month old feeding

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My 7.5 month old loves food. Each meal we will offer her a finger food version, and then after, a bowl and we will offer it on a spoon and give her a spoon which she plays with. However, she will never pick up the food and put it in her mouth. Whether it's finger food on her tray, or food in a bowl, she will play with it, squish it, throw it etc, but never put it in her mouth. If we put the finger food to her mouth she will bite some off and eat it, but she won't do it herself. Then when we stop, she gets frustrated.
She has really good control of putting objects to her mouth, however after discussing it with DH, we've come to realise that she hasn't even put toys to her mouth for a few weeks now.
It's just worrying me as our health visitor said she should be self feeding by 9/10 months. However, I know babies don't follow the 'rule book' they set, so I'm just looking for other parents' experiences. Thank you!

I have a baby the same age who also won't put food in her mouth. Happily takes food from a spoon or nibbles finger foods we hold to her mouth but won't do it herself. She does put other objects in her mouth but mostly soft things like fabric or teddies, textures that aren't really replicated by finger foods.

I'm not worried. My older one took forever to get the hang of self-feeding too but she got there.

@CoalCraft thank you for your reply 😊
My daughter used to put everything in her mouth, but the last 3/4 weeks she seems to have stopped. She'll put her bib in her mouth and chew on her fingers but that's all.

It's all completely new to me so I'm not sure what's normal really

Your baby is only 7.5 months - this is absolutely nothing to worry about. Plenty of one year olds aren't able to use spoon independantly yet. She will get there with practice.