Teething baby doesn't want spoon - BLW??

[sharond101]

DS 9mo was loving his food. I chose to spoon feed him for various reasons, mainly because he was loving everything I fed him by spoon and not so keen trying to eat by himself, and also because I cannot bear the mess involved in BLW. However since last week he has had a bad cold and his third tooth is coming through. He has been refusing his usual porridge, soup, stews etc and taking less milk too. Yesterday and today he has eaten things I have given him that he can eat by himself, toast fingers, banana muffin, crackers and breadstix. When I offer him anything on a spoon he bobs his head around and refuses. Do you think this will pass or is he trying to lead the weaning? What else shall I give him as he cannot keep eating so much carbohydrate and nothing else. He will not seem to take anything slippery (gives in immediately), and didn't want cucumber, red pepper or raisins I tried today. Is there a way to overcome the slippery texture of some foods?

With the textures, you just need to keep trying. It can take up to 15 goes (not all in the same meal though ) to get a child to accept a new food. Have you tried letting him do the spooning himself?
Sounds as though he might be trying to lead the weaning. Small child here did a similar refusal type thing until the spoon was handed over, and then the refusing stopped (but the splashes were worse - ended up with one spoon for them, and one for me to wipe the dribbles...).
In terms of non-carbohydrates - have you tried him on buttered mashed potato, or maybe banana (not mashed, but in enough of a piece for him to grip).

My 8m DD did exactly the same thing - we do a mix of spoon feeding and finger foods. Then she just stopped accepting the spoon, exactly the same as your DS, head bobbing around, and ending up quite upset (except for baby porridge & yoghurt, that was acceptable ). So I just stuck to the finger foods and it stayed like that for 2 weeks while she went through an awful period of teething. I had kept offering food on a spoon and one day she just accepted it again and that was that, normal service resumed! A week or so later a little tooth appeared

Yes normal service has resumed here too.