if you read it again, the quote of mine that you've lifted from six months ago said 'spooning' not spoons. my position is completely consistent. spooning, ie, trying to give the baby food when it doesn't want it, which, although it wouldn't have been possible with my baby At All, is something that i have seen Some Of my friends do.
i have seen it with my own eyes, clever, cool, informed women employing distraction techniques because they know the amount their baby 'needs' to eat. it's the sort of thing that's in many a weaning book, great big charts saying that babies should be eating 2-3 tbsp of this puree or that, so people not unreasonably feel a burden of responsibility to 'get' that amount into their children. it's utterly fair enough, it's what the books say, but it is one area where BLW and trad weaning completely parts ways.
this is clearly the 'implication' that soupy finds so offensive, although i don't make it. even as the mother of a PFB i think it would have gone against my instinct to employ distraction techniques to feed dd purees, not to mention the fact that i very much doubt she'd have played along.
so i'm in no sense saying that every person who feeds their child with a spoon is shovelling in food with no regard for the baby?s appetite.
there is NO clear causal line being drawn between parental over-feeding and spoon-feeding, but you'd have to admit that it's possible. It?s not possible with BLW because you remove yourself from the process so it can never be an issue. that, i think, is attractive.
given that there's no real developmental reason for eating runny foods when solid food will do just as well, then you don't need spoons at all for BLW. i never used them because DD didn't have yoghurt, she ate the veg and beans out of soup and she ate porridge pancakes, so we never needed to.
if, however, you want to give your child runny food, it would be ludicrous to be so dogmatic as to not do so using a spoon, particularly when there are no 'rules' anyway.
but if you're going to and doing BLW then try to do it with a 'no spooning' head on, rather than a 'i'm using a spoon to feed my child because i do not trust him to eat as much as i think he should' head on. Which is what I said, I think.
to give you an example, when i asked the parents who use my blog for their views on spoons, most said they used them for runny stuff but that they either loaded the spoons up and the baby grabbed them or that they held the spoon in such a way that the baby bobbed forward for the food, indicating that they were more than willing to eat. this may of course be what people who use purees do for the most part but since we're not doing that kind of weaning we don't really have to care about what other people are doing, do we?
and i think the reason that i assume you are making a snidey joke is because if you were saying 'i don't understand, i thought the whole point was about not using spoons?' then a. you could do so without the and b. we've already discussed the issue of spoons and spooning at great length so i rather assumed that you did understand. if you really didn't then i am more than happy to apologise.