Help - Introducing a Spoon

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DS is nearly 1 and we started weaning at 5 months on the advice from our HV. She advised that he needed to progress to solids early as he was guzzling so much milk. Because he was only 5 months she advised against baby led weaning and to start him on purées.

He has always been a good eater and is now on 3 good meals a day of weetabix and fruit for breakfast then lunch and dinner are meals I've prepared followed by fruit or yoghurt.

The trouble is that as we started off with purées, he's always been spoon fed. We give him finger food such as chopped veg, toast, crackers etc for his 'snack' at 230 that he eats fine but he shows absolutely no interest in taking the spoon for his meals.

I've tried giving him a preloaded spoon that ends up just being mashed in between his hands and then thrown, it goes no where near his mouth. I've tried giving him an empty spoon just to hold but that just ends up on the floor with again no attempt to put it in his mouth.

Is there anything else I can try to encourage him to start to use a spoon?

Thank you in advance!

Try the Munchkin scooper spoon and introduce it as a toy / teether first then start bringing it at meals. You may need to eat with it first though to encourage him to try.

I wouldn’t worry to much, this is just what they do at this age. DS is 16 months and still sees the spoon as a toy to be thrown! Some mouthfuls go in but it’s more fun to bash it and throw it! Eating at this age is all about seeing/feeling food as well as eating and normal to squash between fingers etc. He will get there eventually!

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Do you sit round a table and eat together? If he watches you using your cutlery he'll emulate you.

I'm trying to teach my DD about the spoon! I give her a spoon to play with while I feed her with another spoon - she does put the (empty) play spoon in her mouth or puts it in the food to stir around... one day she might even do both! She does like feeding me with her spoon, so she is copying what I do . Don't worry, I don't know any adult who doesn't know how to use a spoon, so I'm sure our babies will get there!