BLWers, tell me how you progressed to cutlery/bowls please!

[naturelover]

DD is 14 months, still breastfed, has been BLW since the age of 6 months. It's been going well, but the only thing I've given her off a spoon is yoghurt, and she's gone off that at the moment.

What age did you give your LO a bowl of their own and spoons to feed themselves more runny food, eg soup or cereal?

Also can you recommend any bowls that maybe stick to the high chair tray.

Another question, if your LO was unwilling to try something new, how many times do you offer it before you decide they just won't eat it? And what if they refuse to even taste it?

Any tips welcome!

We tried bowls and spoons at quite an early age to get her used to them. Yoghurts I still mostly spoon feed (DD is 16mo) but if I am feeling wild and carefree I let her do it herself! As for soup I would give her a spoon but also bread to dip into it.

Cereal I don't give DD very often (I find toast on a mat on the floor a much easier brekkie) but when I do I giver her shredded wheat bitesize or weetabix which completely soak up the milk.

We have also progressed to taking her tray off the highchair and letting her sit at the table in the chair with us (this does mean she has got in to the habit of kicking her chair back ) and we either give her a plate or put her food on a mat. She does tip the plate up sometimes but we then just take it off her. I'm not sure any of the sticking bowls are a match for a tenacious toddler!

I would give her a spoon and let her have a go, it's the only way she'll learn. The only thing is you might find a spoon is distracting and she doesn't eat as much, so maybe offer her a spoon half way through. DD is getting pretty proficient with cutlery, but sometimes we have to take it off her as she concentrates to much on getting food on it and not enough on eating!