i know she didn't crash a thread. a better parallel, then, would be me starting a thread in P-N saying that you're all thinking too much and too involved with your children. would go down as well as a fart in a spacesuit i think.
i realise this is splitting hairs about the soup thing, right, but bear with me. LOADS of people who do BLW do begin to use spoons, either by loading them up and handing them over, or just doing a bit of spoon feeding on the odd occasion. of COURSE they call themselves BLWers, it would be ludicrous to think that people are 'struck off', lol, just for using a spoon.
i suppose the only reason i say that the two are mutually exclusive is when people say 'you can do a mix of BLW and purees'. because it wouldn't be BLW, iyswim, if you've sat and pureed carrots and are feeding that with a view to keeping an eye on how much carrot is being eaten etc. cos the whole point of BLW is not to keep an eye on that stuff.
a 'mix', from the very beginning, is a 'mix' of finger foods and purees. that, by the way, is what the government recommends in any case.
whereas if you start BLW, let the babies really get into squidging their steamed carrot and broccoli, and getting their wee hands mucky with spag bol, and THEN the family has soup one day, well, of course most people will just pick up a spoon and let the baby have some that way.
do you see what i mean? it's more the primary motivation, than the actual spoon.
i fear i am sounding like a NOB.