We starting with things like cutlets, steamed broccoli and carrot sticks, roasted pumpkin and sweet potato, beans. We never fed DD using a spoon, we would load the spoon up for her but she would always out it to her mouth. If it was ceral like weetbix, she could opt to use her hands or a spoon. Often she would just pick up a half mushy weetbix and munch away on it. I remember reading somewhere (I think) that if they cant coordinate it to their own mouth then they arent ready to ingest it iykwim so we just ran with that philosophy.
I kind of did half and half tonight, I put some pieces of boiled zucchini on his little table and let him squish it and just move it all over the place. He loved it! He didn't eat any though but that's ok. I also had some sweet potato and apple I had cooked and offered him some spoonfuls of those which he didn't really want but I had given him a BF not long before. I think I might do it gradually, keep offering spoonfuls of veg but also give him some pieces to play with until he realises he can eat them, then I'll just do it that way.
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