using fork and spoon?

RedZee · April 2012

Ok, this board is getting way too quiet. All you preggos stop talking about your symptoms on other boards and come back here!

Have you started giving your LO a fork or spoon to eat with on their own? We have done it a couple of times. It's so insanely messy that I haven't been doing it enough. She'll dip a spoon into yogurt and eat, but I don't know how much really gets into her. She'll hold a fork and then eat with her hands if it's something else. But, we've really only given her a fork or spoon (a toddler one) 4 or 5 times.

Also, there were a million varieties of forks and spoons at Buy Buy Baby. Anyone know what the differences are?

broccolitree · April 2012

yep. We've been doing tomato soup, yogurt, broccoli & cheese soup, soft-serve frozen yogurt... basically stuff she can just dip the spoon into and it'll cling, she doesn't have to scoop. If we leave the spoon out she'll eat salsa and peanut butter that way too, heh. We hand her a fork for spaghetti because she LOVES spaghetti but she's been getting frustrated since it's hard to shove a fistful of noodles into her mouth. She doesn't quite get it, but I think that skill is one that she'll only learn by repetition.

The differences between all the spoons and forks is handle size, shape, whatever have you. We're using the 'Take and Toss infant spoons we got forever ago and a few of the 'toddler' nubby-handled Gerber spoons... and she does better with the infant spoons, of course.

pixieprincss · April 2012

Yes, both. We did BLW and started DS with a spoon to play-eat with even before he started solids, so he's decent at it since we've never fed him with it, just allowed him to self-feed. He still has a hard time scooping up food with it and then keeping it on until it gets to his mouth, but quite a bit makes it. He likes to always have one or the other utensil even if he just holds it and uses the other hand for eating--LOL!

He is a bit better with a fork than a spoon--he loves stabbing things with the tines when the texture is right.

We have a few metal baby utensils, but we also just give him the normal ones (our set has a petite profile).

ffejsGirl · April 2012

Em uses both, not perfectly but she's getting it. She does best with stuff that clings: think applesause, yogurt, thick soup. She doesn't stab with her fork, she picks up the food with her fingers and puts it onto the tines, then eats off the fork

She uses the fork and spoon first then will toss them aside after she gets bored and finish everything with her hands.

Lovee+2 · April 2012

we have given a sppon and fork. DD with dip the spoon in yogurt but she is still learning so it really gets everywhere. I will put a piece of food on a toddler fork and she will eat it off but she is not so good with it by herself. She just holds it then uses her other hand to pick up food! hah!

freeatlast2014 · April 2012

It's sad to say but I'm not motivated to deal with the mess so I've only given him one or the other on less than a handful of occasions. My mom babysat yesterday and let him eat his mac and cheese with the fork and she said he did really well. Guess I need to step it up. We use the Gerber one with the short fat handle and metal tip.