LO feeding self

klgrh6 · May 2013

We feed DD pureed fruits, veggies, and oatmeal everyday. Along with occassional finger food snacks she can feed herself such as puffs, cheerios, other gerber snacks. We also try to give her table food from time to time depending on what I cooked for the night but I feel like we are really behind on introducing foods to her. She does really well at putting food in her mouth herself.

But my questions is: does LO feed themselve with a spoon or soft fork? When should it be introduced or when to start teaching how to use one?

MarisaKathleen · May 2013

S2BHA is the only one of our babies I've seen actually use a utensil the correct way. We give one to N from time to time and she bangs it on the high chair, then puts the wrong end in her mouth. I have no idea when you start introducing utensils more regularly.

gingerfamily · May 2013

Not until 18 months or so should they be able to do this.

twinning12 · May 2013

I give my boys a spoon at each feeding, but they mostly just play with it. They use their hands to actually feed themselves.

isacdimi10 · May 2013

Heh S3 just hits himself with the spoon. So we don't often give it to him.

My (almost) 2yr old is still pretty dangerous with a spoon/fork so he just gets spoons.

We start working on it really around 18mo.

Pokedot · May 2013

I give B a spoon to "play" with and explore whenever he eats. He loves to just chew on it upside down of course. Everything goes upside down with that kid I swear. He uses his fingers for cheerios, puffs and table food. Otherwise we use the spoon to feed him. He's more interest in his highchair toy right now anyways. Oh and putting several cheerios in his mouth all at once!

INmommy871278 · May 2013

LoveLossHopeRepeat:
Liam gags himself on any utensil, so I'm holding off on giving them to him for awhile. You can start anytime it's not going to hurt them. Unless it's my kid.nbsp;

This! DS gags himself too so I'm holding off until 12 months to start trying.

AlinnJo · May 2013

I hand my LO the spoon and she does put it in her mouth and feed herself. She does drop it or fling the food from it from time to time, but she's pretty good at using it. I definitely have to put the food on it for her. There is no way she's doing that by herself.

KellersPrag · May 2013

MarisaKathleen:
S2BHA is the only one of our babies I've seen actually use a utensil the correct way. We give one to N from time to time and she bangs it on the high chair, then puts the wrong end in her mouth. I have no idea when you start introducing utensils more regularly.

Charlotte uses a spoon. She dips it into whatever she is eating, and then puts it in her mouth. Sure, she makes a mess in the process, but she knows how it works.

Bookelly · May 2013

AlinnJo:
I hand my LO the spoon and she does put it in her mouth and feed herself. She does drop it or fling the food from it from time to time, but she's pretty good at using it. I definitely have to put the food on it for her. There is no way she's doing that by herself.

This, exactly.

MomtobeNJ · May 2013

If I preload the spoon for her, DD will generally get 3 or 4 bites in her mouth. I do it just to let her practice, but I definitely wouldn't say she's "feeding herself." She spends way more time banging the spoon on her tray or waving it around like a baton. But it's a start!

hmp1 · May 2013

It isn't worth the mess to me. He plays with spoons all the time while I'm cooking but for actual food, I don't hand over a bowl and spoon.

crystaltastic · May 2013

I preload the spoon and put it on the tray for DS to pick up. He picks it up, puts it in his mouth and then sometimes puts it back on the tray to be re-filled. At least half of the time he throws it off the side of the tray once he eats the food off of it. I feel like we are about half way there.

linzeek44 · May 2013

E does well with a preloaded spoon. Right to his mouth to get the good stuff. I began giving him a spoon and bowl to explore when he was 5m and we weren't starting solids (didn't want him to be too bored at the table). Sometimes he dips it in the bowl or food on his tray and then gets it to his mouth, but that's pretty inconsistent.

I do give him a bowl and a spoon with food sometimes so that he can explore it, like oatmeal and applesauce. Usually he just holds the bowl up to his face and tries to suck the food in. haha.

klgrh6 · May 2013

Thanks ladies. I figured it would be a while from now before she would be able to considering when I hand it to her and she always puts the handle part in her mouth. I just didn't want to fall behind on that too.

Hyaline · May 2013

I let DD guide the spoon into her mouth with me holding it. If I give it to her to do with what she likes, she thinks flinging the food is more fun than eating it. So, yeah, I guess we're starting to "teach" but it's more just letting her do what she thinks is fun with the utensil at this point. Guiding it was her idea, not mine

MeatballEsq · May 2013

MomtobeNJ:
If I preload the spoon for her, DD will generally get 3 or 4 bites in her mouth. I do it just to let her practice, but I definitely wouldn't say she's "feeding herself." She spends way more time banging the spoon on her tray or waving it around like a baton. But it's a start!nbsp;

This. He is always grabbing the spoon from me so before he does I will semi load it up. Most of the time he gets it in his mouth.

Nita2603 · May 2013

My toddler has now at 18 months just figured out how to use spoon and fork and at 20 months, he still sometimes ditches both and eats with his hands. We didnt real start with utensils until about a year.

Stasi · May 2013

If we hand Kate the spoon in the correct way, she'll bring it to her mouth (either empty or pre-loaded with food), but there is no way that she would be able to dip it into anything....not because I don't think she could start learning now, but because bowl full of food = projectile to her.

She never throws her spoon, but for some reason a bowl with food in it needs to be dumped out and the empty bowl needs to be thrown far, far away.

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