HELP! DS on spoon strike

So it's been a bad couple of days...

DS will no longer accept spooned food from me or DF. He's always been tricky, though we always had a couple of tricks up our sleeves to get him started, but now he is adamant about no spoon. And we're not forcing him, no matter how frustrating. And it is frustrating, I could cry.

So he's living off cruskits, crackers, grapes and formula. I offer him heaps more finger foods which usually get chucked off the high tray (replaced covertly) and chucked again.
Consequently he's having broken sleep because he is hungry.

Yes, he is teething but this spoon aversion is not related, IMO.

Any tips at all please? (Oops will cross post in appropriate thread too)

Edited by JessDub

Issy did the same thing at that age .. only babies eat off a spoon (according to her brain)

We just gave her food and she got the food to her mouth somehow we tried to make it finger friendly, but the hand makes a pretty good scoop lol

With yoghurt and stuff we just gave her a spoon and let her have a go (pretty messy though)

E tried hard but never got much in ...but he had to(and still does) have a spoon in his hand if you are trying to help with your spoon or else:)

One of our tricks was the two spoons but he won't have a bar of it now.

Gave him a plate of yoghurt with spoon in it at lunchtime and he tried to feed himself without any success. Though it looked like he was happy. I was allowed to put some food on the spoon with him holding it and he would guide the spoon to his mouth - but that was only a couple of teaspoons worth. He did eat his crackers and grapes too.



Edited by JessDub

My girl went through a stage of not wanting to eat with a spoon (or at all some days), & I found feeding her with my fingers instead (mushy but washable...) would work sometimes to get food into her. Now she's okay using a spoon sometimes, just lets me know when shes not interested! Although I found she eats better if: 1. shes eating with others, and 2. she's got something to play with (milk bottle cap, a spoonful of food to smear around the tray, etc - when she's entertained she'll just open her mouth on autopilot & eat what I put in it).