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When did your baby self-feed with a spoon?

11 months, will grab the spoon if I load it, but mostly chaos. When did yours actually feed themselves with a spoon properly?

4 Replies

warm-finch 2/27/2026

Yogurt and oatmeal are great early self-feeding foods - stays on the spoon.

giggly-dove 2/27/2026

ezpz spoons are designed for this. Wider grip.

bright-tamarin 2/28/2026

Loaded spoon was the trick - we did this from 7mo. Properly self-loading around 16mo.

gentle-goldfinch 3/4/2026

Mine could spoon at 14mo. Friend's didn't until 2. Massive range.