Can I mix spoon-feeding and BLW? For example, on some days I'll spoon feed my baby, and in some days, I'll do BLW?

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the more opportunities baby is given to self-feed, the more he'll be able to practice this skill. spoon is not evil but the adult intervention this entails means it's not completely in line with blw traditional weaning with spoon is not bad at all. the problem is that textures, finger food and self-feeding is not introduced early enough and both babies and caregivers over rely on spoon and you'd see adults chasing children around with a spoon. even with traditional weaning, textures/ porridge should be more chunky quickly and finger food should be introduced around 9mos

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