There’s no standard recommendation when babies start using their feeding set, personally USSE baby feeding set recommend to start offering utensils right from the first meal. There really is no such thing as too soon!
There’s no standard recommendation when babies start using their feeding set, personally USSE baby feeding set recommend to start offering utensils right from the first meal. There really is no such thing as too soon! Even though they won’t know how to use it that early, if it starts showing up at mealtime right at the beginning of their starting solids journey, it allows them to make the association that utensils and food go together quite easily! It will also give them more exposure to utensils early on and more opportunities to practice…which we know will lead to a greater and sooner likelihood of success.
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Now, if you don’t do this, USSE can assure you…you are not behind, nor have you ruined your child’s opportunity to learn how to use utensils.
As I like to remind myself…I’m yet to meet an adult who hasn’t mastered the use of a utensil yet!
So if you’re not feeling like tackling this skill…then by all means don’t rush! But as with all things baby feeding set and development, since it’s a skill…skills take practice. And I personally like to exercise any skill early on and often so it becomes really fine tuned and both baby and parent can reap the benefits sooner. Utensil use allows for more options when eating meals, it fosters more independence, and potentially lets you enjoy generally less messy meals!
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