When should you stop spoon feeding baby and when should a baby be able to use a spoon?

I don't know what the official guidance is but we also do a mix. For the last month or so she's done the spoon herself if you load it up first and I'd probably say in the last week or so she's been very keen to get it from the bowl herself.

She's still very much learning how to do this though and rarely actually gets food on the spoon.

Also she's not feeding herself from the spoon 100% of the time - usually we're feeding her about half the time depending on what mood she's in.

Quite similar to Jo above, baby learning to self feed, does very well with pre-loaded spoon but currently trying to load the spoon himself.

He is currently not allowing us to feed him anymore, and even refuses pre-loaded spoons lately. He will try to load the spoon himself and at some point just tuck in with his hands 😂 you can imagine the mess when it’s one of those supermarket ready packets, that are very saucy with bits in 🫣

We do a mixture too. Our girl is still at the stage where she takes the preloaded spoon off me and launches the food across the room 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣 more practice required I think! We do still spoonfeed her a fair amount though, usually around 1 full meal per day, like you say to make sure she’s eating enough!