I hadn't heard of BLW when I started to wean Amelia. But now I've read up on it I have found that I have done a lot of it anyway, just not the "pure" version. I started weaning a little over 18 weeks and started off giving a small amount of baby rice and progressed onto vegetable puree's. From 5 months I have allowed her to have finger foods such as broccoli and cauliflower spears, cooked carrot, courgette, sweet potato sticks. When I moved her on to meats, cheese and fish I have allowed her to use her fingers to feed herself and also given her a spoon. I find that when I spoon feed her (which I do for at least 1 meal a day as she's a bit of a slim jim) I have to give her a bread stick, rice cake, other piece of finger food or her own bowl and spoon.
She's a very happy little eater and will try and eat everything I have given her, even if she is not particularly keen (as with salmon). She does however love to get herself in a right ole mess, which luckily I find the cutest thing ever!