Name: Baby-led Weaning
ISBN: 9780091923808

Gill Rapley

Tracey Murkett

This authoritative guide to baby-led weaning — the latest buzz in parenting circles — explains the benefits of infant self-feeding in terms of nutritional health, eating habits, motor development, independence and confidence. Baby-led Weaning is written by the UK's leading authority on the subject.

Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food

Baby-led Weaning

Sarah Ryan

A complete overview of baby led weaning. The concept and execution of this style of introducing solid was well explained - in fact overly so, with the book becoming extremely repetitive. The book could probably be a third of its current size and still convey all the same information.

Joana Ribeiro

This book is perfect for parents that want a more modern approach on how to wean your baby. Totally recommend. My advice is reading when your kid is 4 months to get ready to wean around 6months and not before that. 6 months exclusive milk for babies is what WHO recommends these days. Have fun!

Magdalene Lim

A good introduction to the thinking behind baby led weaning, tips and anecdotes from various families. They even cover topics like “Should I get organic food?” Which is a question that would never have crossed my mind because of the price but if the baby is putting the entire thing, skin and all, into his mouth, you sure hope it’s clean. 

I feel more prepared for starting my baby led weaning journey in a few months but who knows what things would be like when it comes to actual vs theory aka what I’ve learnt from this book.

In essence, the philosophy is as the name suggests - to let baby LEAD his/her eating experience. Let him pick up the food, when to stop eating, etc. It helps to not start too soon - 4 months? As baby will have a more enjoyable experience if they have the skills to start eating. By picking the food up themselves, they can feel what it’s like, know what it is, and that reduces their risk of choking. 

I’m so not looking forward to the mess - food thrown on the floor, fear of baby choking, and not knowing whether baby has eaten enough. But I am looking forward to baby learning how to eat by himself AND being able to eat whatever baby’s parents. If one needs a reason to overhaul one’s diet and eat clean, this is it! No salt, no sugar! 

So should you buy organic? Not necessarily. 😁

Baby-led Weaning Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food

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