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Baby Led Weaning

Description: Introduce solid foods that allows the baby to feed Him/herself – there’s no spoon feeding and no purees.

Newest Review: ... wracking to believe that they can pick and eat what they need to eat and will get enough! - requires extended milk feeding which may not suit all people Overall though, I'd recommend it - it's worked fantastically for us. Here's our story so far. In the early days I only offered Bryn one type of fruit or veg at a time, always in sticks. The book hadn't been released and I didn't know he ... more

... should be having a variety with every meal. Similarly I was giving him all stick shapes as I didn't know he should be having a variety of textures to learn how to eat them. You can start to offer food whenever you eat. To start with Bryn had something...more

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Baby Led Weaning: Get them to feed themselves right from the start (2058 words)
by - written on 14/11/08 (Very useful, 588 readings)
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I thought I'd write what we are doing and why with weaning because though it's becoming more popular, it is still far from the norm. We are following most of the principles of baby-led weaning. This means no purees, we started by putting sticks (easy to grab shapes) of food infront of my son and watching him pick them up and learn to eat them. Advice says to start at 6 months, as is common with all official weaning advice nowadays. We started at 5 months, which really isn't advised but Bryn was frequently swiping and eating my food, and I wanted to make sure he avoided common allergens like gluten, dairy etc until he passed 6 months. So far I have seen a ... Read the complete review

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