Tip 1. Lunchtime is the best time of day for your baby’s first solid food meals, as she should be hungry, but not too tired to eat. Like I said I was struggling with weaning and was really anxious about it and in ways this book didn't help that, it spoke about all all the different vitamins babies need and what impact it can have on baby in the long term if they didn't get enough of them, this really triggered my anxiety and made me feel worse about weaning, I understand that listing the vitamins and how they can help with development and your babies growth/wellbeing/health is important but to list the things that can happen when baby doesn't have these seemed to me to be a bit scare mongering!

Branch basics nontoxic household cleaners (code: KATIE10): https://links.branchbasics.com/katieferraroCow’s milk should not be consumed as a drink until twelve months, but you can use it from six months in recipes and in their cereal, so long as your baby is getting their recommended daily intake of breast milk or formula. Tip 2. Introduce a cup from around six months and offer sips of water with meals. Using an open cup or a free-flow cup without a valve will help your baby learn to sip and is better for her teeth.

Weaning Made Simple features helpful lists and guides, meal planners, portion guidance, actual-size finger food illustrations and easy-to-follow information on everything from starting out and reducing milk feeds, to critical nutrients, allergies and special diets.Tip 3. Baby-led weaning encourages hand-to-eye coordination and regularly handling foods improves their dexterity, which is a hugely important skill for your baby to master. I requested this book as I had just started on my weaning journey with my baby and was struggling a bit, I had another weaning book from this author which I found really helpful but this one came recommenced so I thought I would give it a go. Follow the same 100 FIRST FOODS DAILY MEAL PLAN that Yesenia and Sophia are doing. It’s inside the BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO program at https://babyledweaning.co/program.

If your family eats animal foods then meats like beef are a good idea to incorporate into the weaning diet. Beef provides unique nutrition, taste and texture opportunities and in this episode I’ll share a number of ways to make beef safe for babies, including my favorite cuts of beef - and the main type of beef I recommend that you avoid for early eaters. Episode 150 - Breastfeeding + BLW: How to Succeed at Both Simultaneously with Heather Dvorak, IBCLC Episode 380 - Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH Tip 7. Ripeness in fruit is an extremely important aspect to support digestion. Ripeness is all about texture and being able to physically manage to eat the food. For example, a ripe banana is soft and squishy, and perfect for your baby. Annabel Karmel has spent her career helping families giving advice, support and providing nutritious recipes for kids, so she knows what a challenge baby weaning can be. Annabel’s book Weaning Made Simple is full of practical information and easy-to-follow guidance and 100 baby weaning recipes to support you through the weaning stage and lay the foundations for a lifetime of healthy eating. Here, Annabel lets us in on her top tips for weaning and shares the truth behind the weaning myths every parent has heard.If your baby goes to daycare and you’re starting solid foods, you’re probably wondering, “When do these 2 things link up? When is it ok to start sending finger foods to daycare?” In this episode, new mom - Yesenia Jacobo is sharing her own experience doing baby-led weaning with her daughter Sophia and how and when they decided to start sending finger foods to daycare. You don’t need a lot of fancy gadgets or a big budget to help your baby learn how to eat real food…but there are a few staple tools that will streamline your safe food preparation. In this episode I’m sharing 10 tools that I use every day to simplify feeding babies. There was some really helpful tips in here though on simple things such as how to cut certain fruit and veg for baby which was something that I always worried about and which first finger foods to introduce, this helped me to introduce these things to my little girl with a bit more ease. There were some good recipes in here however I found a lot of them contained dairy products and there was no mention of what alternative to use or how which is something I have seen in other weaning books and really appreciated with having a baby with a milk allergy, also I found most of the recipes contained for me at least thing that are difficult to source in my little town supermarket and would have liked some simpler recipes, although I have to say the five veg Bolognese was a winner. Tap water is perfectly fine for your baby from 6 months (so long as the supply is safe). It is only necessary to boil tap water to kill any bacteria if using with formula. Encourage playing and exploring with food’s flavours and textures as much as possible. After all, taste is just one of the five senses. Offer a finger food along with a dip or purée for a hands-on baby-led weaning experience.

Offering food to your baby food is the only way to know if they’re allergic to it…but that doesn’t mean it’s not scary. In this episode pediatrician and food allergy practitioner and researcher Tina Sindher, MD is going to teach some basic tips for introducing allergenic foods as a means to help reduce the risk of food allergy in your baby. Episode 286 - Is My Baby Dairy Intolerant? Food Protein Induced Allergic Proctocolitis (FPIAP) with Marion Groetch, MS, RDNEpisode 366 - Oral Immunotherapy: Helping Babies Become Less Reactive to Allergenic Foods with David Stukus, MD Episode 194 - BLW Food Size: Why Do Early Eaters Need Big Pieces of Food? with @msdawnslp Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP Tip 4. There is no right or wrong to weaning. Some babies thrive on purées, others on finger foods, and some on both. Try taking baby out of their highchair and cleaning them up while sitting them on your knee. That way, they are less likely to associate the negativity of having their face and hands wiped within their immediate feeding space.