For decades, this was the widely accepted way to feed a baby: Sit them in a high chair, pop open a jar of mushy pureed peas, scoop some onto a tiny spoon, make an “open wide” face, and—whoosh—make it ...

Baby-led weaning is an approach for introducing babies to solid food that involves serving whole pieces of food that the baby picks up and feeds to themselves. Baby-led weaning puts the baby in ...

Forget purees and let your baby feed herself. What is it? Baby-led feeding means forgetting purees and spoons, and simply letting your baby feed herself. The World Health Organization recommends ...

Interested in baby-led weaning? Experts recommend starting with foods like butternut squash, banana, avocado, chicken, broccoli, scrambled egg, apple, sweet potato ...

Often, when parents are ready to introduce foods beyond formula or breast milk to their babies, they buy jars of baby food or spend hours pureeing fruits and vegetables. But that's not the only way to ...

Baby-led weaning (BLW) is an approach to introducing solid foods that focuses on a baby’s choices and allows them to choose what they eat. Soft, easily-chewable whole foods and thin sticks or harder ...

Babies who hand-feed themselves solid food appear to consume the same number of calories as those given puréed food from a spoon, suggesting that such “baby-led weaning” might offer no particular ...

“That’s not how I thought this would go,” my husband said. “What did you expect to happen?” I asked him. “I guess, I pictured her actually eating it,” he replied. My infant daughter sat with us at the ...

Tiny Organics has launched its Tiny Beginnings non-puree baby food line for 4- to 7-month-olds, targeting the narrow window of babies' feeding journey where they are most open to trying and developing ...

When my baby turned eight months, I noticed a significant reduction in his acceptance of spoon-feeding. In most instances, having spoon-fed him from when he turned six months, my baby grabs the spoon ...

Baby-led weaning has become the new hot trend among new parents. The author published a weaning-related Instagram post that went viral, and it suggested many parents feel judged about their choices.