Weaning Made Simple: The All-You-Need-To-Know Visual Guide to Weaning

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Episode 150 - Breastfeeding + BLW: How to Succeed at Both Simultaneously with Heather Dvorak, IBCLC

Cow’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.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. Episode 366 - Oral Immunotherapy: Helping Babies Become Less Reactive to Allergenic Foods with David Stukus, MD It’s true that babies like familiar foods, but food habits are formed early, so if you keep offering a range of nutritious, wholesome foods, there’s more chance they’ll eat healthily when they’re older. Weaning Made Simpl e 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.

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! Episode 380 - Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH Episode 194 - BLW Food Size: Why Do Early Eaters Need Big Pieces of Food? with @msdawnslp Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLPTip 4. There is no right or wrong to weaning. Some babies thrive on purées, others on finger foods, and some on both. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. Episode 286 - Is My Baby Dairy Intolerant? Food Protein Induced Allergic Proctocolitis (FPIAP) with Marion Groetch, MS, RDN

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Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS.