Baby led weaning method. baby starts eating finger foods right away and they skip the spoon feeding and pureed foods completely. Baby led weaning is pretty much just feeding baby family foods that you will normally cook for your family without any texture modification, providing that is safe for baby and low in salt and added sugar. Avoiding high risk choking foods like whole nuts, adding grapes in half cutting cherries in half removing seeds in the fruits. Usually food is presented in strict form, so about the size of their fingers so that they can grasp with their pomegranates and the beginning around nine to 10 months then you would introduce some smaller pieces of food to baby when he is able to practice the concert grass, which is being able to pick small pieces of food and bring it to the Food is provided on the baby's tray for them to pick up themselves without any parents intervention, or help.

Baby is expected to choose what they would meet and eat as much as they want. It's only appropriate for babies six months or older when they have all the signs of readiness. There's lots of benefits to baby led weaning didn't encourage parents to wait until six months to start solid pitches The World Health Organization's recommendation encouraged parents to practice responsive feeding also encourage family meals because we are providing family foods. Babies are more likely to participate in family meals. Babies are being exposed to a variety of textures and research has found that there is less gagging later on around eight to nine months per Babies to practice baby that baby. There are some concerns around choking if it's not implemented properly.

So if it's implemented safely baby led weaning doesn't have a higher choking was the highest reported choking food is actually raw apples. And our concern with baby led weaning is the amount of iron baby is eating and so usually more comfortable starting with soft fruits and vegetables when they're presenting the finger foods to baby. And that has a concern of not introducing iron rich foods to baby right at the beginning because they are skipping the grade so they're not doing baby cereal, internet. There are lots of unnecessary rules around baby that meaning. For example, there are rules around you must not do puree at the same time. If you do puree You have to wait 10 to 14 days before you can switch to baby led weaning parents who do parades are often bash in Facebook groups internet moms get over anxious when baby are fed pureed foods.

As we have talked about there are no rules to feeding your baby the baby knows best. So the concern was strict baby led weaning is that you're following rule two strictly and that you're not following baby's cue which defeats the purpose of baby led weaning strict baby let me nurse my not intervene and offer other types of food to baby like grades to help them meet the nutritional needs that they need. If you decided to do baby led weaning, I want you to remember a couple of things. Number one, don't follow it. To strictly meaning that you can definitely feed your baby purine puree is just another texture like yogurt, applesauce, pudding soups. We eat periods as adult so there are no reason that we need to absolutely avoid period number two, you want to make sure that you're introducing a variety of iron rich foods.

So if you want to skip the baby's cereal, that's fine. If you want to incorporate baby cereal in baby led weaning, there are a bunch of recipes in the food demo module that you can go check out to make finger foods out of baby cereal. The other foods that you can introduce for baby led weaning that will be high in iron will be things like meat, fish, beans and lentils. x and not NC better and number four Wash your baby for cues. If they're not doing well on baby led weaning and you're not feeling confident that baby is doing well, it's okay to try something. Don't get stuck thinking that you have to stick with baby led weaning, I want you to keep an open mind.

Number five, keep it enjoyable. So, one of the benefits of baby led weaning is that baby is feeding themselves so you are eating with the baby at the same time, so baby get to learn from you, and you get to enjoy babies eating and baby get to enjoy your company. Number six, minimize choking risk. You need to take some safety precaution to avoid foods that will cause choking. You should be able to squish the food with your tongue to the roof of your mouth. So to know the handle on baby led weaning for summary of recommendations.

Also make sure you check out the videos on the slide deck for some exam. videos so that you can get comfortable and confident about it.