Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro (Katie Ferraro)

#354: Can babies wear sunscreen? You know that saying, “When in doubt…leave it out.” But is sunscreen harmful for babies under the age of 6 months? My guest in this episode is Rebecca Hartman, she’s a dermatologist and mom of 2. In this interview Dr. Hartman shares information about the difference between chemical sunscreens and mineral sunscreens, with her own personal mom insight on why she doesn’t use chemical sunscreens for her kids. Dr. Hartman has a conflict of interest to disclose. She is a Mom in Medicine with Evereden and a Scientific Advisor for the company and receives consulting fees from them. Her views on this podcast are her personal views and do not represent those of Dana Farber Cancer Institute.  Katie Ferraro has a conflict of interest to disclose. She is an affiliate for Evereden. You can get 15% off Evereden non-toxic skincare and kids’ mineral sunscreens with the affiliate discount code KATIE15. Click here to see my favorite Evereden skincare picks for babies + kids: http://shrsl.com/3dib0 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcast episodes you might enjoy: Episode 129 - Exploring the Eczema & Food Allergy Risk Link with Rebecca Hartman, MD, MPH https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/129  💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/354 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 I know you like LISTENING to infant feeding advice, but if you want to SEE what some of these best baby-feeding practices LOOK like, check out my baby-led weaning YouTube channel with new baby feeding videos dropping every week. Click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/babyledweaning  🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#185: What feeding schedule should my 6-7 month old baby be on if we just started solid foods? How many times a day should I try food...am I doing it too much? Or too little? In this episode we’re looking at some baby-led weaning scheduling ideas for babies who are 6-7 months old. I’m being joined by 4 moms of babies who are 6 and 7 months old and are sharing their current feeding schedule to hopefully give YOU some ideas! Listen to this episode to learn: Why there is no WRONG way to schedule your baby’s solid food feeds (...but some suggestions about why we avoid doing potentially allergenic foods later in the day) 4 moms share their current BLW schedule for organizing solid food in between milk feeds for babies who are 6 and 7 months of age Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/185 Links from This Episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to This Topic:  Episode 42: Daycare: How To Be An Advocate for Baby-Led Weaning with Poppy Duhnke Episode 165: Lamb: How to Safely Prepare Lamb for Baby-Led Weaning 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#499: Name another texture besides puree that your baby can safely eat. Most people can’t describe safe textures for finger foods…but that’s exactly what we’re doing in this episode - running down 10 new food textures for your baby to try…that aren’t purees. Listen to this episode to learn: How to help early eaters in phase 1 of baby-led weaning progress beyond puree textures What to do if you’re scared that your baby is going to choke if you offer textures other than purees How to increase the variety of textures your baby is offered…even if you don’t like to cook Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/499 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 195 - Texture 101: Tips for Trying Trickier Textures with @msdawnslp Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP Episode 495 - Taste Training: Introducing Flavors to Babies with @getpermissioninstitute Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, MEd, FAOTA 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#78: If there’s a little one on your gift list (...or if you’re looking to buy for the person who helps feed that baby!) this episode is a roundup of some of my favorite family feeding gift ideas. Inside of this episode I’m sharing feeding gear & goods for different ages & stages of feeding, like what to buy before you start solids, some helpful gear for once you get going, what you need to transition to toddlerhood and ideas for moms, dads & caregivers too!  Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/78 Links from This Episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to This Topic: EPISODE 56: Dog Meets Baby: BLW Do's + Don'ts For The Whole (Furry) Family with Alexandra Parry, DVM is here 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#178: What is white meat and is it safe for babies to eat? In this episode we are exploring various types of white meat: poultry and fish, including ideal cuts and preparation methods of each that are safest for baby-led weaning. Listen to this episode to learn:  How red meat and white meat differ because of the amount of myoglobin, a protein in blood that carries oxygen to the cells of the body White meats include poultry and fish, and a few tips about selecting each for BLW: Poultry:  Dark meat from chicken and turkey wings, legs and thighs has more fat which equates to more moisture and helps reduce choking risk Whie meat from chicken and turkey breast is lean and lacks fat, which lends to a more dry outcome and this can increase choking risk Fish: Fatty fish: salmon, mackerel, anchovy, tuna, herring among others have higher fat content (ideal for babies) and essential omega-3 fatty acids Flaky white fish: cod, tilapia, pollock, grouper, halibut - these are more lean and lack fat but you can add oil or butter to make easier for baby to safely swallow Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/178 Links from This Episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to This Topic:  Episode 31: Fish: How to Introduce Your Baby to this Potentially Allergenic Food 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#334: Introducing allergenic food to your baby early and often can help lower the risk of food allergy. In this episode pediatrician Dr. Ron Sunog is answering some common questions about allergenic foods. What causes an allergic reaction? What do allergic reactions look like? How much of an allergenic food “counts” and how often do we have to feed these foods? Dr. Sunog’s book EAT THE EIGHT is available at https://eattheeight.com/   Katie & Dr. Sunog co-teach an online program about safely introducing allergenic foods for babies called EAT THE EIGHT…AND MORE and that is here: https://www.foodallergyclass.com/et8-1  💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/334 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other Episodes with Dr. Sunog & those mentioned in this episode are: Episode 227 - When Does the Food Allergy Prevention Window Close? with @allergykidsdoc David Stukus, MD https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/227  Episode 286 - Is My Baby Dairy Intolerant? Food Protein Induced Allergic Proctocolitis (FPIAP) with Marion Groetch, MS, RDN https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/286  Episode 58 - What do I do if My Baby Has an Allergic Reaction? with Ron Sunog, MD https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/58   Episode 123 - HELP! My Baby has a Contact Rash from a New Food with Ron Sunog, MD https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/123  Episode 128 - Introducing Allergenic Foods: Ask Us Anything with Ron Sunog, MD and Katie Ferraro, MPH, RDN, CDE https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/128  Episode 216 - Food Allergy & Kids: What’s New and Notable with Ron Sunog, MD https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/216  Episode 226 - Allergenic Foods: Why Your Pediatrician Isn’t Talking About This with Ron Sunog, MD https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/226  Bonus Episode - Is it Safe to Introduce Allergenic Foods During COVID-19 with Ron Sunog, MD https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/bonus/covid  👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 I know you like LISTENING to infant feeding advice, but if you want to SEE what some of these best baby-feeding practices LOOK like, check out my baby-led weaning YouTube channel with new baby feeding videos dropping every week. Click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/babyledweaning  🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#473: Is baby-led weaning safe? Does it work? Is there research to support skipping spoon-feeding? In this episode we’ll do a deep dive into the current research behind baby-led weaning and starting solid foods. Listen to this episode to learn: Why baby-led weaning does not lead to increased risk of choking compared to adult-led spoon feeding…but what parents need to know in order to reduce choking risk How baby-led weaning prevents nutrients gaps and why your baby will not suffer from iron deficiency if you teach them to eat these foods from their first bites Which foods help prevent growth faltering and promote independent eating so you don’t have to force-feed your baby purees from a spoon Shownotes for this episode + references can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/473 Links from this episode: Book: Why Starting Solids Matters by Amy Brown Free Feeding Guide: 15 Foods Never to Feed Your Baby Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 70 - The Evidence Behind Baby-Led Weaning with Amy Brown, PhD Episode 214 - Overcoming Anxiety in the Feeding Relationship with Jo Cormack, PhD 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 #453: How do you do baby-led weaning if your baby goes to daycare? Daycare might say they only do purees, or they won’t offer finger foods. In this episode I share effective strategies for helping your daycare or childcare provider understand baby-led weaning and how and why your baby can safely self-feed even when they are away from home. Listen to this episode to learn: How to talk to your daycare about baby-led weaning…even if they say they “don’t do it” What to cover in your pre-feeding daycare meeting…and how you SHOW them this works Which foods to send to daycare and which other ones you do at home instead Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/453 Links from this episode: Download the free feeding guide Daycare: How to Be a Baby-Led Weaning Advocate at daycare here: https://babyledweaning.co/resources CPR: Take this online infant refresher CPR course and use code KATIE10 for an extra $10 off: https://courses.thrivetraininginstitute.com/pages/babyledweanteam ezpz: Get all the ezpz feeding gear you’ll be sending with food to daycare and use code KATIE10 for 10% off at ezpzfun.com    Program: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 3 - How to Prepare for Baby-Led Weaning: A Guide for Parents & Caregivers Episode 22 - Grandparents, Spouses & Partners: Getting Others on Board with BLW Episode 222 - Best BLW Advice from Parents & Caregivers Who Have Been There! 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#276: How long did your doctor wait to clamp the umbilical cord with your baby? If you’re like most parents, you probably have no idea. But the timing of cord clamping can have an impact on your baby’s iron status in infancy and later in life. Dr. Alan Greene is the founder of the TICC TOCC campaign (...long pre-dating that other Tik Tok :) and TICC TOCC stands for Transitioning Immediate Cord Clamping to Optimal Cord Clamping. In this interview Dr. Greene is teaching about how waiting until the pulsing of the cord stops - about 90 seconds longer than in conventional practice - can have lasting impacts on your baby’s iron and health later in life. Dr. Greene was previously on the podcast in episode 160 - Why White Rice Cereal Should Not Be Your Baby's First Food with Alan Greene, MD https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/160  You can read more about his TICC TOCC campaign and how to be an advocate for optimized cord clamping on his website here: https://www.drgreene.com/the-most-important-90-seconds-in-every-pregnancy  Watch Dr. Greene’s TedTalk about the most important 90 seconds in every pregnancy here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw53X98EvLQ  Want a list of iron rich foods your baby can safely eat? Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/276 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#136 Early introduction of peanut protein for babies helps prevent against peanut allergy. But how do you safely introduce peanuts if thick globs of peanut butter are a choking hazard for babies?  Greg Murphy, serial entrepreneur and food allergy dad is the founder and President of Puffworks, a company he started when he decided he wanted to improve on existing puffed peanut butter snack foods. Little did Greg know how important Puffworks Baby would become as an ideal way to use food to help prevent food allergies in babies!  In addition to the Puffworks Baby peanut butter puffs, the company recently launched an almond baby product, ideal for introducing babies to another of the potentially allergenic food categories: tree nuts. In this episode Greg is chatting about the ups and downs of running a small but mighty food business, why he prefers using food vs. supplements or powders to introduce babies to allergenic foods and other innovative ways to use foods to help prevent food allergies in babies.  Listen to this episode to learn:  Why food is preferable to supplements and powders when it comes to helping babies prevent food allergy How Puffworks baby ingredient line and manufacturing process differs from other puffs on the market What steps parents can take to help babies prevent food allergy with food Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/136 Links from This Episode: Check out Puffworks line of products on their site www.puffworks.com and use code 20BABYLED for 20% off (this is my affiliate code).  Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#272: Should I buy organic dairy foods for my baby? In this episode Britt Lundgren, the Senior Director of Sustainability for Stonyfield Farm chats about the differences between organic and conventional dairy foods. We’re chatting through all of the benefits of organic dairy farming and organic dairy foods, from environmental to nutrition, sustainability, profitability and wellbeing of the dairy farmers, and their cows!   🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱   To learn more about Stonyfield Farm and their efforts to eliminate toxic, harmful pesticides and persistent chemicals, visit https://www.stonyfield.com/.   The 2021 Stonyfield Impact Report is linked here and the organic milk study mentioned in this interview is linked here.   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/272   🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱   Want more ideas on what types of dairy foods babies can safely eat? Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link   Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#70: There is a real and credible body of emerging evidence that supports a baby-led approach to feeding. In this episode baby-led weaning expert, author, researcher and Professor Amy Brown is joining us to help break down the evidence behind baby-led weaning. Dr. Brown is the author of the book “Why Starting Solids Matters” and numerous research publications exploring the safety and efficacy of a baby-led approach to feeding. Listen to this episode to learn: Why it’s kind of even ridiculous that we have to PROVE that babies can feed themselves since prior to the advent of commercial baby food, that’s all babies for generations have been DOING! (...but also, Amy’s doing the research, so SHE is allowed to call it ridiculous :) How there’s no evidence to support all of the things opponents of BLW sometimes claim: it does NOT increase choking risk, BLW babies do NOT have growth faltering, they do NOT have nutrient deficits...and a ton more info about what the research DOES show as benefits including responsive feeding outcomes, family bonding and self-pacing intake. Differences in the US vs. UK when it comes to advertising of baby foods, infant formula and toddler or “follow-on” formulas as they’re called in the UK. And why parents and caregivers would be better served to totally bypass the commercial infant food aisle at their local stores, no matter WHERE you live! Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/70 Links from this episode: Professor Amy Brown’s website is here. Follow Amy on Instagram @prof_amybrown. Her book “Why Starting Solids Matters” is here. Dr. Brown’s review article “Baby-Led Weaning: The Evidence to Date” is here. This is a great place to start your lit review or jump off to her other research (...all of which is located under the Research tab on her website, first link above). Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#442: Is my baby eating enough and what if they start falling off their growth curve? Dietitian Kat Mikelaites talks about failure to thrive, growth faltering and helping babies get enough nutrition, iron and energy to thrive. Listen to this episode to learn: What parents accidentally do to compromise growth and how you can avoid this stress How to interpret a growth chart…and what to do if your baby falls off their growth path Why Kat uses the term Failure to Thrive vs. Growth Faltering in her program and content Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/442 Links from this episode: Follow Kat on Instagram @failure.to.thrive.dietitian Check out Kat’s resources online Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 266 - Infant Weight Loss: What to Do When the Doctor Says Your Baby Isn’t Gaining Weight with Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD  Episode 73 - HELP! My Baby Has NO Interest in Food at First Episode 110 - Catch-Up Weight: Why Starting Solids Early Will Not Help Your Baby Gain Weight with Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#434: Do certain foods trigger colic or gut symptoms in your baby? Eliminating FODMAP foods can help adults with irritable bowel syndrome, but should babies be on a low or no FODMAP diet? Kate Scarlata joins me to talk about whether or not a low FODMAP diet can help with colic for colicky babies. Check out Kate Scarlata online at https://www.katescarlata.com/ and on Instagram @katescarlata  Shownotes for this episode are here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/434 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes related to this topic: Episode 267 - Fermented Foods: Can Babies Safely Eat Fermented Foods? Episode 202 - Gut Check: Microbiome and Food Allergy Development with Liam O'Mahony, PhD Episode 108 - Probiotics: Should Your Baby Be Taking Probiotics? with James Marin, RD, EN and Dahlia Marin, RDN, LD 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#206: What is my feeding role as a parent and how do I make sure that I stay in my lane to ensure a healthy feeding relationship with my baby? Oftentimes it is common to feel the need and responsibility to manage what, when, and how much our babies eat but in reality a parent and a baby have different jobs during the transition into solid foods and learning how to eat. In this episode, I am joined by Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, MEd, FAOTA who is a pediatric occupational therapist specialized in working with children who have feeding challenges for 50 years and she is here to clearly define what a parent and baby role consist of and provide us with some tips on how to build a stronger feeding relationship. Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/206   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you’re seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#317: Don’t go to Trader Joe’s without this baby-led weaning shopping list! I’m sharing 5 new foods you can safely feed your baby from Trader Joe’s this week along with 5 other grab bag ingredients I always like to have on hand when I am grocery shopping at Trader Joe’s. 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes mentioned in this episode were: Episode 287 Constipation: How to Safely Use Prunes for Babies https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/287 Episode 165 - Lamb: How to Safely Prepare Lamb for Baby-Led Weaning https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/165 Episode 183 - Bread: When Can Babies Safely Eat Bread? https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/183  💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/317 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 I know you like LISTENING to infant feeding advice, but if you want to SEE what some of these best baby-feeding practices LOOK like, check out my baby-led weaning YouTube channel with new baby feeding videos dropping every week. Click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/babyledweaning  🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#357: Is your baby sitting at the table for too long? Or not long enough? Is there even a “right length” of time for meals? In this episode we’re looking at recommendations for how long your baby should be spending eating meals at different ages and stages. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/357 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes related to this topic: Episode 261 - DIY High Chair Hacks for Safer Baby-Led Weaning Episode 185 - 6-7 Months Old Babies: Sample BLW Feeding Schedule Episode 187 - 8-9 Months Old Babies: Sample BLW Feeding Schedule Episode 189 - 10-11 Months Old Babies: Sample BLW Feeding Schedule  Episode 191 - 12 Month Babies: Sample BLW Feeding Schedules 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#460 - Why do we make starting solid foods SO complicated? Documentary filmmaker and mom of 2 Paulina Lagudi is here to talk about the new film project she is making about starting solid foods called A Solid 6 Months. She’s following her own son’s journey with baby-led weaning, interviewing experts and exploring parents’ + babies’ relationship with learning to eat real food. Listen to this episode to learn: How Paulina took a much different approach to starting solid foods with her 2nd baby vs #1 Why she is making a film about starting solid foods and how that process actually works Which new foods her baby has tried and the ones she’s a little skittish to start just yet Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/460 Links from this episode: Follow Paulina & her film on Instagram @asolid6months Support the creation of aulina’s film A Solid 6 MOnths by contributing here  Paulina’s website is here Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#138 What do you do if other people don’t agree with the way you have decided to feed your baby? It can be especially hurtful when you’re feeling judged by other moms about doing baby-led weaning or bypassing traditional spoon-feeding. In this episode Chriselle Lim is joining me to talk about how to deal when others don’t get why you are choosing to feed your kids a certain way. Chriselle is a stylist and digital content creator in the fashion, family and lifestyle space. Whether you have 1 follower or millions like Chriselle, it still hurts when people criticize your parenting decisions...but there are steps we can take to move past hurtful comments and criticisms that get in our way of raising independent eaters.  Listen to this episode to learn: How to deal when other moms criticize your feeding choices What techniques she employs to move past negative comments Why the people you surround yourself with - online and in real-life - affect your outlook and abilities as a parent Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/138 Links from This Episode: Chrisells is the co-founder of a number of Bumo businesses: BÜMO means “parents” in Korean.  Bumoparent: founded in 2019 it is a digital/physical community for parents Bumowork: Offers a well-designed work space and licensed, on-site childcare under one roof.  YouTube Channel Catching Up with Chris Link Chriselle Lim IG page HERE Podcast Being Bümo with Chrisele Lim TikTok Channel: @chrisellelim   Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#307: What if someone else helps watch your baby…can THEY do baby-led weaning? If you have a spouse or partner, grandparent or childcare provider who is with your baby during mealtimes, you might be on the fence about letting them feed your baby. In this episode we’re looking at how you can succeed with baby-led weaning whether your baby goes to daycare, stays home with a nanny or if you just need a break! Daycare families: DOWNLOAD my free feeding guide BLW + DAYCARE: HOW TO BE A BABY-LED WEANING ADVOCATE AT DAYCARE by clicking here: https://fortifiedfam.clickfunnels.com/daycare-advocate?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=DayCare%20Advocate%20Guide 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Fore more advice on making baby-led weaning work if you have childcare help, check out these other BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcast episodes: Episode 22 - Grandparents, Spouses & Partners: Getting Others on Board with BLW https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/22  Episode 265 - BLW at Daycare: How These Parents Made it Work https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/265  Episode 237 - Getting Grandparents on Board: BLW Across Generations https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/237  Episode 42 - Daycare: How To Be An Advocate for Baby-Led Weaning with Poppy Duhnke https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/42  👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 I know you like LISTENING to infant feeding advice, but if you want to SEE what some of these best baby-feeding practices LOOK like, check out my baby-led weaning YouTube channel with new BLW videos dropping every week. Click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/babyledweaning  💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/307 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#355: Pasta lovers, rejoice: your baby CAN learn how to safely eat pasta. In this episode I’m covering how to make pasta safe for early eaters, including which types of pasta to choose (and which ones to steer clear of), thoughts on whole wheat and chickpea pastas, what type of sauce works for baby-led weaning and why pasta is my preferred way to safely introduce your baby to the potentially allergenic food wheat. 🍝 🍝 🍝 🍝 🍝 Looking for a low sodium marinara sauce you can add to your baby’s pasta? Download my free feeding guide called “5 BABY-LED WEANING SAUCE RECIPES FOR SAFE SWALLOWING” at https://babyledweaning.co/resources 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/355 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes related to this topic: Episode 29 - Wheat: How to Introduce Your Baby to this Potentially Allergenic Food 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#302: How do you handle people who spew misinformation when it comes to parenting or raising your baby? In this episode I’m interviewing Jessica Steier, DrPH, PMP and Andrea Love, PhD from the Unbiased Science Podcast about how to handle misinformation in the baby space. From food intolerance testing for babies, to vitamin and mineral supplementation and leaky gut syndrome, we’re talking through some of the more common pseudoscience claims that intersect with infant feeding. Listen to Jessica & Andrea - hosts of the Unbiased Science Podcast on their top-rated show at: https://www.unbiasedscipod.com/  Follow @unbiasedscipod on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unbiasedscipod/ and Twitter: https://twitter.com/unbiasedscipod  Starting solid foods with your baby soon? Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/302 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#392: Are you overwhelmed by info about how to raise your baby? Pregnancy and parenting expert and author Sharon Mazel has some simple tips on how to handle information overload in the baby space. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/392 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#174: Do you ever catch yourself saying negative things about food at mealtime even when you don’t realize you’re doing it? Our babies and kids are watching and listening and our words are shaping their relationship with food even from their first bites. In this episode I’m interviewing dietitian and body positive coach Riley Peterson from @raisingbodypositive kids about how we can create a more food neutral household. Using this positive language and avoiding certain words about food can go a long way in helping to avoid the charged associations with foods that many children are exposed to very early in life. You CAN create a food neutral household in YOUR house and it can start as early as when your baby is beginning solid foods with baby-led weaning.  Listen to this episode to learn: Food Neutrality: what it is and how we can make a food neutral household  Language: words to use and not use when describing food for your baby  Body image: how our words can impact our children’s perceptions of themselves Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/174 Links from This Episode: Follow Riley on Instagram @bodypositivekids Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#131: Are you struggling to cook for your family with food allergies? In this episode, I’m joined by Kathlena who is The Allergy Chef to talk all about dairy-free cooking.  Kathlena has almost 200 allergies and intolerances and created The Allergy Chef to help families navigate cooking while considering food allergies. She and her team have published cookbooks, do nation-wide outreach, create free resources and recipes, and have a bakery! She dives into cross-contamination, substitutes for cooking, her own family food allergy story, and more! Listen to this episode to learn: How to use substitutes for dairy in recipes to make food that is delicious and safe for your family with cow’s milk protein allergies How to read food labels to safely choose foods for babies with diagnosed IgE mediated milk protein food allergies How to prevent cross-contamination when selecting foods at the grocery store Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/131 Links from This Episode: The Allergy Chef website HERE Follow The Allergy Chef on IG @theallergychef Purchase cookbook & guides HERE  Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#295: Does baby-led weaning work? Is baby-led weaning safe? And how do I know if this is the right approach for starting solid foods with MY baby? In this episode I’m giving you a few key questions to ask yourself when you’re trying to figure out if baby-led weaning will work for YOUR baby. 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔 Download the free feeding guide “WILL BABY-LED WEANING WORK FOR MY BABY?” This decision tree covers the same series of questions from this episode that will help you determine whether or not BLW is right for your family.  Click here to download “WILL BABY-LED WEANING WORK FOR MY BABY?” fortifiedfam.com/willblwwork 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Your baby CAN safely learn to eat 100 foods before turning 1.Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link 📲 📲 📲 📲 📲 Follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes for this episode with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://babyledweaningpodcast.com/295 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#305: How do you make coconut safe for babies? Can they eat raw coconut…or flaked…and what about coconut milk? In this episode we’re breaking down a few easy ways to offer your baby coconut. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode + the coconut rice pudding recipe are here: https://blwpodcast.com/305 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#301: How can I help my baby have a positive relationship with food? And what should I avoid to help reduce negative associations with food and feeding for my baby? In this episode we’re going through some easy ways to help reduce vomiting, choking, anxiety and stress at mealtimes so that your baby can have the most positive eating experience possible. 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes mentioned in this episode are: Episode 20 - Vomit: What if My Baby Vomits when Eating? https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/20  Episode 77 - Baby Hunger & Fullness Cues: What They Are & How to Spot Them https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/77  Product, course and workshops mentioned in this episode are: Online CPR Class - use affiliate discount code KATIE10 for $10 off this infant refresher CPR course: https://courses.thrivetraininginstitute.com/pages/babyledweanteam Bapron Baby - best bibs for baby-led weaning and splash mats to go under the high chair, use affiliate discount code KATIE10 for 10% off, shop here: https://bapronbaby.com/discount/katie10  The Bapron Baby BLW bapron bibs and splash mats are also available on the ezpz website and affiliate discount code KATIE10 works for 10% off there too, shop here: https://shrsl.com/3qjoz Free 1-hour video workshop training BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS: learn how to safely prep BLW foods and get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list - click here to register for this week’s workshop times: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Your baby CAN safely learn to eat 100 foods before turning 1.Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list and learn how to implement Katie’s 5-STEP FEEDING FRAMEWORK on this free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link 📲 📲 📲 📲 📲 Follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes for this episode with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://babyledweaningpodcast.com/301 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#186: How bad is it if you don’t eat the same food your baby eats? Are you doing irreparable baby-led weaning damage if you don’t want to or can’t model eating BLW foods with your baby? Registered Dietitian Katelynn Sasaki is joining me on the podcast to break down a few scenarios where you might not want to or can’t eat the same foods as your baby, and what that means (and doesn’t mean) for your baby’s self-feeding success. Listen to this episode to learn: The benefits of modeling self-feeding for your baby...but why it’s also not the end of the world if you can’t swing this Situations where you can’t or might not be able to eat what your baby eats, including medical, child-care, personal preference or picky eating issues...it’s all ok! Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/186 Links from This Episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to This Topic:  Ep 72 How to Create a Pressure-Free Feeding Environment with Jessica Setnick, MS, RD, CEDRD-S Ep 174 Fostering Food Neutrality from Baby's First Bites with @raisingbodypositivekids Riley Peterson, RD 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#466 - Reliance on liquified and pureed foods in place of harder foods negatively impacts jaw growth in babies and young children. Ben Miraglia, DDS is here to talk about how earlier introduction of harder foods for babies helps improve jaw growth, airway health, sleep patterns, tooth spacing and behavior outcomes later in life. Listen to this episode to learn: WHY purees were not historically fed to babies and why they’re not necessary HOW the jaw develops when it’s exercised appropriately with breastfeeding and harder finger foods WHAT to do if your babies teeth are spaced too close together so you don’t have to pay for braces down the road Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/466 Links from this episode: The original Baby-Led Weaning book co-authored by Gill Rapley, PhD Tooth Pillow website: https://www.toothpillow.com/ - code BABYLED will give you a free evaluation from a highly trained Airway dentist and $250 off treatment if submitted by September 12 - 19, 2024. After that date code BABYLED works for 50% off the consultation and $100 off treatment (note this is not an affiliate offer and I do not receive any affiliate revenue from Toothpillow) Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 446 - Are Purees Making Our Babies Jaws Weak? with Nicole Goldfarb, MA, CCC-SLP, COM 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#476: How were you different before you had a baby? Are there parts of your pre-kids life that you’d like to go back to? Sara Dean is here with actionable exercises, talking points and activities to help you regain your identity after motherhood. Listen to this episode to learn: How to stand up for yourself and voice dissenting opinions without sounding like a whiner How to relate to children without friends when you want to talk about your baby all the time How to show up and speak up at work and in your relationship when you’re overwhelmed by baby life Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/476 Links from this episode: Sara’s Shameless Mom website is here Check out Sara’s LinkedIn page here Burnout Book by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski that Sara mentioned is here Katie on Sara’s Shameless Mom Podcast talking about baby-led weaning is here Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#440: How did you pick your prenatal vitamin? A new report found that prenatal vitamins might contain more or less of their stated nutrients like folic acid and iron. Helena Bottemiller Evich joins me to talk about how to choose a prenatal vitamin and why there aren’t clear agreements on what should even be in these supplements. Listen to this episode to learn: Which prenatal vitamins may have more or less nutrients than stated on the Supplement Facts panel Why there aren’t standardized guidelines about what goes in your prenatal vitamin How to pick a prenatal vitamin and what the most important B vitamin is to focus on Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/440 Links from this episode: Helena’s Food Fix newsletter: https://foodfix.co/  GAO Report: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106689 ACOG Nutrition During Pregnancy: https://www.acog.org/womens-health/faqs/nutrition-during-pregnancy . Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 389 - Can Cinnamon Cause Lead Poisoning? Applesauce Pouch Contamination Update with Helena Bottemiller Evich Episode 229 - Unpacking the Infant Formula Recall and Formula Shortage with Helena Bottemiller Evich Episode 394 - How Heavy Metal Levels in Baby Food Have & Haven't Changed in 5 Years with @consumerreports James E. Rogers, PhD 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#153: Zinc is kind of like iron’s lesser known micronutrient sibling. It’s not as talked about, but it’s role in growth and development for babies is really important. And while breastmilk and/or formula will meet your baby’s zinc needs for the first 6 months or so of life...it is important to start including zinc containing foods when you start baby-led weaning. In this episode we’re looking at zinc and what it does for babies’ growth and health...but also how you can offer foods that contain zinc to ensure your baby is getting enough zinc from foods.   Listen to this episode to learn:  WHAT zinc is and how having enough zinc ensures your baby’s body can perform more than 300 different enzymatic reactions related to things like immune function, taste and smell, growth and development and cognition. WHEN baby’s zinc needs begin increasing and why it’s important to include zinc containing foods as part of the weaning diet WHICH foods contain zinc and if your family eats animal foods, how you can work in a rotation of these foods to ensure your baby is getting adequate zinc from BLW foods Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/153 Links from This Episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to This Topic: Episode 19 Meat: How to Prepare Meat Safely for Baby-Led Weaning Episode 76 Sustainable Meat: Smart Selections for Starting Solids with Diana Rodgers, RD Episode 117 Game Meat: How to Offer Game Meats Safely to Your Baby 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#45: Sure babies should eat a wide variety of foods, flavors, tastes and textures - but what does that actually LOOK like on your baby’s plate?!  In this episode I’m breaking down HOW you can introduce your baby to 1 new food per day while at the same time recycling back the familiar foods from previous days. And I’m sharing how you distribute foods across your baby’s plate, keeping the portions realistic and promoting nutrient balance that will help fuel your baby’s growing body. Listen to this episode to learn: How to partition a 20-minute meal into two 10-minute sections: the first we spend introducing the baby to the new food of the day and the 2nd is a way to reintroduce that same new food + 2 familiar foods from previous days How to divide the foods up (no more than 3 foods tops!) over your baby’s plate so that you’re achieving balance between the smaller protein and fruit OR vegetable serving + reserving more space for the starchy or carbohydrate food, which is the food that fuels your baby’s body! Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/45 Links from this episode: ezpz Tiny Bowl (5 oz) - ideal for introducing that new food of the day, use code KATIE10 for 10% off ezpz Mini Bowl (8 oz) - also great for single foods or trying new foods for babies, code KATIE10 ezpz Mini Mat (2x2oz + 1x4oz portion) - this is my preferred plate for offering up to 3 foods for babies, code KATIE10 Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#374: Does your pediatrician screen for anemia at your baby’s in-office well check? In this episode Staffan Ahlandsberg, PhD from HemoCue is explaining how iron testing and anemia screening works…and what to do if your doctor is not screening for anemia (even if you’ve been told your baby is “not at risk” for anemia). 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes related to iron you might like: Ep 263 - Iron Drops: Does My Baby Need Iron Supplements? Episode 169 - Iron: Does My Baby Really Need to Eat 11mg Iron Per Day? Episode 137 - Iron: Can My Baby Get Enough Iron from Baby-Led Weaning Foods? 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/374 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#347: Does my baby need supplements or can they get all of the nutrition they need from food? In this episode we’re looking at supplements you can skip if your baby has started solid foods.  🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcasts on supplements for babies that you might enjoy: Episode 263 - Iron Drops: Does My Baby Need Iron Supplements? https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/263  Episode 193 - Protein: How Much Protein Does My Baby Need? https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/193  Episode 333 - Vitamin D Drops: Does My Baby Still Need Vitamin D Drops After Starting Solid Foods? https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/333  💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/347 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 I know you like LISTENING to infant feeding advice, but if you want to SEE what some of these best baby-feeding practices LOOK like, check out my baby-led weaning YouTube channel with new baby feeding videos dropping every week. Click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/babyledweaning  🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#157: Can babies eat yogurt? And why is yogurt ok if babies should not have fluid cow’s milk until they turn 1? In this episode we’re exploring the yogurt aisle, with tips on what to look for - and what to leave out - when you’re looking for a yogurt to offer your baby for baby-led weaning. Listen to this episode to learn: WHAT type of yogurt babies can eat...and spoiler alert: you don’t have to be buying baby yogurt. Babies can eat regular yogurt, but there are a few tips in this episode for what to look for when you’re shopping. HOW to offer yogurt to your baby while still honoring the self-feeding principles of baby-led weaning. Quick tip: it involves a pre-loaded baby-led weaning spoon. WHICH TYPE of yogurt babies can eat, why we want to offer cow’s milk protein foods early and often and why yogurt is a better bet than cheese and fluid cow’s milk for babies Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/157 Links from This Episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to This Topic: Episode 13: Milk Protein: How to Introduce Your Baby to this Potentially Allergenic Food BONUS:  Purees + BLW with SLP Feeding Expert Dawn Winkelmann Episode 108: Should Your Baby Be Taking Probiotics? with James Marin, RD, EN and Dahlia Marin, RDN, LD Episode 113: Transitioning to Cow's Milk: How Do I Do This? Episode 79: How to Pick a Milk When Your Baby Turns 1 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#165: Your baby can safely eat lamb. Lamb is one of my favorite baby-led weaning foods and in this episode I’m sharing how you can safely prepare lamb so that your baby can self-feed this important food from 6 months of age on. If you’re intimidated by cooking meat - especially roasts - or if you’re not entirely convinced your baby can eat lamb, take a listen and learn how. I promise lamb is going to be one of your favorite go-to BLW foods! Listen to this episode to learn: WHY you want to offer high iron foods like lamb early and often in BLW HOW to safely prep lamb, from solid strips of lamb or pureed meat if you’re more comfortable starting out that way The number one tip for making solid strips of lamb safe to eat for babies who are 6 months of age + showing the other signs of readiness to feed Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/165 Links from This Episode: I love the ezpz Tiny Spoon for offering puree lamb off of a pre-loaded spoon. This is my favorite BLW spoon and my affiliate discount code KATIE10 works for 10% off at ezpzfun.com.  Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#243: Finding yourself hesitant to start baby-led weaning with your baby because of the constant feeding push-backs you encounter as a parent? Feeling a bit overwhelmed because of the fear of watching your baby gag when eating? Preparing for what is to come and understanding the natural process of transitioning to solid foods will help a parent become confident in their baby’s ability to self-feed. In this episode I am sharing tips and tricks on how parents can work around feeding roadblocks they encounter while baby-led weaning.    Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/243   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you’re seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#361: Do you need to worry about how much saturated fat your baby eats? In this episode we’re looking at 3 additional areas of the nutrition facts panel as they pertain to babies’ intake: saturated fats, fiber and the percent daily value (%DV). See episode 351 for Label Reading 101 for info about added sugars, sodium and iron for babies. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/361 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes related to this topic: Episode 351 - Label Reading 101: What to Look for in Foods You Offer Your Baby 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#314: What’s the deal with the Montessori weaning table? Is it just a glorified kids’ table or are there real benefits from having your child eat at a small table from a small chair? I’ve always been curious about this idea of the weaning table…because there are a lot of overlaps with the baby-led weaning approach and the Montessori methods - so I wanted to speak with a Montessori specialist and my guest today is Jeanne-Marie Paynel…she is a Montesorri parenting mentor with a Masters Degree in Montessori education and she’s going to break down the basic arrangement of the Montessori feeding area of the house with or without use of the weaning table. Follow Jeanne-Marie online at http://www.yourparentingmentor.com/  Listen to Jeanne-Marie’s podcast The Art of Parenting https://voilamontessori.com/the-art-of-parenting-podcast/  💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/314 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#487: What if your baby can’t eat or doesn’t eat eggs? The internet is full of egg substitute ideas, but a lot of them don’t actually work. Here are the ones I use when making egg-free foods for babies. Listen to this episode to learn: Which type of babies can’t have eggs and why What eggs do in baking and cooking…and what happens when you leave them out How to make egg substitutes in your own kitchen that will actually work in recipes Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/487 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 124 - Using an Egg Ladder for Babies with Egg Allergy with Carina Venter, PhD, RD Episode 274 - Baby Has Skin Reactions to Milk, Egg and Peanut: What Should I Do Next? with Carina Venter, PhD, RDN 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#367: Here are a few not-so-normal infant feeding questions I’ve gotten lately. We’re all over the board in this episode from where to feed your baby if you don’t have a high chair to whether or not BBs used to shoot pheasant make the bird unsafe for your baby to eat. Hope you guys enjoy these answers to 5 Uncommon Questions About Starting Solid Foods. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/367 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes related to this topic: Episode 23 - Will Offering Fruit Before Vegetables Make Your Baby Crave Sweet Foods Episode 75 - Canned Foods that CAN Work for Baby-Led Weaning Episode 337 - Top 5 BLW Questions Answered Episode 296 - Top 5 BLW Questions Answered Episode 117 - Game Meat: How to Offer Game Meats Safely to Your Baby 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#19: Are you scared to offer your baby meat? Meat offers a variety of taste, texture and nutrition experiences, but it can be hard to make meat safe for your baby to eat. In this episode I’m sharing my favorite cuts of meat for baby-led weaning, how to make them safe and the best gateway meat to start with if you’re freaked out to feed your baby meat. Listen to this episode to learn: 1. Which cuts of beef and pork are safest for babies…and why we don’t do steak or pork chops 2. How to make your burgers not fall apart so your baby can pick them up 3. How to choose the fattier cuts of meat which are safer for your baby to swallow Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/19 Links from this episode: • ezpz: Get all the ezpz feeding gear you’ll be offering this meat out of and use code BABYLED for 15% off at ezpzfun.com. • ProgramBaby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  • Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to this Topic • Episode 165 - Lamb: How to Safely Prepare Lamb for Baby-Led Weaning • Episode 175 - Pork: How to Safely Prepare Pork for Baby-Led Weaning • Episode 176 - BLW at the Butcher: Identifying Ideal Cuts of Meat for Babies with 4th Generation Butcher Cara Nicoletti • Episode 177 - Red Meat Your Baby Can Safely Eat • Episode 178 - White Meat Your Baby Can Safely Eat • Episode 219 - How to Sous Vide Meat Safely for BLW with Iliana Cruz • Episode 223 - Ground Meat: How to Safely Offer Ground Meat for Babies • Episode 283 - Meat: 5 Cuts of Meat I Never Offer Babies • Episode 383 - Beef: How to Safely Offer Beef to Babies • Episode 342 - BBQ Meats Your Baby Can Eat with Barbecue Pitmaster Taylor Carroll 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#418: What causes food allergies and can introducing certain foods early to your baby help prevent food allergy? Food allergy guidance and recommendations seems to be changing quite regularly and figuring out the best way to safely introduce allergenic foods is confusing.  In this episode dietitian Bob Earl from Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) at foodallergy.org updates us on everything new and notable in food allergies including allergen labeling for the newest allergen on the Top 9 which is sesame. Learn more about Bob’s work at FARE on the Food Allergy Research and Education website here: https://www.foodallergy.org/  Shownotes for this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/418  🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes related to this topic: Episode 401 - Does the Order of Allergenic Food Introduction Matter? Episode 380 - Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH Episode 227 - When Does the Food Allergy Prevention Window Close? with @allergykidsdoc David Stukus, MD 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#445: How do you know if your baby is allergic to peanuts? The only way to know is to offer your baby peanut. In this episode I’m sharing 3 easy ways to safely offer your baby peanut with tips on how to reintroduce peanut early and often to help lower the risk of peanut allergy. Listen to this episode to learn: Whether or not your baby is at high risk for peanut allergy When to start offering peanut protein and how often to reintroduce 3 easy ways to make peanuts safe for your baby to eat once they start solid foods Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/445 Links from this episode: Puffworks Baby Peanut Butter Puffs use affiliate code BLWPOD for 15% off at checkout, shop here: https://puffworks.com/discount/BABYLED?redirect=/pages/baby-led Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners  Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 136 - Peanut Butter Puffs for Safely Introducing Peanuts to Babies: A Conversation with @puffworks Founder Greg Murphy Episode 274 - Baby Has Skin Reactions to Milk, Egg and Peanut: What Should I Do Next? with Carina Venter, PhD, RDN Episode 366 - Oral Immunotherapy: Helping Babies Become Less Reactive to Allergenic Foods with David Stukus, MD Episode 380 - Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#379: Which chairs are the best for feeding babies on the go? In this episode I’m sharing about 2 of my favorite portable high chair, which also work in a pinch if your current high chair at home isn’t cutting it. These 2 portable high chairs are durable and affordable and I think you’ll be a fan too! Here are links to my 2 favorite portable high chairs (these are affiliate links): https://amzn.to/3l896tm and https://amzn.to/32ernwj. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/379 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#010: We all make mistakes when we start learning something new - and the same goes for starting solid foods. In this episode I’m sharing 5 common feeding mistakes (full disclosure: I’ve made ALL of these)...and how you can avoid them! Listen to this episode to learn: 1. Why bringing a hungry baby to the table doesn’t work and how to schedule solid food with infant milk 2. Why waiting 3-5 days between new foods is totally unnecessary and will actually slow your baby’s progress 3. How to introduce 5 new foods per week so that your baby learns to eat and like real food from their first bites Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/10 Links from This Episode: • Download the 15 Foods Never to Feed free feeding guide here (https://babyledweaning.co/resources) . • Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  • Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episode Related to This Topic • Episode 12 - Why You Don’t Need to Wait 3-5 Days Between Trying New Foods 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#125: Did you know that up to 50% of positive food allergy test results are false positives? Parents are ALREADY anxious about introducing allergenic foods and widespread testing when not indicated is making anxiety worse. In this episode, leading allergist Dr. David Stukus is bringing us the TRUTH about food allergy testing: why it’s so rampant, why in most cases it’s not indicated and why FOOD and in-home oral food challenges are the best bet for “testing” whether or not your baby is allergic to a food. Listen to this episode to learn: Why food allergy tests are so routinely over-ordered (...spoiler alert: it’s all about money in food allergy testing and you’re the one losing out!) What to do if your baby has an allergic reaction to 1 food and your pediatrician recommends a panel of tests (...”RUN!” is his sage advice) How families can do oral food challenges to introduce potentially allergenic foods to their baby...and why that is a way more reliable test than blood or skin tests Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/125 Links from This Episode: Follow Dr. Stukus on Instagram and Twitter @allergykidsdoc Dr. Stukus is the Director of Nationwide Children’s Food Allergy Treatment Center He’s also the host of AAAAI’s podcast “Conversations from the World of Allergy”  Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#241: Ever wondered why baby-led weaning was called “baby-led weaning”? To answer this question, I went ahead and asked the creator herself! In this episode I am joined by Gill Rapley, PhD, co-author of the original BLW book and founding philosopher of the baby-led weaning movement. In this interview Gill shares her reasoning behind why she chose to coin the method “baby-led weaning” and why she finds certain vocabulary to be more or less appropriate to use in the feeding environment.   Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link   Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/241   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you’re seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#294: What if you could grow the food that your baby eats? Even if you don’t have a green thumb, Brian Brigantti from @redleafranch is pretty convinced you CAN grow some of the super easy starter foods your baby is learning how to eat. Brian is a gardener and content creator who is sharing how you can knock 5 of the vegetables from the 100 FIRST FOODS list off by growing these yourself: carrots, bell peppers, asparagus, squash and green beans. 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 Check out Brian on Instagram and TikTok @redleafranch and you can find his Red Leaf Ranch Beginner Gardening Guide here: https://www.redleafranch.com/beginner-garden-guide  💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 The 5 foods Brian taught you how to grow in this episode are from my 100 FIRST FOODS list…and YES your baby can eat 100 foods before turning 1!  Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link 📲 📲 📲 📲 📲 Follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes for this episode with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/294 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#52: If your baby has a tongue tie or has had a tongue tie release, you might be wondering if there is anything you need to consider when transitioning your baby to solid foods. In this episode I’m joined by SHaina Holman, DDS, PhD - a very different kind of dentist - because she is a dentist that specializes in infant tongue ties, but who has also done research on infant feeding practices and takes a multi-disciplinary team-based approach to diagnosing, treating and managing babies with tongue ties. Dr. Shaina is walking us through tongue ties: what they are, where they come from, and how having one or having had a tongue tie released may impact your baby’s ability to self-feed. Many of you with tongue tied babies may have struggled with breastfeeding - and I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag - but I think you’re going to like what Dr. Shain has to say: that transitioning to solid foods and starting solids with a baby-led approach is something you CAN successfully do, and in our interview she talks all about why and how that is possible. Listen to this episode to learn: WHAT tongue ties are, WHY you’re hearing about them more frequently and HOW she works with her lactation consultants and infant massage therapists to diagnose, treat and manage tongue ties and lip ties in newborns and babies. HOW having a tongue tie may impact your baby’s ability to breastfeed, bottle-feed and eventually transition to solid foods...and she’s also covering how that differs if the baby has had the tongue tie released Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/52 Links from this episode: Dr. Shaina’s private practice website and her tongue tie clinic Dr. Shaina’s instagram account Leave a review for the BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcast on Apple podcasts please Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#213: Do I have to wait until my baby has teeth to offer solids? Nope!..And although teething is often a time when babies begin to experience a change, it is really not necessary to make any drastic adjustments to solid foods during the teething process. In this episode I discuss the idea that having teeth is not a prerequisite for introducing solids and share some recommendations for teething babies who are ready to begin their baby-led weaning journey! Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/213   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you’re seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#222: Ever wondered what helped other parents and caregivers be successful at baby-led weaning? It is often common for all parents to experience the same feelings of stress and fear while introducing their babies to solids but what better thing than to ask the parents who have been there for their best piece of advice? In this episode, I will share a number of great suggestions from parents to parents!   Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/222   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you’re seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#364: When it comes to cooking dinner for your family, do you plan out every meal a week in advance or do you wing it day by day? In this episode Amy Palanjian from @yummytoddlerfood is sharing her Dinnertime SOS strategy for making meals when you’re cooking for toddlers and babies. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/364 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#413: Are foods before one just for fun…or does it really matter which foods we offer our baby? Saying food before one is just for fun is catchy…but confusing. In this episode we break down the idea about just having fun vs. intentionally picking foods for a reason before babies turn one. Shownotes for this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/413  🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes related to this topic: Episode 387 - 5 Reasons Not to Start Solid Foods Before 6 Months of Age Episode 351 - Label Reading 101: What to Look for in Foods You Offer Your Baby 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#268: Do you do baby-led weaning differently the second time around? I’m chatting with two-time mom Lauren McClure who did 100 FIRST FOODS with her daughter…and is now helping her son do the same, albeit with some different approaches to starting solid foods this time around. Lauren is chatting about which foods she now feels more comfortable feeding and what she would have done differently with her oldest child if she had another chance to do baby-led weaning.   Lauren was previously on the podcast in an episode called “100 First Foods Graduates” about her daughter Kiera. You can listen to that 100 First Foods Graduates episode here.    Follow Lauren’s son Kellin and see all of his new foods on Instagram at @kellinledweaning.   Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link   Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/268 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#343: What if your 8 month old hasn’t started on finger foods yet? Is it too late to switch? In this episode we’re exploring some practical reasons why you should prioritize finger foods with actionable steps for doing so…even if you feel like your baby is late to the finger food game. 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 If your baby was born prematurely, don’t forget to adjust their age when starting solid foods and you can learn more in this episode: Ep 119 - Premature Babies: How to Estimate & Adjust Age for Starting Solids at https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/119  💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/343 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 I know you like LISTENING to infant feeding advice, but if you want to SEE what some of these best baby-feeding practices LOOK like, check out my baby-led weaning YouTube channel with new baby feeding videos dropping every week. Click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/babyledweaning  🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Father’s Day to all the baby-led weaning dads! This is a special bonus episode of the BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcast and we are CELEBRATING dads who do baby-led weaning. If you’re ready to raise an independent eater and prevent picky eating then let’s get started learning about baby-led weaning together! Subscribe, rate and review the podcast here.   FREE BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS ONLINE WORKSHOP: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link   FOLLOW @BABYLEDWEANTEAM ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   SHOWNOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: https://www.blwpodcast.com/bonus/dads2021 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#41: Shellfish is one of the Big 8 allergenic foods (...the 8 foods that account for about 90% of food allergy) and even though it is one of the more common pediatric food allergies, it’s the one that I find parents are the most hesitant about introducing to their babies. That may be because we are less inclined to be making shrimp and crab and scallops at home than some of the allergenic foods, but it’s still a category of food we should introduce to baby early and often to help prevent shellfish allergy down the road. In this episode we’re looking at a few easy ways to introduce babies to shellfish. You can do pieces of shrimp or some of the more rubbery mollusks, but I prefer to wait until the baby has at least 1 tooth and has tried some trickier textured foods before diving right into the rubbery pieces of shellfish. Making shrimp into shrimp cakes or patties is a really easy way to offer shellfish in a baby-led weaning form that is easy and safe for babies to self-feed. Listen to this episode to learn: Why shellfish is one of the more common pediatric food allergies but one of the ones parents are least inclined to offer to babies How to prepare shellfish safely - mostly shrimp - in patties or fritters that babies can self-feed What to look out for if your baby has an allergic reaction to shellfish, keeping in mind that the reaction may occur on the second or subsequent exposure and won’t always be the first time the baby tries a food like shrimp or scallops Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/41 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#179: Babies can eat MOST foods if they’re prepared safely...but there are a few baby-led weaning foods I prefer to wait to feed. Inside of this episode I’m breaking down 5 foods that I wait on when teaching babies how to eat...and why! Listen to this episode to learn: Meat on the bone for baby-led weaning Corn on the cob for baby-led weaning Watermelon (and why babies don’t need extra water early on in self-feeding) Canned beans for baby-led weaning Bread for baby-led weaning Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/179 Links from This Episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to This Topic:  Episode 75 - Canned Foods that CAN Work for Baby-Led Weaning Episode 4 - Gagging vs. Choking: What is the Difference? Episode 19 - Meat: How to Prepare Meat Safely for Baby-Led Weaning Episode 24 - Water: When to Offer Your Baby Water and How Much Episode 101 - Straw Cup vs. Open Cups: Which Comes First? with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#014: How do you know if your baby is allergic to peanuts? The only way to know is to offer your baby peanut. In this episode I’m sharing 3 easy ways to safely offer your baby peanut with tips on how to reintroduce peanut early and often to help lower the risk of peanut allergy. Listen to this episode to learn: 1. Whether or not your baby is at high risk for peanut allergy 2. When to start offering peanut protein and how often to reintroduce 3. 3 easy ways to make peanuts safe for your baby to eat once they start solid foods Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/14 Links from This Episode: • Puffworks Baby Peanut Butter Puffs use affiliate code BLWPOD for 15% off at checkout, click to shop here • Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  • Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to This Topic • Episode 136 - Peanut Butter Puffs for Safely Introducing Peanuts to Babies: A Conversation with @puffworks Founder Greg Murphy • Episode 274 - Baby Has Skin Reactions to Milk, Egg and Peanut: What Should I Do Next? with Carina Venter, PhD, RDN • Episode 366 - Oral Immunotherapy: Helping Babies Become Less Reactive to Allergenic Foods with David Stukus, MD • Episode 380 - Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#197: Do I stop trying new foods when my baby is sick? Is it safe to offer my baby food if they are sick? In this episode we’re exploring some techniques for managing sick days when you’re also transitioning to solid foods.    Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/197   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you’re seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#454: Pregnancy complications are…complicated. Nobody plans to have a miscarriage or preterm birth or uncontrollable vomiting while pregnant. Emily Oster is here to talk about pregnancy complications and how to use data in preparation for your next pregnancy. Listen to this episode to learn: How to prepare for your next pregnancy…especially if the last one didn’t go as planned What words to avoid when talking about pregnancy complications…and what to say instead How doulas help improve birth outcomes and when to consider an OB-GYN over a midwife Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/454 Links from this episode: Read The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications - Emily Oster and Nathan Fox, MD: https://amzn.to/3RSPyeD Subscribe to Emily Oster’s Newsletter Parent Data: https://parentdata.org/  Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners  Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 328 - Managing Blood Sugar + Gestational Diabetes with Casey Seiden, RDN, CDCES Episode 204 - Data-Driven Feeding Decisions with Emily Oster, PhD @profemilyoster Episode 154 - Pregnant and Starting Solids: Juggling Back-to-Back Babies with @mommylabornurse Liesel Teen, RN 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#192: When is my baby ready to start baby-led weaning? What does an allergic reaction to food look like? Why are pouches bad for babies? …in this episode I’m including some of the best baby-led weaning advice from the leading feeding experts who were featured on the podcast in the last year. Listen in to learn about the best first foods for babies to eat, why you don’t need to wait 3-5 days between trying new foods and what you can do if your baby has eczema to help reduce food allergy risk.  Listen to this episode to learn: How do you know when a baby is ready to start solid foods? Explained by Gill Rapley, founding philosopher of the baby-led weaning movement and co-author of the original baby-led weaning book What is baby-led weaning and why is it better than spoon feeding? …also explained by Gill Rapley Should I use food to help my small baby with catch up weight? Covered by Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD specialist in weight and growth charts, growth faltering and food allergies Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/192 Links from this episode: The following links are titles to the full episodes with each baby-led weaning expert covered in this episode: • 100 - The History of BLW with its Founding Philosopher Gill Rapley, PhD (Part 1) • 102 - The Future of BLW with its Founding Philosopher Gill Rapley, PhD (Part 2) • 110 - Catch-Up Weight: Why Starting Solids Early Will Not Help Your Baby Gain Weight with Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD • 124 - Using an Egg Ladder for Babies with Egg Allergy with Carina Venter, PhD, RD • 125 - Why are False Positive Results in Food Allergy Testing so Common? with David Stukus, MD • 129 - Exploring the Eczema & Food Allergy Risk Link with Rebecca Hartman, MD, MPH • 140 - National Baby-Led Weaning Day: It's a Thing with Gill Rapley, PhD • 149 - Pouches: Why Your Baby Doesn't Need to Suck Pureed Food Out of Pouches with @msdawnslp Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP • 160 - Why White Rice Cereal Should Not Be Your Baby's First Food with Alan Greene, MD • 170 - Sensory 101: What Motivates Babies to Eat? with Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, MEd • 180 - Food Allergy FAQ with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#33: How much salt can babies have? This is a tough one because we know minimizing sodium is ideal for baby-led weaning but what exactly does that mean? In this episode we’re looking at sodium when feeding babies. Why should babies avoid added salt? What foods do babies sometimes eat that have too much sodium? And I’m sharing 3 easy ways for you to minimize sodium for your baby. Listen to this episode to learn: Why it’s a good idea to minimize added sodium in your baby’s diet...there are a few reasons but basically we want your baby to learn to taste the flavor of foods, not the salt How much is the maximum amount of added sodium per day babies should have, and whether or not you should be considering the sodium from breastmilk and/or formula 3 easy ways to minimize sodium, including some guidelines on what to look for on the label if you’re considering the sodium content of packaged foods to feed your baby  Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/33 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#260: Did you read any books about baby-led weaning before you started? Gill Rapley is the pioneer of BLW and co-author of the original baby-led weaning book…and Jill Rabin is a speech language pathologist and feeding therapist who adapted BLW for her work with babies with Down Syndrome and feeding challenges.    Gill and Jill just published a new book about Adapted Baby-Led Weaning called “Your baby Can Self-Feed, Too: Adapted Baby-Led Weaning for Children with Developmental Delays or Other Feeding Challenges” and in this interview they’re sharing their experience writing the book together from 2 different parts of the world.     Buy Jill and Gill’s new book on adapted baby-led weaning on Amazon here.   Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link   Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/260   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you’re seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#481: How do you make chicken safe for babies to eat? If your family eats animal foods then there are nutrition, flavor, taste and texture benefits to trying out chicken. But learning how to make chicken safely for early eaters can be a challenge. Listen to learn the best ways to make chicken for baby-led weaning to help lower choking risk. Listen to this episode to learn: When it’s ok to introduce meat on the bone like chicken legs or drumsticks How to make soft shreddable strips of chicken that won’t dry out or pose a choking hazard Why offering chicken early on in weaning helps from nutrition and developmental standpoints Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/481 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Videos & Episodes Related to this Topic Baby-Friendly Chicken Adobo Recipe: Family Meal Made Easy How to Make a Whole Chicken in the InstantPot for Your Baby Episode 178 - White Meat Your Baby Can Safely Eat 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#181: Bring that baby up to the table for Thanksgiving! In this episode we’re digging through the Thanksgiving menu to find foods that babies can safely eat for baby-led weaning. From turkey to mashed potatoes and roasted veggies on the side, I’m sharing my favorite Thanksgiving foods for babies (plus advice on which holiday meal foods to pass on too). Listen to this episode to learn:  Turkey - and why we prefer the dark meat (legs, wings, thighs) over turkey breast...plus what to do about the gravy Potatoes - mashed potatoes are a great food for baby-led weaning, just steer clear of the sodium + avoid skins  Vegetables - ideas on some roasted veggies that work great for baby-led weaning, plus the drawbacks of green beans and cranberry sauce for babies Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/181 Links from This Episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#32: Postpartum depression affects many women, and estimates range from 1 in 10 to 1 in 5 women experience symptoms of postpartum depression. In this episode, first time mom Carissa Rose shares her story about postpartum depression following the birth of her son Ollie. Carissa talks about how she struggled to conceive and suffered through a number of miscarriages before conceiving Ollie. Whereas she thought it would be smooth sailing once her son arrived, she recognized signs of serious depression 2 weeks after his birth.  In this episode Carissa opens up about her support system as well as how she dealt with and is dealing with postpartum depression. She shares with us how having a feeding plan for baby-led weaning helped her feel successful in an aspect of motherhood that she was previously apprehensive about: starting solid foods. Listen to this episode to learn: Her individual experience with postpartum depression, her support group, interventions she decided on and how she is managing her health now that her son is 14 months old How having a blueprint plan for introducing new foods to her son Ollie helped Carissa feel a sense of accomplishment and success she had not previously experienced as a mother Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/32 Links from this episode: Check out Carissa’s 100 First Foods instagram feed with her son Ollie @ollie.eats.world If you want to join Katie’s 100 First Foods program Carissa was mentioning in the show, it is currently open for a limited-time enrollment Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#167: How do I know if my baby’s tongue thrust reflex is gone before starting solid foods? What if I have a preemie or smaller-sized baby, should I really offer food early for catch-up weight? And what’s so bad about white rice cereal anyway?? These are just a few of the baby-led weaning frequently asked questions that I’m bringing some other feeding experts on in this episode to answer for you.  The guests answering your FAQs in this episode are: Gill Rapley, PhD - BLW SUMMIT Keynote speaker and author of the original BLW book Marion Nestle, PhD, MD - noted nutrition academic & author of Food Politics Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, MEd who wrote the first book on infant feeding Alan Greene, MD, pediatrician and founder of WHITE OUT movement to stop promoting white rice cereal as a first food for babies Kanchan Koya, PhD, spice guru & Harvard trained molecular biologist Aileen Cox Blundell, award winning BLW cookbook author Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD, growth specialist and food allergy expert All of this episode’s feeding experts will also be presenting at the upcoming BABY-LED WEANING SUMMIT taking place online (FOR FREE!!) October 18-23, 2021.    < < REGISTER FOR THE BLW SUMMIT AT BLWSUMMIT.COM > >    The BABY-LED WEANING SUMMIT is the BIGGEST BLW event ever and I’m hosting it to help ELEVATE and CELEBRATE BLW along with 16 other leading, feeding experts who are going to be teaching on the latest research and best BLW practices.   < < REGISTER FOR THE BLW SUMMIT AT BLWSUMMIT.COM > >    If you’re ready to raise an independent eater and prevent picky eating then let’s get started learning about baby-led weaning together! Subscribe, rate and review the podcast here.   FREE BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS ONLINE WORKSHOP: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link FOLLOW @BABYLEDWEANTEAM ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   SHOWNOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: https://blwpodcast.com/167 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#200: Is it possible to “combine” baby-led weaning with traditional spoon-feeding? This approach is sometimes called “combination” or “combo feeding”. To celebrate episode 200 of the BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcast I am honored to be joined by GIll Rapley, PhD, co-author of the original BLW book and founding philosopher of the baby-led weaning movement for this discussion. In this interview Gill shares her thoughts on what constitutes a “baby-led” approach to feeding, whether or not this can incorporate aspects of traditional parent-led spoon feeding, plus ideas on utilization of purees and spoons that you might be surprised to hear!   Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link   Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/200   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you’re seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#158: Calling all preemie parents. Have you been told that premature babies can’t do baby-led weaning? Well it’s not true and premature babies CAN successfully start solid foods using the baby-led weaning approach. In this episode I’m joined by neonatologist and pediatrician Dr. Terri Major-Kincade. She provides critical care services to preterm and term infants in the NICU. Dr. Kincade runs a NICU follow up program where she sees premature babies getting ready to make the transition to solid foods. Dr. Kincade is talking about the unique nutrient needs of premature babies, past medical experiences and trauma that may cause preemie babies to have food refusal, and what questions you should ask at your NICU follow-up appointment to ensure your premature baby is safely ready to start solid foods.  Listen to this episode to learn: How her premature sister born at 26 weeks in the 1960s inspired Dr. Terri to become a neonatologist before she even knew what that was Why she calls the weaning period “an eating experience” and what we can do to stop stressing that our premature baby isn't “getting enough” from baby-led weaning Which nutrients may be lacking in the premature infant...and what foods you can be offering (and which ones to stay away from) if you’re doing BLW with a premature baby What types of anemia your premature baby may be at risk for...and what types of food you can feed once your baby has the hang of self-feeding to help lower risk Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/158 Links from This Episode: Follow Dr. Terri on Instagram @doctorterrimd Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to This Topic: Episode 119: Premature Babies: How to Estimate & Adjust Age for Starting Solids Episode 110: Catch-Up Weight: Why Starting Solids Early Will Not Help Your Baby Gain Weight with Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#461: Can babies eat lunch meat? In this episode we’ll look at deli meats and explore whether cold cuts like turkey, ham, roast beef or salami are safe for your baby to eat.  Listen to this episode to learn: How the texture and nutrient profile of deli meats differs…and which ones to avoid Why deli meats are susceptible to foodborne illness…and how to reduce your baby’s risk Which preparation methods of whole cut meats you can swap for turkey, ham and roast beef Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/461 Links from this episode: How to make a whole chicken for baby-led weaning: Cheap Protein to Cook for Your Baby in 30 Mins | Step-by-Step Instructions Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 193 - Protein: How Much Protein Does My Baby Need? Episode 19 - Meat: How to Prepare Meat Safely for Baby-Led Weaning Episode 383 - Beef: How to Safely Offer Beef to Babies Episode 33 - Salt: 3 Easy Ways To Minimize Sodium For Your Baby 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#132: What can you do to get ready for starting solid foods before your baby is ready? Take an infant refresher CPR course. Getting your infant CPR skills up to snuff is incredibly important when preparing to start solid foods and baby-led weaning. Choking is a very rare - but real - risk, and knowing CPR can save your baby’s life. In this episode I’m interviewing Brandon Doersken, who along with his wife Caitlyn run an online CPR training institute. I’ve been a huge fan of their courses since COVID forced all learning online and having CPR skills gives you the confidence that you’ll know what to do if your baby does choke on food when starting solid foods. If you’re just getting ready to start solid foods and you have not (yet) taken a refresher infant CPR course, come check out some of the benefits along with ideas on how to implement the safety information you’ll use when you also begin baby-led weaning with your baby. Listen to this episode to learn:  How online CPR can give you the confidence that you’ll know what to do in the event your baby does have a choking incident. Which household items we all have laying around that are actually a big choking risk and we don’t even realize it. Why taking an online infant CPR course + First Aid + choking prevention can help you be prepared for starting solids and what you can expect when you’re there!  Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/132 Links from This Episode: The code KATIE10 works for $10 off all of these online courses. That is my affiliate discount code and these are affiliate links: Online CPR course Online First Aid course Online CPR + First Aid course bundle Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#281: When should I offer my baby water out of the open cup? How much water do babies need? Does my baby even NEED any additional water? In this episode we’re looking at the reasons why you might want to WAIT when it comes to offering your infant water. 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcast episodes about drinking stuff for babies you might like are: Episode 113 - Transitioning to Cow's Milk: How Do I Do This? at https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/113  Episode 79 - How to Pick a Milk When Your Baby Turns 1 at https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/79  Episode 135 - Toddler Milks: Why You Don't Need to Buy These Formulas at https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/135  Episode 101 - Straw Cup vs. Open Cups: Which Comes First? with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP at https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/101  Episode 60 - ​​6 Reasons to Skip the Sippy Cup with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP at https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/60  🥛 🥛 🥛 🥛 🥛 The baby-led weaning open cups mentioned in this episode were all from the company ezpz. You can get 10% off all ezpz feeding gear with affiliate discount code KATIE10. ezpz Tiny Cup, 2 oz for babies 6-12 months: https://shrsl.com/27bms   ezpz Mini Cup + Straw Training System, 4 oz for babies 9-12 months: https://shrsl.com/2kuf5 ezpz Mini Cup, 4 oz for toddlers 12-24 months: ​​http://shrsl.com/24ol1 📧 📧 📧 📧 📧 To sign up for my email list and get weekly BLW recipes delivered to your email inbox, click here: https://fortifiedfam.activehosted.com/f/9 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free one-hour BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS video workshop. Sign up for this week’s free workshop times here: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link Follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ More videos about baby-led weaning and how to make BLW foods safely are on the baby-led weaning YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/babyledweaning Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/281 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts and thank you for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Click here to review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baby-led-weaning-made-easy/id1509703697  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#114: If your kids were stressing you out with their mess at mealtime, would you quit your job to figure out a solution? Well that’s exactly what Lindsey Laurain, the Founder and CEO of ezpz did. Lindsey and her female-run are revolutionizing the infant feeding space with their silicone suction mats and bowls and cups and spoons that are designed with your baby’s developmental and feeding milestones in mind. In this episode Lindsey is taking us back in time to explain how she got the idea for ezpz, the challenges they faced when trying to bring their products to market and how they are helping to change the face of feeding gear companies by bringing compassion and science into all of the products they release. This interview is part of the series on female-led feeding companies and Lindsey Laurain and ezpz are certainly doing their part to bring the best baby feeding gear to families. Listen to this episode to learn: How the idea to make silicone suction mats was born out of a real anxiety-inducing problem in her house and how she went from a “piece of plastic crap” prototype to making some of the most revolutionary infant feeding products ever! The really nasty feedback she got after going on Shark Tank to pitch ezpz, and why declining the Sharks’ deals helped catapult their business while maintaining their core values How quickly their products get ripped off by imposters, why the sub-par products disappear pretty quickly and why she employs a feeding expert in the design of all of their products that babies and children use Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/114 Links from This Episode: Viral video Introduction to the Happy Mat Lindsey was talking about that spawned so many knockoffs is here on YouTube Follow EZPZ on Instagram @ezpzfun - they’re on Facebook here & the ezpz blog written by their feeding expert Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP is pure gold and you can read her posts here If you want to check out the ezpz products, click here to shop & use code KATIE10 for 10% off (this is my affiliate code) My favorite ezpz products if you’re just getting started with baby-led weaning are: The Mini Mat The First Foods Set The Tiny Cup The Tiny Spoons The Tiny Bowl Also ezpz has a pet line & it’s called ONO (...as in “Oh, no!” - the words you say when your pet tips their bowl!) The pet bowls are silicone suction ezpz bowls for your animal and the code KATIE10 also works for 10% off on their website here.  Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#87: We had 7 kids in 3.5 years and I have made a LOT of mistakes in my brief parenting journey. Before I changed my dietitian career to specialize in infant feeding and baby-led weaning I was a super stressed out mom trying to figure BLW out on my own to feed my quadruplet babies. It was hard for me to narrow the list of BLW mistakes I made when I was starting out down to just 7. I went through my phone, back to the first week that the quads started BLW and I am just cringing because I made SO MANY MISTAKES. My quads are fine, they lived through it...but if I can save you some heartache or stress or help you reverse an unsafe feeding practice early on in your BLW journey, well that’s my intention with this episode. Listen to this episode to learn:  Dangling feet in feeding table - we had a SUPER COOL LOOKING quadruplet feeding table...that was also totally dangerous because it didn’t have a footrest and the babies’ feet were dangling. Feeding directly on the table - seemed to me like putting plates or bowls out was just making more dishes. But actually putting the food directly on the tray or the table can really frustrate babies early on in feeding. Wiping baby’s face - neat freak, big time. I thought if I “cleaned as I go” the post-BLW mess would be less. But constantly wiping your baby during a meal is a really negative sensory experience. Babies NEED to experience what it feels like when food or liquid drips out of their mouth. Not practicing with an open cup - did NOT know that the progression wasn’t breast/bottle to sippy cup to baby eventually learns how to drink out of an open cup. Comparing my baby to other babies - we all do. But what they say is true, “Compare and despair”. I’m sharing how 1 of my quadruplets would NOT participate in eating during the first 6 weeks of BLW and it stressed me out to no end because I was comparing him to other babies namely his 3 quadruplet siblings instead of respecting his individuality. Passing on purees - big misconception about BLW is that it means no purees. Um….wrong. Purees are an important texture for babies to learn how to eat...they’re just not the ONLY texture babies can eat. Stressing when my baby didn’t eat - If you don’t have Ellyn Satter’s “Division of Responsibility in Feeding Theory” burned to the inside of your brain,  Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/87 Links from This Episode: Episode 40 6 Reasons to Skip the Sippy Cup with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP is here.  Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#406: How healthy are your baby’s gums and teeth? And why does it even matter if they’re just baby teeth and are eventually going to fall out anyway?! Ashley Lerman, DDS is a pediatric dentist and a new mom and she’s here to answer all of your questions about baby tooth brushing and oral care. Check out Ashley’s company that provides oral care kits and digital dental education First Grin. Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/406 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#469: What if your baby bites off a small piece of food from the adult pinky sized shape of food you offer? Is this small bite a choking risk? In this episode we explore what to do when your baby bites off a piece of food and you are worried the baby is going to choke. Listen to this episode to learn: Why longer pieces of food are safer for early eaters to pick up What happen when your baby bites off a small piece of the longer piece of food What to do when you baby takes a small bite and how to lower choking risk Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/469 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 6 - Safe Food Sizes for Baby-Led Weaning Episode 194 - BLW Food Size: Why Do Early Eaters Need Big Pieces of Food? with @msdawnslp Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP Episode 254 - How Babies Learn to Chew and Swallow with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP @msdawnslp 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#474: What is the best breast pump right now and how do you choose a breast pump with so many options available? Angela Lashbrook is a new mom and Consumer Reports reporter who has tested dozens of pumps and shares her thoughts on what features to look for when you are choosing your next breast pump. Listen to this episode to learn: Why wearable pumps are unlikely to meet your everyday, max breast emptying needs How a low tech hand pump can be more effective than even some double electric pumps Which pump is the best for plugging in, battery operating, hand pumping and wearing Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/474 Links from this episode: Angela’s Consumer Reports article about Best Breast Pumps of 2024 Get $10 off first year of Consumer Reports membership when you sign up here (this is not an affiliate link): https://www.cr.org/blw  Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 448 - The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Baby’s Food with Consumer Reports' James E. Rogers, PhD Episode 436 - How Long Can I Breastfeed? with Ronietra Stewart, RDN, IBCLC Episode 232 - Tuna Talk: Is it Safe for Babies to Eat Canned Tuna with @consumerreports Michael K. Hansen, PhD 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#430: Worried that your baby isn’t eating enough or getting enough nutrition from food? Being worried that your baby is going to lose weight is a real fear. There’s some data to suggest that infant massage can actually help increase your baby’s weight. Baby massage expert Helen Thompson is here to teach about baby massage and if it is a way you can help your baby gain weight. Check out Helen’s website here: https://www.mybabymassage.net/babyledweaning Shownotes for this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/430  🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes related to this topic: Episode 284 - Postural Support when Starting Solid Foods with Emma Hubbard, Pediatric OT Episode 320 - Supporting Your Baby: Empathy, Readiness and Connection with Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, MEd Episode 372 - Mom's Mental Health: Strengthening Parenthood Through Therapy with @momwell Erica Djossa, PHM-C 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#393: If you have a few mouths to feed at one time, then baby-led weaning is REALLY going to behoove you. In this episode we’re looking at the ways in which a baby-led approach particularly benefits families with multiples. We’ll talk about food swiping, when multiples are ready to eat on different timeframes, and how you can consolidate efforts to save time and money whether you’re feeding twins, triplets, quadruplets (or more!) 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/393 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes related to this topic: Episode 17 - Feeding Schedules: How Often Should I Feed My Baby? Episode 119 - Premature Babies: How to Estimate & Adjust Age for Starting Solids Episode 158 - How Premature Babies Can Succeed with BLW with @doctorterrimd Terri Major-Kincade, MD 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#257: It is not your job to make your baby eat…but you are responsible for what the baby eats, when they eat and where they eat. This is Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility in Feeding Theory in practice - but what if you’re not sure exactly WHAT the baby should be eating?   In this episode we’re looking at 4 super simple BLW food prep tips that will make your JOB of making safe foods for your baby a little easier to swallow. From how to soften fruits that aren’t yet ripe enough to making meat safe for babies to eat, listen to learn 4 easy ideas for making foods safe for your baby to eat with baby-led weaning.   Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free 1-hour video training called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link   Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/257   Other episodes mentioned: Episode 209 - Fruit Vacation: How to Help Babies Who Overly Favor Fruit Episode 155 - Bitter Vegetables: How to Safely Offer Bitter Vegetables for Baby-Led Weaning Episode 177 - Red Meat Your Baby Can Safely Eat Episode 178 - White Meat Your Baby Can Safely Eat   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly leave a review of this podcast with your idea for a future episode (...I get my best topics for the podcast episodes from your reviews!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#59: Ever wonder what to do with some of the random food at your house? Is there a safe way you can feed it to your baby? In this “Chopped” style episode, you guys shared a bunch of foods and ingredients in your house that you wanted to know how to make safe for baby-led weaning...and I’m answering your BLW food prep questions in this special episode! Listen to this episode to learn: 5 chopped foods were tofu, parsnips, pineapple core, greens, bell peppers Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/59 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other episodes related to this topic: SOY: HOW TO INTRODUCE YOUR BABY TO THIS POTENTIALLY ALLERGENIC FOOD HOW TO FLAVOR, SEASON, & SPICE YOUR BABY’S FOOD WITH KANCHAN KOYA, PhD HOW TO DO “PUREES FOR A FEW DAYS” WHEN STARTING SOLID FOODS 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#478: Nightshade vegetables sound…shady. Scary. What are they and why are parents asking more about eggplant allergy in their babies? Pediatric allergies Dr. David Stukus is here to talk about nightshade vegetables, whether babies can be allergic to them and what to do if your baby has a reaction to a new vegetable (...or any food). Listen to this episode to learn: What nightshade vegetables are and whether they really are considered toxic for babies Why some babies have reactions to eggplant and whether it’s a lifelong condition or outgrown Whether or not you should hold off on introducing nightshade vegetables like eggplant Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/478 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 468 - Oral Food Challenges: Try Allergenic Foods at Home vs. the Doctor's Office? with @allergykidsdoc David Stukus, MD Episode 376 - Are Food Sensitivity Tests Bogus? with David Stukus, MD Episode 366 - Oral Immunotherapy: Helping Babies Become Less Reactive to Allergenic Foods with David Stukus, MD Episode 227 - When Does the Food Allergy Prevention Window Close? with @allergykidsdoc David Stukus, MD Episode 125 - Why are False Positive Results in Food Allergy Testing so Common? with David Stukus, MD 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#380: When you were at your 4 or 6 month well check with your baby, did your pediatrician mention the importance of introducing peanut early and often? In this episode pediatrician and researcher Dr. Ruchi Gupta is talking about why only 13% of parents and caregivers are aware of the recommendations to introduce peanuts to babies early and often. From her unique vantage point as one of the most prolific researchers and foremost experts in pediatric food allergy - plus the mom of a child with food allergy, Dr. Gupta will help us understand the research that supports early allergenic food introduction guidelines, why the messages aren’t getting shared by pediatricians to parents and a little history lesson into just how dramatically allergenic food introduction in infants has changed over the last 20 years. Read Dr. Gupta’s book Food Without Fear. 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/380 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes related to this topic: Episode 180 - Food Allergy FAQ with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#39: Can you safely feed tree nuts to your baby if intact nuts and thick globs of nut butter are a choking hazard? Yes, indeed! And tree nuts are one of the Big 8 allergenic foods and a category of foods that we want to expose baby to early and often...but we need to do so safely. In this episode we are looking at some safe ways to offer baby tree nuts in food form, but without increasing the risk of choking. Tree nuts can be tricky, but by selecting easy-to-feed forms like almond flour baked into unsweetened baked goods or thinned out almond butter that the baby can self-feed, you can introduce our baby to tree nut protein. Listen to this episode to learn: Why tree nut allergy is different from peanut, but also how they present similar challenges in feeding to baby safely Two easy ways to include almonds safely in your baby’s diet...with advice on why almond milk is NOT a good bet for introducing almond protein to your baby Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/39 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other episodes related to this topic: Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) information page on tree nuts & tree nut allergy - including a list of tree nuts (there’s a lot!). For Meg Mason’s almond flour pancake recipe. Check out Puffworks Baby Puffs for safe introduction of peanut protein for babies age 6 months+ use code BABYLED for 10% off (this is my affiliate code) 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#231: How can I offer my baby the BIG 9 allergenic foods? What are some of the safer ways to prepare allergenic foods while baby-led weaning? In this episode I am sharing some of my favorite allergenic food recipes that are great for introducing the big nine foods that account for about 90% of food allergies. In my mini-course that I co-teach with pediatrician Dr. Ron Sunog, you will find complete recipes mentioned today that will provide you with ways of offering your baby allergenic foods “early and often” while baby-led weaning.    Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link   Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/231   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you’re seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#467: Food manufacturers love to make “healthy” sounding products for babies to eat and you to buy. In this episode I’m looking at 5 seemingly healthy foods for babies that are actually unsafe…along with substitutes for other foods that are better for your baby. Listen to this episode to learn: Why manufacturers don’t make baby food desserts anymore…except for baby yogurt Why this type of sugar is not more “natural” for babies…and what natural foods have sugar Why to steer clear of non-fat and low-fat versions of this food category…and what to buy instead Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/467 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 157 - Yogurt: How to Choose the Right Yogurt for Baby-Led Weaning Episode 27 - Honey: Why Honey is Dangerous for Babies Episode 360 - What's Wrong with Rice Cereal for Babies? Episode 246 - Arsenic in Baby Food with Charlotte Brody, RN and Jane Houlihan Episode 461 - Are Deli Meats Safe for My Baby to Eat? Episode 256 - What Type of Oil Should I Use for Baby-Led Weaning? 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#134 - Dry meats and breads can be a choking hazard...but adding sauces, dippers and toppers is an easy way to make these foods safer for baby-led weaning. I’m joined by Aileen Cox Blundell of @babyledfeeding who is sharing some super sauce ideas for BLW. The commercial sauces you buy at the store also tend to be too high in sodium for babies to eat, so Aileen is dishing on making dips and homemade sauces that are affordable, easy to put together and that you can freeze for future use. Be sure to check out the shownotes page for this episode to grab 2 of Aileen’s BLW sauce recipes: her Easy-Peasy Basil & Spinach Pesto and The Best Ever Curry-in-a-Hurry recipe. I’m also sharing a free download with additional recipes for BLW friendly sauces and dippers and toppers that will have your baby safely swallowing in no time! Listen to this episode to learn:  What kind of sauces babies can eat and how to make low salt sauces for baby-led weaning Ideas for sauce to go on top of fish...which can be dry and flaky and present a choking hazard if not sauced up the right way! How freezing even small amounts of sauces can help with busy days for meal prep and which of Aileen’s sauces free best Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/134 Links from This Episode: The Jamie Oliver TED Talk “Teach Every Child About Food” with over 10 million views that originally inspired Aileen to start her Baby-Led Feeding business Check out Aileen’s 2 BLW cookbooks on Amazon: The Baby-Led Feeding Cookbook is here The Baby-Friendly Family Cookbook is here Follow Aileen Cox Blundell on IG @babyledfeeding Follow Aileen Cox Blundell on Facebook HERE Aileen’s brand new website babyledfeeding.com is linked HERE  Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#372: Checking in on YOUR mental health in this episode. How are you as a mom doing with anxiety, overwhelm, self-care, invisible load? Moms are unlikely to prioritize themselves over the well-being of their babies or partners or other obligations in life…but Erica Djossa thinks there’s a better way.  Erica is a registered psychotherapist and founder of Momwell, an online entity that provides educational resources and virtual therapy for moms. In this interview she’s talking about how when a mom is well, a family is well - and what you can do to prioritize your mental health and mental wellbeing as a mom. Momwell Website: https://www.momwell.com/  Momwell Podcast: https://www.momwell.com/listen  Momwell Instagram: @momwell 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/372 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other podcast episodes related to this topic: Katie Ferraro on Momwell: How to Start Baby-Led Weaning Without Anxiety  🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#496 - The gag reflex is a natural and necessary part of your baby’s feeding development, but it can be a source of anxiety for parents starting solid foods. In this episode, Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP, a speech-language pathologist and pediatric feeding expert, breaks down what the gag reflex is, why babies gag on food, and how to distinguish between gagging and choking. Learn practical strategies to support your baby through this phase and build confidence in their ability to learn to safely eat real food. Listen to this episode to learn: Why babies gag on food and what’s happening inside their mouth when they are gagging How to react when your baby gags on food so that you don’t increase the risk of choking When gagging starts to subside in both frequency and intensity…and why gagging is a good thing! Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/496 Links from this episode: Choking Prevention and Response Course co-taught by Katie, Dawn and CPR Instructor Brandon Doerksen (use code KATIE10 for an additional $10 off): https://courses.thrivetraininginstitute.com/pages/babyledweanteam  ezpz Oral Development Tools (use affiliate code KATIE10 for 10% off) - shop Oral Development Tools here. Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 4 - Gagging vs. Choking: What is the Difference? Episode 238 - 5 Choking Prevention Tips with Brandon Doerksen 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#429: Contrary to common belief, cutting food into tiny pieces can actually heighten choking risk for early eaters. In this episode, learn why longer, spear-like shapes of soft foods (pinky finger size) are safer for self-feeding and other safe food cuts that reduce choking risk during the introduction of starting solid foods using baby-led weaning. Listen to this episode to learn: Why small pieces of food are NOT safer and actually increase choking risk for early eaters How to prepare foods safely for baby-led weaning so that your baby doesn’t choke  Which foods are best when you are starting baby-led weaning Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/429 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#273: Can babies safely eat flaxseed? What about babies and chia seed? In this episode I’m weighing the pros and cons of flaxseed meal and chia seed when feeding babies, looking at cost considerations, nutrition profile, how you can use each and why they both work (decently) as an egg substitute when you’re making BLW fritters.   Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link   Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/273   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you’re seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#239: Looking for ways to offer your baby an easy, yet balanced breakfast meal? This is the episode for you! It’s not unusual for parents to stress over the idea of preparing breakfast for their babies and the question is often: WHAT can I give my baby for breakfast? In this episode we are diving into breakfast ideas for baby-led weaning, looking into how you can make simple meals and how to make feeding easier for both you and your baby.   Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link   Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/239   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you’re seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#287: Can babies eat prunes? Dried sticky fruits like prunes (...the fruit formerly known as “dried plums”) can be a choking hazard for early eaters. But prunes are a valuable source of nutrition and can help constipated babies…plus it’s super easy to modify them and make safe for baby-led weaning. 🚫 🚫 🚫 🚫 🚫 Download my free feeding guide: “15 FOODS NEVER TO FEED YOUR BABY” Click here for this free download of BLW foods to avoid offering babies: fortifiedfam.com/neverfeed 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcast episodes about reducing choking risk are here: Podcast: 5 Choking Prevention Tips with Brandon Doerksen https://blwpodcast.com/238 Podcast: Gagging vs. Choking: What is the Difference? https://www.blwpodcast.com/4 Podcast: CPR Skills that can Save Your Baby's Life when Choking with Brandon Doersken https://www.blwpodcast.com/132 Podcast: 15 Foods Never to Feed Your Baby https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/8 Podcast: Constipation from New Foods: What to Do For Your Baby https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/28 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 If your baby is constipated, read this article “Help! My Baby is Constipated” and try my homemade apple prune puree recipes that’s at the very bottom of this post: https://www.fortifiedfam.com/home/2019/4/23/help-my-baby-is-constipated 📧 📧 📧 📧 📧 To sign up for my email list and get weekly BLW recipes delivered to your email inbox, click here: https://fortifiedfam.activehosted.com/f/9 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free one-hour BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS video workshop. Sign up for this week’s free workshop times here: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link Follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ More videos about baby-led weaning and how to make BLW foods safely are on the baby-led weaning YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/babyledweaning Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/287 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Leave a review on Apple Podcasts and thank you for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Click here to review: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baby-led-weaning-made-easy/id1509703697 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#477: Does it cost more to do baby-led weaning or conventional adult-led spoon-feeding? In this episode I’ll break down the cost of one week of trying 5 new foods for your baby…with receipts so you can make the call whether or not this approach is worth your time (and money). Listen to this episode to learn: How to streamline your baby food prep so you’re not making special food just for the baby Why making real food for your baby is actually cheaper than relying on pouches or jarred purees  How much is really costs to make your baby 5 new foods in one week (...that they’ll actually eat!) Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/477 Links from this episode: Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 111 - Grocery Shopping for BLW: Stocking Up Smart & What to Skip Episode 319 - Costco: 10 BLW Foods to Buy from Costco Episode 317 - Trader Joe's: 10 BLW Foods to Buy from Trader Joe's Episode 321 - Sprouts Farmer's Market: 10 BLW Foods to Buy from Sprouts Episode 323 - Walmart: 10 BLW Foods to Buy from Walmart Episode 325 - Whole Foods: 10 BLW Foods to Buy from Whole Foods Episode 369 - Target: 10 BLW Foods to Buy from Target Episode 371 - Thrive Market: 10 BLW Foods to Buy from Thrive Market Episode 373 - Aldi: 10 BLW Foods to Buy from Aldi 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#338: What’s the deal with breastmilk popsicles? …or formula popsicles? Or popsicles in general for a pre-feeding skill. In this episode Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP introduces the Tiny Pops she designed for ezpz. We talk about the developmental benefits of popsicles, which foods freeze well for babies and how to incorporate popsicles into your pre-feeding routine. Get 10% off the ezpz Tiny Pops and all ezpz feeding gear with affiliate discount code KATIE10: http://shrsl.com/1s7be   🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 Other BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcasts on added sugar you might enjoy: Episode 290 - Pre-Feeding Skills: What Can My Baby Do Before Beginning Solid Foods? with Marsha Dunn Klein OTR/L, MEd, FAOTA https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/290  Episode 300 - How to Use Oral Development Tools for Your Baby with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/300  Episode 114 - Revolutionizing Infant Feeding Gear with ezpz Founder & CEO Lindsey Laurain https://blwpodcast.com/episodes/114  💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/ Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/338 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 I know you like LISTENING to infant feeding advice, but if you want to SEE what some of these best baby-feeding practices LOOK like, check out my baby-led weaning YouTube channel with new baby feeding videos dropping every week. Click here to subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/babyledweaning  🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#240: Wondering what the best baby-led weaning gear is for your baby? When it comes to baby gadgets or feeding essentials there are endless possibilities to choose from. To avoid unnecessary purchases, Jennifer LaBracio who is the expert and baby gear editor at Babylist joins me to talk about the must-have baby-led weaning gear for parents whose babies are transitioning to solid foods.     Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop?utm_source=Shownotes&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Episode%20Link Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/   Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/240   Learn something you liked in this episode? Would you kindly subscribe, rate and review where you’re seeing this? (...it really helps other parents find this BLW info too!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices