Baby-Led Weaning Made Easy

#15: Babies love eggs! This is one of the easiest potentially allergenic foods to introduce to babies and one you can easily do in the first few weeks of starting solid foods with baby-led weaning.   Recommendations and guidance about when to...

#14: Feeding peanut protein to your baby early and often can help prevent peanut allergy. But it can be hard to figure out a safe way to feed peanuts to your baby. Intact peanuts and globs of peanut butter are choking hazards for babies.   In...

#13: Milk, egg and peanut are the most common allergies among children. Introducing potentially allergenic foods early and often to babies helps prevent food allergy down the road. If you’re nervous about introducing allergenic foods, start with...

#12: Your baby can safely try 1 new food per day. You may have heard the advice to wait 3-5 days between trying new foods, but that is a recommendation for potentially allergenic foods. Yes, we do build in observation time after trying a new...

#11: How do you introduce allergenic foods to your baby? And what if your baby has a reaction to food? Giving potentially allergenic foods to babies may sound scary, but it’s actually easy to do and may help prevent food allergy down the road....

#10: We all make mistakes when we are learning something new! In this episode I’m covering 5 feeding mistakes most parents make and how you can avoid them. I’ve made many of these baby feeding mistakes myself; but, luckily there are a few simple...

#9: What if my baby is showing the signs of readiness to feed by is not 6 months old yet? Can I start solid foods before my baby is 6 months old? In this episode I explain why starting solid foods prior to 6 months is not only unnecessary from a...

#8: What foods should babies not eat? What foods are choking hazards for babies? Babies can eat most - but not all - of the same foods the rest of the family eats. There are some foods that are not safe for babies or baby-led weaning.   In this...

#7: This is a hard one for parents to hear: but your baby’s feet should be resting flat on a footrest in the high chair. A footrest helps stabilize your baby’s core, which in turn facilitates a safe swallow.    Dangling feet are a no-go...

#6: What size should I cut my baby’s food? What shape foods should I offer for baby-led weaning? It can be confusing, but smaller foods are not ideal when your baby is just learning to eat. Your baby can’t pick up and self-feed very small pieces...