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

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

Baby-led weaning provides similar calories to pureed foods and may offer advantages in growth, according to a new study. The popular parenting method of baby-led weaning, where babies are given whole, ...

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

A new study suggests that baby-led weaning provides ample calories for growth and development. Matzeller shows two age-appropriate methods of preparing food to follow baby-led weaning. Chicago (June ...

A growing number of parents are skipping spoon-feeding their babies and trying “baby-led weaning” instead. By Katie J. M. Baker Jenny Best was determined that her firstborn son would have a positive ...

A new study has shown that babies who are weaned using solid finger food are more likely to develop healthier food preferences and are less likely to become overweight as children than those who are ...

When Marina Chaparro's baby was 6 months old, she felt that her daughter was ready to start eating solid foods. But when Chaparro offered some to her, "she would not open her mouth. Wouldn't even pick ...

As a first-time mum, Leah said she was nervous about weaning. (Leah Weenen) I’ll never forget the night that changed me as a mother. On a seemingly ordinary evening in March, my eight-month-old son, ...