Is baby-led feeding different from baby-led weaning?
“Baby-led weaning” was coined by authors Tracey Murkett and Gill Rapley in 2008 when they published their initial book in the UK. It refers to a baby starting solids solely by self-feeding with food they can grasp, without any purées or spoon-feeding. In the UK, where “weaning” refers to the introduction of complementary foods, this term makes a lot of sense, but here in North America, most parents hear “weaning” and think it means.
Some people feel baby-led feeding is a less hard core approach than baby-led weaning. It’s sometimes referred to as “modified baby-led weaning,” in which some smoother textures and purées are combined with larger pieces a baby can pick up on their own. More diehard advocates of baby-led weaning focus on exclusive self-feeding and no smooth textures whatsoever.Our current Health Canada guidelines actually recommend a combination approach.
Parents are often concerned about the safety of a partial BLW approach, but this modified method allows for nutritional needs to be met, while still letting the baby self-feed with a
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