For decades, this was the widely accepted way to feed a baby: Sit them in a high chair, pop open a jar of mushy pureed peas, scoop some onto a tiny spoon, make an “open wide” face, and—whoosh—make it ...

Discover baby-led weaning at home with our son’s favorite foods! In this video, we share easy, healthy, and baby-friendly meal ideas that encourage independent eating and help your little one explore ...

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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 ...

Baby-led weaning (BLW) is an approach to introducing solid foods that focuses on a baby’s choices and allows them to choose what they eat. Soft, easily-chewable whole foods and thin sticks or harder ...

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 ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends introducing babies to solid foods when they are between 4 and 6 months of age. One approach to eating, called baby-led weaning, is all about letting ...

Babies who hand-feed themselves solid food appear to consume the same number of calories as those given puréed food from a spoon, suggesting that such “baby-led weaning” might offer no particular ...

My kids are 20 and 21, so obviously I’m way past worrying about baby issues. Or so I’d thought. But in the process of reporting this story about the infant-feeding trend du jour, “baby-led weaning,” ...

Last year on Halloween, “Glowy Zoey” the LED light baby toddled into our hearts and basically stole Halloween from all babies everywhere. And now this glowing cherub has returned, and she can talk!