parents have so much anxiety about food and about feeding and anything we can do to lighten

that burden by showing them how to safely prepare the food so that the baby can feed themselves.

I'm all for it.

Commercial baby food has only been available in a thing since the earlier part of the 20th century.

Like, what do you think cave mama fed her baby back in the day?

Parents have always fed modified versions of the same foods the rest of the

family eats. So while the term baby lead weaning is relatively new, the term is attributed to

Jill Rapley. She's a PhD and a British health visitor. She's the co-author of the original

baby lead weaning book that was first published in 2008.

The term is relatively new, but as a practice, this is generations in millennia old.

We're just teaching babies how to eat modified versions of the same foods the rest of the family eat.

So it cuts down on cost.

It cuts down on time.

And it helps preserve the parent's sanity because you're not short-order

cooking or making different foods for different family members.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypniburthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum

support specialist.

And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.

And this is the down-to-birth podcast.

Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?

Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.

Okay. today's medical culture. Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth. Thank you so much for having me on the podcast. It's exciting to beat you guys. I'm Katie

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