Hello, I'm Monica Reinagle.

Welcome to the Nutrition Diva Podcast.

Joining me on the show today is registered dietician nutritionist Leslie Schilling. She's here to talk about. the

on the show today is registered dietitian nutritionist Leslie Schilling. She's here to talk about her new book,

Born to Eat, and a little bit about the growing popularity of the baby-led weaning movement.

You may have heard something about this.

It's a new approach, well, really, it's a return

to a more traditional approach to feeding infants

and young children. But this conversation does have some

implications for the rest of us as well. I get an awful lot of questions from

listeners about how to manage the introduction of solid foods for infants and toddlers.

Parents and grandparents are understandably anxious about getting this right.

And there's some conflicting information out there not to mention a ton of

lore and well-meaning advice that can get kind of overwhelming.

Baby nutrition is sort of a specialty area of nutrition and to be perfectly honest it's not an area of particular expertise for me, but my colleagues Leslie Schilling and Wendy Joe Peterson, both of whom are registered dietician

nutritionists as well as mothers, have just written a new book called Born to Eat.

Not only is this a fantastic resource

for anybody who's navigating through this important phase

of a child's and a family's life,

but I love the relaxed and realistic approach that they take here.

It's a much needed antidote to all of the dogma and stress that can accompany this topic. So I can highly recommend this book to you.

And today Leslie is joining me on the podcast to answer your most frequently asked

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