Baby led weaning made easy and enjoyable with Author Jenna Helwig

The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician Mom

Dr. Mona Amin

Medicine, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this episode I am talking to Jenna Helwig, the food director at ‘Real Simple’ magazine, the mom of a 1 one year old and author of 3 fantastic cookbooks. Besides others she wrote the number one bestseller ‘Baby Led Feeding’ and that is the main reason I’m so excited to talk to her about: What is baby-led weaning? The biggest mistakes while baby led weaning How to make the process more simple and enjoyable How to simplify food preparation The difference between meal prepping and meal planning Favorite supermarket shortcuts How to minimize food waste Find Jenna Helwig online at jennahelwig.com or get her amazing cook books Bare Minimum Dinner and Baby-Led Feeding. Check out my weekly videos on child health & development by ⁠⁠subscribing to PedsDocTalk on YouTube⁠⁠. Get trusted pediatric advice, relatable parenting insights, and evidence-based tips delivered straight to your inbox—join thousands of parents who rely on the PDT newsletter to stay informed, supported, and confident. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! And don’t forget to follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pedsdoctalkpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Instagram—our new space just for parents looking for real talk and real support. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠PedsDocTalk Podcast Sponsorships⁠⁠⁠⁠ page of the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are so many moms out there who have these rules about starting a solids that are
0:06.8	really not based in anything scientific.
0:09.8	You know, there are a lot of baby-led weaning rules that are like, well, you can never let
0:16.2	a puree pass your child's lips if you do that, then it's not baby-led weaning and you
0:20.9	have to just like go back to breast milk or formula and start all over.
0:23.9	That is not true.
0:25.3	Welcome back to the Pieds Dock Talk podcast.
0:27.4	I am fangirling a little bit because I am welcoming my most favorite author of the
0:32.3	only cookbooks I own, which says a lot because I don't own many cookbooks, but she's the
0:36.6	only one that I purchase cookbooks from.
0:39.2	Her name is Jenna Hellwig.
0:40.7	She is a author mom as well as food director at Real Simple Magazine.
0:45.9	We are talking about how to simplify and enjoy baby-led feeding or baby-led weaning.
0:52.1	Thank you so much for joining me today, Jenna.
0:54.7	I am so excited to be here.
0:56.7	Thank you.
0:57.7	So like I said, I discovered you when I was searching for books, when I was doing baby-led weaning
1:04.0	for my son, Ryan, when he was six months, seven months old, and I found your book, Baby-led
1:08.4	feeding.
1:09.5	And I loved it.
1:10.5	It's actually, I think, one of your best-selling books.
1:12.8	And then recently, you came out with a new book called Bare Minimum Dinners, which I also
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