The reason why we don't see an increased risk of choking with baby led weaning over traditional feeding is because babies are learning to chew and swallow with baby led weaning. It's not like they're just going straight for the let's swallow and go for it that gag reflex. It's really what's protecting them.

So if they put food in their mouth and they try to swallow it, their tongue will literally this is way more duties area, but I'm just speaking for her. The tongue will literally propel for it and shoot that food back out. That's a very very crude way of saying it.

But essentially it it it keeps that food from going me further back and that's why it's a reflex. It's automatic.

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Hey guys happy Monday. This week I have a cool episode for you guys. Have you guys heard of feeding littles on Instagram. If your baby is close to six months old or somewhere around there or you have any issues with feeding or having questions about feeding, you probably know who feeding littles is.

They've got over a million followers on Instagram and their page is truly amazing. I've been following them for a while. I love the Judy Reels. And if you know what I'm talking about when I say Judy Reels, you know what I'm talking about.

So yeah I collaborated with feeding littles this week and had them on the podcast to talk to us about starting solids because I know that starting solids is a very overwhelming task.

Press feeding and feeding your child is a very overwhelming task. But for some reason, you know, once you start thinking about actually feeding them food, it's like, I've been just doing formula and or breast milk for months and months and months and now I have to add something else to my plate like what?

So there's obviously always a lot of questions and just a lot of information that comes along with starting solids.

Personally, I did do baby blood winning with Ryland and I loved it. I thought it was a really really great way to get my older kiddo involved. And for me not to be sitting there just spoon feeding him like I could make his plate. I could make my older ones plate, set them both down and eat food myself with him too.

So feeding littles is going to talk to us all about baby blood winning today and just starting solids in general, some things to look for, signs of readiness, what to do if you're having problems because we definitely had problems to with Ryland and lots of other great stuff.

I know you guys are going to totally love this episode and this was a really popular popular request that I got to do. So let's dive right in.

This week's podcast episode was brought to you guys by feeding littles who is actually the guest on this podcast episode. They have a really awesome course that I thought you guys would really really love. So I wanted to share a little bit about it.

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All right. And now let's get into Megan and Judy's episode.

Hi Megan and Judy. Welcome to the Mommy Labor Nurse podcast. Thank you guys so much for being here. I'm so excited because I've been following you guys for a long time.

And I just I'm a little bit freaking out because I am excited that I'm meeting you guys like not in person, but you know, I'm like seeing your faces and talking to you. So thank you guys for being here. Can you guys tell our listeners who you guys are and a little bit about yourselves.

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