Perspectives on feeding: Baby-led weaning

My New Life

Kate Garlinge

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4.7 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As co-founder of the organic baby food company Happy Family, host Jessica Rolph has invested a lot of energy trying to get the right nutrients into her kids. One of her children’s favorite first foods was sardines, and fast forward a few years, Jessica was surprised to see a post on the hugely popular Solid Starts recommending sardines as a first food.

Solid Starts promotes baby-led weaning, or finger-foods first. CEO Jenny Best joins Jessica on today’s episode to share her perspective on when to start your baby on solid foods and how best to do it.

Key Takeaways:

[1:40] What is baby-led weaning?

[2:24] Jenny talks about the advantages of the baby-led weaning approach.

[7:35] Giving children a front seat in their feeding experience.

[9:16] Challenges that come with baby-led weaning.

[13:47] How did Jenny first expose her twins to solids?

[14:51] Jenny examines fears around allergens.

[18:08] How should we think about the ingestion of food in those first few months of feeding?

[22:23] Jenny shares the recommended ages for starting baby-led weaning and starting solid foods in general.

[25:29] Jessica revisits some of the highlights of her conversation with Jenny Best.

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0:00.0	Parenthood is a time of so much change for you and your baby.
0:13.8	A little reliable information can go a long way towards making this new life a good life.
0:20.0	I'm Jessica Rolfe and this is my new life,
0:24.1	a love every podcast. While the science aligns on what's healthy for a baby's brain development,
0:30.1	when it comes to how to care for our babies, there's a seemingly endless supply of competing
0:34.9	perspectives. Parents are swimming in advice on sleep, feeding,
0:39.8	parenting philosophies. In this season of the podcast, we aim to provide a variety of curated
0:46.1	perspectives so you can make informed choices for your family. As the co-founder of an organic baby food company, I invested a lot of energy trying to get
0:58.3	nutrients into my kids. One of Leland's favorite first foods was sardines. Babies and sardines
1:05.4	are a messy combo. Bones, skin, mush, you get the idea. I felt like an outlier. But fast forward a few years,
1:14.5	and I saw a post on the hugely popular Solid Starts Instagram account, recommending sardines
1:20.1	as a first food. Solid Starts promotes baby lead weaning or finger foods first. And I am thrilled to
1:27.3	sit down with founder Jenny Best on this
1:29.3	episode. Hello, Jenny. It's so great to have you with us. Thank you so much for having me.
1:35.5	So for listeners who aren't familiar with this method, what is baby lead weaning in a nutshell?
1:41.3	Yeah. So the name kind of makes it confusing and more confusing than it needs to be,
1:46.1	but baby lead waning is just starting solids with finger food. So we have a hashtag at Solid
1:52.1	Starts called Finger Food First. And that's my attempt to just make this easier to wrap,
1:57.4	you know, our minds around. But it's just starting solids with a priority on self-feeding
2:02.2	and finger foods. So instead of the traditional pouch or puree and spoon feeding, offering baby a
2:09.3	variety of finger foods for them to pick up themselves, put it in their mouth, and munch on.
2:14.4	I've heard your personal story before and I'd love for everyone else to hear it and also
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