I’m a Registered Dietitian, college nutrition professor and mom of seven who specializes in infant feeding and baby-led weaning. Like many parents, I struggled with spoon-feeding my oldest until I discovered baby-led weaning - a natural, hands-on approach that lets your baby build a foundational love of food. Starting solid foods can be stressful, but I’ll help cut through the noise with a proven strategy for helping babies master baby-led weaning.
Baby not sitting yet? Watch this before you start solid foods
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Hi Reader, I’ve been working with a wonderful assistant named Jedi in the baby-led weaning world for a few years now, and she just had her first baby. Jedi helps us with tons of content and she probably knows more than most people about starting solid foods safely… …but like most new moms - Jedi was worried when her baby wasn’t sitting on his own RIGHT at the 6 month mark - does that mean he can’t eat yet? 😱 If you’re stressing about your baby not sitting by 6 months of age, I just did a new video with some sitting exercises you can do BEFORE your baby is ready to start solid foods. Sitting ExerciseThere’s a whole PRE-FEEDING SECTION inside of my program Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro, and this video has clips from the program if you want to check it out.
For those of you still on the fence about whether your baby is really ready to handle finger foods or not yet - I hope you like this new video. |
Katie Ferraro, RDN, MPH | Baby-Led Weaning
I’m a Registered Dietitian, college nutrition professor and mom of seven who specializes in infant feeding and baby-led weaning. Like many parents, I struggled with spoon-feeding my oldest until I discovered baby-led weaning - a natural, hands-on approach that lets your baby build a foundational love of food. Starting solid foods can be stressful, but I’ll help cut through the noise with a proven strategy for helping babies master baby-led weaning.
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