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Introducing solids: foods to avoid

October 9, 2010

Despite the recent changes in recommendations around introducing potentially allergenic foods into the infant diet, there still remains a number of foods that need to be avoided by infants under the age of 12 months. These include: Honey Honey must not be given to infants under the age of 12 months. Honey can be infected [...]

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Baby Oatmeal (and success with a preloaded spoon)

September 10, 2010

If only all foods were able to be cut into a ‘chip’ shape then Baby Led Weaning would be a relatively simple and straightforward process. As food doesn’t work like this unfortunately, the question about how to offer your baby ‘sloppy’ foods like yogurt or porridge, is often asked. About a month ago, I tried [...]

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Baked Sweet Potato Fries

August 4, 2010

I’ve been offering my boy batons of steamed sweet potato for a few weeks now and given that he is chowing down on most things I give him these days, I thought it was time to become a bit more adventurous with food preparation and try something other than steamed vegetables. Given that sweet potato [...]

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What is Baby Led Weaning?

July 28, 2010

photo credit: Kate Ferrara When people find out that I have adopted a baby led approach to introducing solids to my boy, the first thing I am often asked is, “what is baby led weaning?” I have met only a handful of mothers who know what Baby-Led Weaning is and an even smaller few who are [...]

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Baby loves Apples

July 7, 2010

photo credit: Abhijit Tembhekar Apples are another of those foods that is commonly cited as being perfect for babies starting on solids as they are easy to prepare and easy for little tummies to digest. Why do some babies love apples so much? It is most likely because apples are high in natural sugars and [...]

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The importance of following your baby’s cues

July 5, 2010

photo credit: missmac Regardless of whether you take a more traditional approach to weaning (ie. gradual progression of increasingly complex textures) or more of a baby led weaning approach to introducing solids, a major consideration is listening, watching and responding to your baby. I’ve been reading with great interest the whole purees vs. baby led [...]

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What’s on the menu? Butternut squash!

June 27, 2010

photo credit: VancityAllie I persisted with rice cereal for 5 days and with minimal interest from my boy, I decided to give Baby Led Weaning a go and offer the boy some butternut squash instead. What a difference that made! He had complete control. He could pick up, play with, squash, taste and munch on [...]

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Milk Intake and Babies

May 14, 2010

photo credit: fikirbaz My boy recently went through a major growth spurt that happened to coincide with his reaching 4 months of age. My super sleeper (who had dropped his early morning feed at 8 weeks) was waking up in the early hours of the morning again, demanding to be fed and had an appetite [...]

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To puree or not to puree?

May 5, 2010

photo credit: jules:stonesoup This is the question I have been grappling with for the last week. Whether or not to introduce my son to food via the traditional ‘stages’ of introducing solids (purees, lumps, mashed, table foods) or to let him lead the way and feed himself from the get go. I’ve got so bogged [...]

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