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Baby-led Weaning

Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food
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Baby-led Weaning by Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett is a parenting guide that introduces an alternative approach to starting babies on solid foods. Instead of traditional spoon-feeding, the book advocates letting infants explore self-feeding with finger foods, encouraging them to develop independence and explore a range of textures and tastes. It's an empowering resource for parents looking to support their child's natural eating instincts and improve mealtime experiences.
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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in a natural approach to introducing your baby to solid foods that encourages self-feeding and independence. It's ideal for parents aiming to foster healthy eating habits and allow their little ones to explore different textures and tastes at their own pace.

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Baby-led Weaning

The fully updated and revised edition of Baby-led Weaning is a practical and authoritative guide to introducing solid food, enabling your child to grow up a happy and confident eater.

Everything you need to know about baby-led weaning - the latest buzz in parenting circles - from leading health visitor Gill Rapley

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Contrary to popular belief, there is no research that supports the current mainstream view that babies should be weaned by being spoon-fed purees. Self-feeding allows babies to use their natural abilities to explore taste, texture, colour, and smell. It encourages independence and confidence by allowing them to experiment with foods at their own pace and helps to develop hand-eye coordination and chewing.

Baby-led Weaning is a practical and authoritative guide to introducing solid food, enabling your child to grow up a happy and confident eater. It shows parents why baby-led weaning makes sense and gives them the confidence to trust their baby's natural skills and instincts.

With practical tips for getting started and the low-down on what to expect, Baby-led Weaning explodes the myth that babies need to be spoon-fed and shows why self-feeding from the start is the healthiest way for your child to develop. Your baby is allowed to decide how much he wants to eat, how to eat it, and to experiment with everything at his own pace.

Baby-led weaning is a common-sense, safe, easy, and enjoyable approach to feeding your baby. No more purees and weaning spoons, and no more mealtime battles. Simply let your baby feed himself healthy family food.

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The book by Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett is praised for promoting a common-sense approach to infant feeding by allowing babies to exercise control over their diets. It is noted for potentially simplifying the weaning process, making life easier for parents. Experts and reviewers observe children benefiting from choosing their own food and eating independently at their own pace, highlighting significant advantages.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780091923808

Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 November 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vermilion

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 136.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 258g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Gill Rapley is the world authority on baby-led weaning. She worked as a health visitor for 20 years and has also been a midwife and breastfeeding counsellor. Tracey Murkett is a freelance writer who used the baby-led weaning approach to introduce solid food to her own child.

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