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The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Baby’s Food with Consumer Reports' James E. Rogers, PhD Jul 11, 2024

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#448: Even if you make your baby’s food, there’s still a risk of plastic chemicals making their way in there too. Dr. James Rogers from Consumer Reports recently tested a bunch of baby foods and formulas for plastic chemicals and the results will surprise you…even if you eat organic.

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What plasticizers are and why they are disruptive to the human body’s endocrine system
How plasticizers get into our food supply…and it’s not just from food storage containers
Which baby foods tested highest for plastic chemicals and how to avoid them moving forward

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https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/448

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Get $10 off first year of Consumer Reports membership when you sign up here (this is not an affiliate link): https://www.cr.org/blw
Consumer Reports - The Plastic Chemicals Hiding in Your Food: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/the-plastic-chemicals-hiding-in-your-food-a7358224781/
Consumer Reports - How to Reduce Exposure to Chemicals https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/how-to-reduce-exposure-to-plastic-in-food-everywhere-else-a9640874767/
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program
Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners

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Which part of the egg contains the potentially allergenic protein: the egg white or the egg yolk?
How to safely prepare eggs so your baby can pick them up and self-feed
Why an egg ladder can help reintroduce eggs if your baby previously reacted to egg

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https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/447

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Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program
Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners

Listen to this episode to learn:

What your baby’s mouth should look like at rest…and what to do if it doesn’t
Why your baby should be learning to chew - and not suck - food
How reliance on processed baby foods can change your baby’s face…and not in a good way

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/446

Links from this episode:

Nicole’s podcast Airway Answers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airway-answers-by-airway-circle/id1604322136
Baby-Led Weaning and Katie Ferraro on Airway Answers podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duLLPzGhDRE
Breathe, Sleep, Thrive: Discover how airway health can unlock your child’s greater health, learning and potential book: https://amzn.to/3vOe6O6
Breathe: The New Science of Lost Art book https://amzn.to/3xPvYIL

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Whether or not your baby is at high risk for peanut allergy
When to start offering peanut protein and how often to reintroduce
3 easy ways to make peanuts safe for your baby to eat once they start solid foods

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https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/445

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Puffworks Baby Peanut Butter Puffs use affiliate code BLWPOD for 15% off at checkout, shop here: https://puffworks.com/discount/BABYLED?redirect=/pages/baby-led
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program
Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners

Listen to this episode to learn:

What you’re unconsciously doing at mealtimes that pressure your baby to eat…and how to stop
How to help your baby succeed at solid food, without doing the feeding for them
Why excessive cheerleading at meals is counterproductive…and what to say instead

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/444

Links from this episode:

Heidi’s Website Thrive by Spectrum Pediatrics https://thrivewithspectrum.com/
Follow Heidi on Instagram @thrivewithspectrum

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The one single thing you can do to lower your baby’s risk of cow’s milk protein allergy (...which is the most common pediatric food allergy)
Why exclusively breastfed babies especially benefit from early introduction of milk foods
How to pick the best type of yogurt for self-feeding and why you can totally skip baby food yogurts

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/443

Links from this episode:

Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program
Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners

Listen to this episode to learn:

What parents accidentally do to compromise growth and how you can avoid this stress
How to interpret a growth chart…and what to do if your baby falls off their growth path
Why Kat uses the term Failure to Thrive vs. Growth Faltering in her program and content

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/442

Links from this episode:

Follow Kat on Instagram @failure.to.thrive.dietitian
Check out Kat’s resources online

Listen to this episode to learn:

Why waiting 3-5 days between new foods can slow down your baby’s progress
How to safely offer 1 (or more) new food(s) per day…and why this is safe
When to sequence the introduction of allergenic foods to observe for reactions

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/441

Links from this episode:

Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program
Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners

Listen to this episode to learn:

Which prenatal vitamins may have more or less nutrients than stated on the Supplement Facts panel
Why there aren’t standardized guidelines about what goes in your prenatal vitamin
How to pick a prenatal vitamin and what the most important B vitamin is to focus on

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/440

Links from this episode:

Helena’s Food Fix newsletter: https://foodfix.co/
GAO Report: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106689
ACOG Nutrition During Pregnancy: https://www.acog.org/womens-health/faqs/nutrition-during-pregnancy .

Listen to this episode to learn:

What the Top 9 allergenic foods are and how you can use real food to introduce them to your baby
What to do if your baby has an allergic reaction to food…and why they are unlikely to die from that
How to safely introduce all of the Top 9 allergenic foods in the first 9 weeks after starting solids

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/439

Links from this episode:

Puffworks Baby peanut and almond puffs for introducing 2 separate allergenic food categories (peanut and treenut) are available for 15% off with affiliate discount code BLWPOD - shop here
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program
Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners

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