Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro

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Adapted Baby-Led Weaning for Feeding Challenges with Jill Rabin, MS, CCC-SLP/L, IBCLC Jan 27, 2022

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#198: Is baby-led weaning unsafe for babies with feeding difficulties? Is it even attainable to successfully transition babies with special needs into solids by using the BLW approach? In this episode pediatric speech pathologist and international board certified lactation consultant Jill Rabin joins me to talk about the adapted baby-led weaning approach that she developed to safely help babies with feeding challenges be successful with the baby-led weaning approach.

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/198

About the Guest:

• Jill developed the adapted baby-led weaning approach in 2010 for those babies who have feeding challenges or special needs.

• Jill frequently works with assisting infants with Down syndrome, preemies, and babies who may have more challenges with feeding, to transition to the breast or to solid foods.

• She is currently co-authoring a book with Gill Rapley, who is the founding philosopher of the baby-led weaning movement and will talk about how baby-led weaning can work from an adaptive standpoint for children with feeding challenges.

Links from this episode:

• Follow Jill Rabin on Instagram @jillrabinablw

• Check out her Website (will be up in the Spring)

• Gigi’s Playhouse

• Chicago Feeding Group Course

• Breastfeeding and Down Syndrome Book on Julia’s Way

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Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS.

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Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN.

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Sick Days & Solid Foods: Do I Stop Trying New Foods When My Baby is Sick? Jan 24, 2022

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#197: Do I stop trying new foods when my baby is sick? Is it safe to offer my baby food if they are sick? In this episode we’re exploring some techniques for managing sick days when you’re also transitioning to solid foods.

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/197

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Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS.

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Rituals for Weaning: Making Your Baby's Mealtimes Memorable with @morningaltars Day Schildkret Jan 20, 2022

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#196: How can you make your baby’s mealtime memorable? Day Schildkret is an internationally renowned artist who has inspired many people around the world to reconnect with nature and creativity through the practice of earth art, ritual, and mindfulness.

In this episode, artist, author, and teacher Day Schildkret talks about the importance of

enjoying and honoring a baby’s transition from milk into baby foods through the practice of mealtime weaning rituals.

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/196

About the Guest:

• Day has taught people from around the world how to create your own ritual using Day’s “ritual recipe”

• Day leads the Behind Morning Altars movement: offers workshops, trainings and public speaking events worldwide

• He is also the author of Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change and the author of Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art and Ritual

Links from this Episode:

• Check out Day Schildkret’s new book out January 2022 Book Hello, Goodbye 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change

• Learn more about Day Schildkret

• Website: Morningaltars.com

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Texture 101: Tips for Trying Trickier Textures with @msdawnslp Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP Jan 17, 2022

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#195: How do you get your baby to eat new textures? What texture of foods can babies safely eat? In this episode baby-led weaning expert Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP and I are discussing tips for trying out trickier textures for your baby and why we don’t want to get stuck on purees!

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/195

About the Guest:

• Dawn & I are teaching a series of free live workshops called “WHAT DO I FEED MY BABY AFTER AVOCADO, BANANA AND SWEET POTATO?” and you can sign up here

• This workshop helps push your baby past the simple starter foods to try out those trickier textures and NOT get stuck at the early eater BLW food phase!

• Everyone on this workshop gets a copy of our 100 FIRST FOODS LIST and you can sign up for this brand new LIVE workshop taught by me and Dawn here.

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Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS.

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Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely.

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If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community!

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BLW Food Size: Why Do Early Eaters Need Big Pieces of Food? with @msdawnslp Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP Jan 13, 2022

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#194: What size do you cut food for baby-led weaning? When is it safe to cut foods smaller for babies? In this episode BLW expert Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP is teaching why we make BLW foods bigger at first and how you can help your baby succeed in self-feeding by cutting foods the right size early on in self-feeding.

About the Guest:

• Dawn & I are teaching a series of free live workshops called “WHAT DO I FEED MY BABY AFTER AVOCADO, BANANA AND SWEET POTATO?” and you can sign up here

• This workshop helps push your baby past the simple starter foods to try out those trickier textures and NOT get stuck at the early eater BLW food phase!

• Everyone on this workshop gets a copy of our 100 FIRST FOODS LIST and you can sign up for this brand new LIVE workshop taught by me and Dawn here.

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Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS.

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Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely.

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If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community!

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Protein: How Much Protein Does My Baby Need? Jan 10, 2022

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#193: Why does protein hold so much POWER over parents?! Most adults eat too much protein and are obsessed with protein for all the wrong reasons…and we do NOT want to project this protein pressure onto our babies! In this episode we are exploring how much protein does your baby REALLY need to be getting from solid foods, what are the good sources of protein foods for babies and how do you know if your baby is eating enough or too much protein.

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/193

Links from this episode:

• Episode 45: How to Balance Your Baby's BLW Plate

• Episode 110: Catch-Up Weight: Why Starting Solids Early Will Not Help Your Baby Gain Weight with Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD

• Episode 127: How Do Vegan Families Introduce Potentially Allergenic Foods? with @plantbasedjuniors Alexandra Caspero, MS, RD and Whitney English, MS, RD

• Research articles mentioned in this episode:

• Koletzko, Berthold et al. “Lower protein in infant formula is associated with lower weight up to age 2 y: a randomized clinical trial.” The American journal of clinical nutrition vol. 89,6 (2009): 1836-45. doi:10.3945/ajcn.2008.27091

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Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS.

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Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely.

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If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive BLW community!

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Best BLW Advice from the Leading Feeding Experts Jan 06, 2022

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#192: When is my baby ready to start baby-led weaning? What does an allergic reaction to food look like? Why are pouches bad for babies? …in this episode I’m including some of the best baby-led weaning advice from the leading feeding experts who were featured on the podcast in the last year. Listen in to learn about the best first foods for babies to eat, why you don’t need to wait 3-5 days between trying new foods and what you can do if your baby has eczema to help reduce food allergy risk.

Listen to this episode to learn:

How do you know when a baby is ready to start solid foods? Explained by Gill Rapley, founding philosopher of the baby-led weaning movement and co-author of the original baby-led weaning book
What is baby-led weaning and why is it better than spoon feeding? …also explained by Gill Rapley
Should I use food to help my small baby with catch up weight? Covered by Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD specialist in weight and growth charts, growth faltering and food allergies

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast /192

Links from this episode:

The following links are titles to the full episodes with each baby-led weaning expert covered in this episode:

• 100 - The History of BLW with its Founding Philosopher Gill Rapley, PhD (Part 1)

• 102 - The Future of BLW with its Founding Philosopher Gill Rapley, PhD (Part 2)

• 110 - Catch-Up Weight: Why Starting Solids Early Will Not Help Your Baby Gain Weight with Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD

• 124 - Using an Egg Ladder for Babies with Egg Allergy with Carina Venter, PhD, RD

• 125 - Why are False Positive Results in Food Allergy Testing so Common? with David Stukus, MD

• 129 - Exploring the Eczema & Food Allergy Risk Link with Rebecca Hartman, MD, MPH

• 140 - National Baby-Led Weaning Day: It's a Thing with Gill Rapley, PhD

• 149 - Pouches: Why Your Baby Doesn't Need to Suck Pureed Food Out of Pouches with @msdawnslp Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP

• 160 - Why White Rice Cereal Should Not Be Your Baby's First Food with Alan Greene, MD

• 170 - Sensory 101: What Motivates Babies to Eat? with Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, MEd

• 180 - Food Allergy FAQ with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MP H

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Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS.

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Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely.

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12 Month Old Babies: Sample BLW Feeding Schedule Dec 29, 2021

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#191 How much food should a 1-year-old baby eat? Much of baby-led weaning is “practicing” for where we want baby to be when he or she turns 12 months, but what feeding milestones and accomplishments do we want to achieve by the time baby turns 1? In this episode we’re exploring sample BLW feeding schedules for babies at 12 months of age.

Listen to this episode to learn:

1. What feeding milestones we want baby to have accomplished by 12 months of age…and what to do if you’re not quite there yet

2. How baby’s rate of growth slows close to the 1 year mark and why you shouldn’t be surprised if your baby starts eating a little less

3. Why snacks and too much milk are the primary saboteurs of the toddler diet…and what you can do to combat them!

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/191

Links from this episode:

• Ezpz is the company that makes baby and toddler feeding gear. When baby turns 12 months it’s time to size up to their Mini line: the Mini Utensils (contains a fork, no fork milestone before 12 months of age) and the Mini Cup (bigger size for toddlers compared to their baby Tiny Cup). My ezpz affiliate discount code is KATIE10 and you can click here to shop.

Listen to this episode to learn:

How things have changed in the infant feeding space since Arlene had her first baby 14 years ago
Why she decided to give baby-led weaning a chance this time around
What foods she is growing on her home farm that she is excited to see Jacob try for the first time

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/190

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

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Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS.

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Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely.

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10-11 Months Old Babies: Sample BLW Schedule Dec 22, 2021

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#189: How often should babies who are 10-11 months old eat solid foods? Should they be allowed to feel some “casual hunger”, do we drop another milk feed? What about transitioning off of the bottle and onto the open cup. In this episode I am joined by TWENTY moms of babies 10-11 months old who are graciously sharing their schedule and what’s going on with their older babies…this is a little bit of a longer episode, but hoping you can learn from some of their shared experiences about feeding babies who are 10-11 months old.

Listen to this episode to learn:

How phase 3 of baby-led weaning (the 3rd 8 week session) changes for babies who are 10-11 months old and what to expect in the way of intake, scheduling solid foods, dropping milk feeds and moving towards toddlerhood
Why snacks can be a big saboteur of the older infant’s diet and how to be assertive in making between meal milk your baby’s snack so they can be more engaged at mealtime
What to expect as baby nears the 1 year mark: allergenic food trials, open cup practice, continuing to offer variety and trickier textures for older babies

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/189

Links from This Episode:

Ezpz is the company that makes the silicone suction mats (mini mat for BLW) and the BLW spoons (Tiny Spoon) and BLW open cups (Tiny Cup). My ezpz affiliate discount code is KATIE10 and you can click here to shop.
Puffworks Baby is the company that makes baby peanut butter puffs and almond baby puffs, great for introducing 2 separate allergenic food categories: peanut and tree nuts. My Puffworks affiliate discount code is BABYLED and you can click here to shop.
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