Dawn Winkelmann, a pediatric swallowing specialist and feeding expert at ezpz, talks about the art of self-feeding. She explains how purees play a crucial role in baby-led weaning, debunking the myth that spoons are off-limits. Dawn introduces her innovative ezpz Tiny Spoon, designed for babies to take charge of their feeding. She walks listeners through her three-step spoon technique, discusses developmental milestones in self-feeding, and highlights the importance of utensil design for encouraging independence from a young age.
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Preloaded Spoon Technique Steps
Use a short-handled baby-led spoon filled with food to allow babies to feed themselves independently.
Follow a three-step approach: let baby mouth a dry spoon, guide the spoon hand under hand, and place a preloaded spoon within easy reach.
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Developmental Stages of Spoon Use
Babies must first hold, play with, mouth, and bang spoons before actually self-feeding.
Learning to dip spoons develops around 9 months; scooping skills emerge between 11 and 18 months.
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Katie's Spoon Frustration Story
Katie shared her frustration using spoons with long handles and wide bowls that caused gagging in her twins starting solids.
Dawn created the Tiny Spoon to address these issues and promote safe self-feeding from first bites.
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#64: Yes your baby CAN learn to self-feed using a spoon! You might have heard that baby-led weaning means NOT using purees or a spoon...but that’s not the whole story. Purees are an important texture for babies to master - they’re just not the ONLY texture babies can eat!
In this episode I’m joined by BLW expert Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP. Dawn specializes in pediatric swallowing and she’s the feeding expert for ezpz. Dawn also designed the ezpz Tiny Spoon - the award winning baby-led weaning spoon that is REMARKABLY different than any baby spoon you’ve ever seen before!
You can honor the self-feeding principles of baby-led weaning AND teach your baby to self-feed by spoon using Ms. Dawn’s proven pre-loaded spoon technique. She’s walking us through it step-by-step in this episode all about promoting self-feeding with a spoon!
Listen to this episode to learn:
The exact steps you can take during the first few days of baby-led weaning to help promote your baby’s ability to independently feed from his or her first bites!
Why most of the baby spoons on the market are designed for PARENTS to feed babies and why she developed the TINY SPOON that let’s BABIES be in charge of self-feeding!
How your baby learns to dip and then scoop and then eat independently - Dawn’s walking us through the various spoon-related feeding milestones in infant feeding.
Shownotes for this episode can be found here:
https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/64
Links from this episode:
Check out Dawn’s website with all of her feeding resources at www.msdawnslp.com
Try out Dawn’s baby-led weaning spoon the ezpz Tiny Spoon and get 10% off using code KATIE10 by clicking here.
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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