Daycare: How Can I Get Caregivers on Board with Baby-Led Weaning?

Mar 6, 2025

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#18: How do you do baby-led weaning if your baby goes to daycare? Daycare might say they only do purees, or they won’t offer finger foods. In this episode I share effective strategies for helping your daycare or childcare provider understand baby-led weaning and how and why your baby can safely self-feed even when they are away from home.

Listen to this episode to learn:

1. How to talk to your daycare about baby-led weaning…even if they say they “don’t do it”

2. What to cover in your pre-feeding daycare meeting…and how you SHOW them this works

3. Which foods to send to daycare and which other ones you do at home instead

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/18

Links from This Episode:

• Download the free feeding guide Daycare: How to Be a Baby-Led Weaning Advocate at daycare here: https://babyledweaning.co/resources

• CPR: Take this online infant refresher CPR course and use code KATIE10 for an extra $10 off: https://courses.thrivetraininginstitute.com/pages/babyledweanteam

• ezpz: Get all the ezpz feeding gear you’ll be sending with food to daycare and use code KATIE10 for 10% off at ezpzfun.com

• 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