Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro

#384: What kind of lactation or breastfeeding support did you get BEFORE your baby was born? How about after? Did you have to pay for it or did your insurance? In this episode Andrea Ippolito from @simplifedbaby explains how our current baby feeding system is broken, and what continual help from a lactation specialist can do to improve breastfeeding rates, help maternal mental health, and create a more positive foray into feeding for new parents.🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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.💯 💯 💯 💯 💯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 your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN.👀 👀 👀 👀 👀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.Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/384🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧Other podcast episodes related to this topic:Episode 98 - Breastfeeding + Scheduling Solid Foods with @milkymamallc Krystal Duhaney, RN, IBCLCEpisode 150 - Breastfeeding + BLW: How to Succeed at Both Simultaneously with Heather Dvorak, IBCLC🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#383: If your family eats animal foods then meats like beef are a good idea to incorporate into the weaning diet. Beef provides unique nutrition, taste and texture opportunities and in this episode I’ll share a number of ways to make beef safe for babies, including my favorite cuts of beef - and the main type of beef I recommend that you avoid for early eaters.Listen to this episode to learn: Which nutrients beef contains that can be challenging to find in plant foods How to properly prepare soft, shreddable strips of beef that babies can eat When to start offering beef and approximations on how much beef your baby can eat Shownotes for this episode can be found here:https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/383Links 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://workshop.babyledweaning.co   Other Episodes Related to this Topic Episode 153 - Zinc: How to Get Enough Zinc with Baby-Led Weaning Foods Episode 177 - Red Meat Your Baby Can Safely Eat 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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.💯 💯 💯 💯 💯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.👀 👀 👀 👀 👀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.🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#382: Offering food to your baby food is the only way to know if they’re allergic to it…but that doesn’t mean it’s not scary. In this episode pediatrician and food allergy practitioner and researcher Tina Sindher, MD is going to teach some basic tips for introducing allergenic foods as a means to help reduce the risk of food allergy in your baby.🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧Other podcast episodes related to this topic you might enjoy are:Episode 380 - Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPHEpisode 366 - Oral Immunotherapy: Helping Babies Become Less Reactive to Allergenic Foods with David Stukus, MDEpisode 286 - Is My Baby Dairy Intolerant? Food Protein Induced Allergic Proctocolitis (FPIAP) with Marion Groetch, MS, RDNEpisode 368 - Using a Milk Ladder for Babies with Dairy Allergy with Carina Venter, PhD, RD🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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.💯 💯 💯 💯 💯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 your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN.👀 👀 👀 👀 👀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.Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/382🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#381: If your baby goes to daycare and you’re starting solid foods, you’re probably wondering, “When do these 2 things link up? When is it ok to start sending finger foods to daycare?” In this episode, new mom - Yesenia Jacobo is sharing her own experience doing baby-led weaning with her daughter Sophia and how and when they decided to start sending finger foods to daycare.Download the free feeding guide: DAYCARE + BABY-LED WEANING: How to be a baby-led weaning advocate at daycare at https://babyledweaning.co/resources. Follow the same 100 FIRST FOODS DAILY MEAL PLAN that Yesenia and Sophia are doing. It’s inside the BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO program at https://babyledweaning.co/program.🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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.💯 💯 💯 💯 💯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.👀 👀 👀 👀 👀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.Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/381🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧Other podcast episodes related to this topic:Episode 307 - Doing BLW When Someone Else Helps Watch Your BabyEpisode 265 - BLW at Daycare: How These Parents Made it WorkEpisode 18 - Daycare: How Can I Get Caregivers on Board with Baby-Led Weaning🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#380: When you were at your 4 or 6 month well check with your baby, did your pediatrician mention the importance of introducing peanut early and often? In this episode pediatrician and researcher Dr. Ruchi Gupta is talking about why only 13% of parents and caregivers are aware of the recommendations to introduce peanuts to babies early and often.From her unique vantage point as one of the most prolific researchers and foremost experts in pediatric food allergy - plus the mom of a child with food allergy, Dr. Gupta will help us understand the research that supports early allergenic food introduction guidelines, why the messages aren’t getting shared by pediatricians to parents and a little history lesson into just how dramatically allergenic food introduction in infants has changed over the last 20 years.Read Dr. Gupta’s book Food Without Fear.🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱 🌱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.💯 💯 💯 💯 💯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 your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN.👀 👀 👀 👀 👀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.Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/380🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧Other podcast episodes related to this topic:Episode 180 - Food Allergy FAQ with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#379: Which chairs are the best for feeding babies on the go? In this episode I’m sharing about 2 of my favorite portable high chair, which also work in a pinch if your current high chair at home isn’t cutting it. These 2 portable high chairs are durable and affordable and I think you’ll be a fan too!Here are links to my 2 favorite portable high chairs (these are affiliate links): https://amzn.to/3l896tm and https://amzn.to/32ernwj.🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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.💯 💯 💯 💯 💯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 your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN.👀 👀 👀 👀 👀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.Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/379🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#378: Sensory enjoyment, sensory processing, sensory challenges…what emotions or feelings do these terms conjure up as you’re introducing new foods to your baby? Karen Dilfer, MS, OTR/L is a feeding therapist who helps children with motor, sensory and mealtime challenges. She’s talking about why some children react differently to sensory inputs, how this can affect mealtime progress and how to promote sensory enjoyment with your baby.🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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.💯 💯 💯 💯 💯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 your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN.👀 👀 👀 👀 👀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.Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/378🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧Other podcast episodes related to this topic:Episode 170 - Sensory 101: What Motivates Babies to Eat? with Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, MEd🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#377: Is your high chair too big for your baby right now? Don’t throw the baby out with the high chair just yet…we can fix that chair and make it a safe seat where your baby can eat. In this episode we’re looking at safe high chair positioning and a few simple steps you can do to modify your high chair in order to reduce the risk of choking.My favorite high chair is the Stokke Tripp Trapp and you can check it out here (this is an affiliate link): https://amzn.to/3X8iFM4🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧Other podcast episodes related to this topic:Episode 7 - Why Your Baby’s High Chair Needs a FootrestEpisode 92 - How to Choose a Safe Seat for Your Baby to Eat with Kirsti VandraasEpisode 172 - High Chair Positioning: Reduce Choking Risk Using This One Simple Move with Jeff Durkee of Nomi High Chair🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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.💯 💯 💯 💯 💯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 your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN.👀 👀 👀 👀 👀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.Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/377🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#376: If you suspect your baby is sensitive to food, is it worth your time and money to explore food sensitivity testing? In this episode, noted pediatrician and allergist David Stukus, MD explains why and how food sensitivity tests do NOT work…and what (if anything) you should be testing for at all with regards to your baby’s ability to tolerate food.Follow Dr. Stukus on Instagram @allergykidsdoc. 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧Here are previous episode with Dr. Stukus that you might also enjoy:Episode 227 - When Does the Food Allergy Prevention Window Close? with @allergykidsdoc David Stukus, MD Episode 125 - Why are False Positive Results in Food Allergy Testing so Common? with David Stukus, MD Episode 366 - Oral Immunotherapy: Helping Babies Become Less Reactive to Allergenic Foods with David Stukus, MD 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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.💯 💯 💯 💯 💯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 your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN.👀 👀 👀 👀 👀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.Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/376🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧Other podcast episodes related to this topic:Dr. Stukus on the Unbiased Science podcast: https://www.unbiasedscipod.com/episodes/food-allergy-the-real-dill-food-sensitivity-not-eggs-actly 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#375: Will my baby get enough iron from food if we don’t eat meat? In this episode we’re exploring plant based sources of iron that babies can safely eat, including examples of starchy foods and plant proteins…as well as the best source of iron that also happens to be an allergenic food your baby can begin enjoying today!🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧 🎧Other podcast episodes related to this topic:Episode 263 - Iron Drops: Does My Baby Need Iron Supplements? Episode 169 - Iron: Does My Baby Really Need to Eat 11mg Iron Per Day? Episode 137 - Iron: Can My Baby Get Enough Iron from Baby-Led Weaning Foods? Episode 21 - 3 Easy Ways to Boost Your Baby's Iron Absorption 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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.💯 💯 💯 💯 💯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 your first 100 days’ meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN.👀 👀 👀 👀 👀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.Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/375🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices