Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro

#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/195About 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. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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

#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. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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

#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/193Links 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🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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

#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/192Links 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, MPH🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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 or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#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/191Links 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.Other episodes related to this topic: • Episode 35: Snacks: Why Early Eaters Don't Need Snacks • Episode 40: 6 Reasons to Skip the Sippy Cup with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP • Episode 113: Transitioning to Cow's Milk: How Do I Do This? • Episode 139: My BLW Baby at 12 Months Old: What Comes Next?🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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 or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#190 - Can you imagine an 8 ½ year gap between your 3rd and 4th babies? My friend Arlene Peck did just that…and as soon as she found out she was pregnant, Arlene 100% on board wanting to do baby-led weaning. Now Jacob is 6 months old, sitting on his own and she’s about to start his 100 FIRST FOODS with baby-led weaning journey. Listen in as we learn from a mom who did not do BLW with her first 3, but is sharing her before and after concerns, comments and insight during day 1 of baby-led weaning with her 4th baby Jacob. 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/190Links 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 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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 or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#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/189Links 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 Other Episodes Related to This Topic: Episode 35: Snacks: Why Early Eaters Don't Need Snacks Episode 42: Daycare: How To Be An Advocate for Baby-Led Weaning with Poppy Duhnke Episode 40: 6 Reasons to Skip the Sippy Cup with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP Episode 101 Straw Cup vs. Open Cups: Which Comes First? with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP Episode 183 Bread: When Can Babies Safely Eat Bread? 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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 or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#188: Is your breastmilk the same as my breastmilk? What if my breastmilk is lacking in nutrients that are compromising my baby’s growth? And can I measure the quality of my breastmilk? These are questions that Dr. Stephanie Canale wondered as a new mom and is now working to answer through her work as the founder of Lactation Lab.In this episode Dr. Canale is explaining her breastmilk testing technology and services that are helping moms get a more clear understanding of the quality of their breastmilk and how that impacts their baby’s health.Listen to this episode to learn: How variations in mom’s diet can impact breastmilk and in turn, baby’s growth and development Why we should be questioning the age-old assumption that all human breastmilk contains equivalent amounts and levels of nutrients What changes mom can make in her diet (with food, not supplements) if her breastmilk testing results indicate deficiencies Shownotes for this episode can be found here:https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/188Links from This Episode:  Lactation Lab website: https://lactationlab.com/ Lactation Lab on Instagram @lactationlab 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 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱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 or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover the ins and outs of feeding babies aged 8-9 months as moms share their baby-led weaning journeys. Learn why this phase is crucial for self-feeding, and how to gauge when to drop a milk feed. Explore why timing and diversity in food options matter, and get practical insights on adapting feeding schedules to encourage your little one’s interest in solids. Tune in for real experiences and tips to help your baby thrive during this exciting mealtime transition!

#186: How bad is it if you don’t eat the same food your baby eats? Are you doing irreparable baby-led weaning damage if you don’t want to or can’t model eating BLW foods with your baby? Registered Dietitian Katelynn Sasaki is joining me on the podcast to break down a few scenarios where you might not want to or can’t eat the same foods as your baby, and what that means (and doesn’t mean) for your baby’s self-feeding success.Listen to this episode to learn: The benefits of modeling self-feeding for your baby...but why it’s also not the end of the world if you can’t swing this Situations where you can’t or might not be able to eat what your baby eats, including medical, child-care, personal preference or picky eating issues...it’s all ok! Shownotes for this episode can be found here:https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/186Links 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 Other Episodes Related to This Topic:  Ep 72 How to Create a Pressure-Free Feeding Environment with Jessica Setnick, MS, RD, CEDRD-S Ep 174 Fostering Food Neutrality from Baby's First Bites with @raisingbodypositivekids Riley Peterson, 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 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 or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices