Waterstones Baby-led Weaning
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Price: £16.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: The fully updated and revised edition of Baby-led Weaning is a practical and authoritative guide to introducing solid food, enabling your child to grow up a happy and confident eater. It shows parents why baby-led weaning makes sense and gives them the confidence to trust their baby's natural skills and instincts. Filled with practical tips for getting started and the low-down on what to expect, Baby-led Weaning explodes the myth that babies need to be spoon-fed and shows why self-feeding from the start is the healthiest way for your child to develop. Your baby is allowed to decide how much they want to eat, how to eat it and to experiment with everything at their own pace. Baby-led weaning is a common-sense, safe, easy and enjoyable approach to feeding your baby. No more purées and weaning spoons, and no more mealtime battles. Simply let your baby feed himself healthy family food.
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780091923808
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ISBN: 9780091923808
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Author: Bongo McBongo
Rating: 5
Review: This book changed my life. I had always intended to make my own baby food rather than buy it, but it never occurred to me you can skip baby food completely and go straight to real food. Then my friend read this and tried it with her daughter, and i was so impressed I tried it with mine. There is no better way to feed a baby. The premise is this: all a baby needs until about 6 months is milk. After that, if a baby can sit upright, pick up food, and get the food to her mouth, she's ready for real food. It's very safe: the gag reflex is very close to the front of the tongue in small babies (it moves to the back of the the throat around the age of 1), so when they're young is the SAFEST time to introduce solid food, when they will gag and spit it out LONG BEFORE they're in danger of choking. Your baby will be delighted to copy you, eat the food you eat, and join the sociability of meals with the family. She will have loads of fun exploring a much wider range of tastes and textures than baby food would provide (thus helping her to NOT be a picky eater as she grows up), and her fine motor skills will come on leaps and bounds as she masters grasping different food items (pasta is slippery, bananas squish, etc). The comedy that ensues is hilarious. Be prepared for mess galore, learn to laugh at it, and remember it's short-lived. A baby who is allowed to feed herself from the very start will be a much neater eater than her peers in a few months, and will be moving on to cutlerly before you know it. Dining out is a dream, too. My daughter was happy to sit on my lap and help herself to whatever was on my plate. (Obviously I gave some consideration to her when ordering. For instance, I would avoid salad, as she didn't have the molars to chew leaves.) She never fussed, threw food, or demanded "kid food." I cringe when I see parents stuffing spoons of gloop into their baby's mouth. It's a misery for everyone, and totally unnecessary. If your baby is spitting out her puree' slop, and constantly grabbing at the spoon (which you are forever wrestling away from her), then, like most babies, she is telling you she wants control. It's not that babies don't want to eat, it's that most babies don't want to be fed, which is entirely different. In short, I cannot recommend this book enough. If you're nervous about what sorts of food are safest, or how to include your baby in family meals, I also recommend the companion "Baby-led Weaning Cookbook." Full of useful recipes for the whole family that your baby will be delighted to share. (And I swear, I have to connection to the author or publisher. :-D)
Author: A Scot
Rating: 3
Review: I bought this book following the recommendation of a friend who is a huge Baby-led Weaning advocate - she loved this book. There is some great information carried in the book, but I personally feel it would be much better if it was a lot shorter and more positive. I find it a little overly critical of other feeding methods, something which generally frustrates me about being a parent - there is more than one right way and being a parent is hard enough without being guilt tripped into following one recommendation over another (especially when only using anecdotal evidence). I would have felt much warmer to the book had it simply focussed on the positives of baby led weaning rather than finding the need to criticize other method. To me they need stronger and thorough evidence to back up their claims before slighting other approaches. As an example, one section is entitled "better nutrition" - This could have been entitled "good nutrition" and simply say something like "some parents food baby-led weaning helped to encourage their child to have a positive relationship with nutritious food as they grew." However, it quotes "anecdotal evidence" which to me is not strong enough - a lot of this evidence doesn't take into account all factors, eg perhaps the parents who chose to use baby-led weaning are more likely to serve nutritious food anyway etc etc. Just like any political campaign, there can be anecdotal evidence to support whichever method you use - whatever way you choose, as long as your baby is happy and healthy, is the right way for you. However, if you can overlook that side of the book, there is some really useful information from chapter 4 onwards to give you the confidence to do baby-led weaning; and some tips of what you can introduce. I also like the section on "Bribes, Rewards & Punishments". Something missed was a tip a friend gave me - "the rule of thumb is to to cut the food into chunks the size of your thumb." This tip was invaluable. After using the tips the book and my friend provided, it was lovely to see my son explore the texture of broccoli, then cucumber etc etc. I would have rated the book a four had it all been in a positive tone, however I still much prefer the River Cottage Baby & Toddler Book (another advocate of baby-led weaning, but also provides options for parents who might prefer another route).
