Remember those glass jars of baby food from your childhood? Your kids might find them as foreign as a cassette tape. Today’s parents are skipping prepackaged jars of purées in favor of steaming and ...

Interested in baby-led weaning? Experts recommend starting with foods like butternut squash, banana, avocado, chicken, broccoli, scrambled egg, apple, sweet potato ...

Baby-led weaning (BLW) is an approach to introducing solid foods that focuses on a baby’s choices and allows them to choose what they eat. Soft, easily-chewable whole foods and thin sticks or harder ...

Baby-led weaning provides similar calories to pureed foods and may offer advantages in growth, according to a new study. The popular parenting method of baby-led weaning, where babies are given whole, ...

When Marina Chaparro's baby was 6 months old, she felt that her daughter was ready to start eating solid foods. But when Chaparro offered some to her, "she would not open her mouth. Wouldn't even pick ...

A new study suggests that baby-led weaning provides ample calories for growth and development. Matzeller shows two age-appropriate methods of preparing food to follow baby-led weaning. Chicago (June ...

I am not a new mom, but I recently felt like one. After spoon-feeding three babies baby food, I heard about a new trend called baby-led weaning from both my pediatrician and a younger mom friend whose ...

For decades, this was the widely accepted way to feed a baby: Sit them in a high chair, pop open a jar of mushy pureed peas, scoop some onto a tiny spoon, make an “open wide” face, and—whoosh—make it ...

Forget purees and let your baby feed herself. What is it? Baby-led feeding means forgetting purees and spoons, and simply letting your baby feed herself. The World Health Organization recommends ...