Gill Rapley Tracey Murkett Baby-led Weaning. Helping your Baby to Love Good FoodLondon: Vermilion2008. £10.99 pp. 256 ISBN 978 0 09192380 8

Baby-Led Weaning: The Evidence to Date

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Infants are traditionally introduced to solid foods using spoon-feeding of specially prepared infant foods. RECENT FINDINGS However, over the last 10-15 years, an alternative approach termed 'baby-led weaning' has grown in popularity. This approach involves allowing infants to self-feed family foods, encouraging the infant to set the pace and intake of the meal. Proponents o...

Helping your baby with torticollis.

Torticollis is another name for “twisted neck.” It sounds like “tōr’ti-kol’is” when you say it out loud. Sometimes babies are born with their necks twisted more to one side than the other. Other times this can happen after birth. In either case, the neck muscle on one side is tighter or shorter than usual. (It is not a bone problem. Your baby’s bones are normal.) We don’t really know for sure w...

Experiences of baby-led weaning: trust, control and renegotiation.

Baby-led weaning (BLW) is an approach to introducing solid foods that relies on the presence of self-feeding skills and is increasing in popularity in the UK and New Zealand. This study aimed to investigate the reported experiences and feelings of mothers using a BLW approach in order to better understand the experiences of the mother and infant, the benefits and challenges of the approach, and...

Mothering Your Unborn Baby

Development and pilot testing of Baby-Led Introduction to SolidS - a version of Baby-Led Weaning modified to address concerns about iron deficiency, growth faltering and choking

BACKGROUND In Baby-Led Weaning (BLW), infants are offered 'finger' foods from the start of the complementary feeding period instead of being spoon-fed. Healthcare professionals have expressed concerns about adequacy of iron and energy intake, and about choking, for infants following Baby-Led Weaning. METHODS We developed a modified version of BLW, Baby-Led Introduction to SolidS (BLISS), to a...