Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro

By Katie FerraroHealth & Fitness Nutrition Parenting Kids & Family

Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro episodes

March 10, 2022 How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Part I with Sumner Brooks, MPH, RD, CEDRD
#210: What is intuitive eating? And how can I raise my baby to be an intuitive eater? Finding a balance between offering a variety of foods and the necessary nutrition is an important key to creating a healthy relationship between a baby and food.
This is a two-part interview series with the co-authors of the book ‘How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence’. In this episode co-author and registered dietitian Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, CEDRD defines what intuitive eating is and how infants are naturally born as intuitive eaters. She also discusses the importance of allowing our babies to develop their curiosity for trying new foods through feeling, touching, and experiencing food without the need to “push” them to do so.

Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/210

About the Guest:
• Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, CEDRD is a registered dietitian and mom of two. She is an advocate for intuitive eating and co-author for the book How to Raise an Intuitive Eater.
• Sumner has a strong background in eating disorders and has worked as an outpatient Dietitian and counselor with disordered eating clients for over 10 years.
• She is the founder of Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian Professionals (EDRDPRO) organization which helps support and educate fellow dietitians and other nutrition professionals about eating disorders and weight-inclusive approaches to intuitive eating.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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24 min
March 07, 2022 Fruit Vacation: How to Help Babies Who Overly Favor Fruit
#209: Ever been on a fruit vacation?...Well, it’s probably not what you think but if you are worried that your baby might be eating too much fruit, then taking a fruit vacation may just be a solution. In this episode I will talk about some tips on what to do when your baby is favoring fruit over other foods and how to effectively balance your baby’s plate for baby-led weaning.

Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/209
Other Episodes related to this topic:
• Episode 23 “Will Offering Fruit Before Vegetables Make Your Baby Crave Sweet Foods”
• Episode 45 “How to Balance Your Baby's BLW Plate”
• Episode 133 “Don’t Drip Food: How to Pre-Portion for Baby-Led Weaning”
• Episode 155 “Bitter Vegetables: How to Safely Offer Bitter Vegetables for Baby-Led Weaning”
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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.

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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.

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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.

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17 min
March 03, 2022Heavy Metals in Baby Food with @consumerreports James E. Rogers, PhD
#208: Does baby food really contain heavy metals that are toxic for my baby? Well according to the tests that Consumer Reports conducted on fifty nationally distributed packaged baby and toddler foods, it definitely does! In this episode we are joined by James E. Rogers PhD, he is the Director of Food Safety Research and Testing at Consumer Reports who will be talking about how the heavy metals in baby food study was conducted, why they chose the tested baby foods, what the tests found and some recommendations for parents who are considering some of these products for their babies.

Other Episode Related to this Topic
Episode 31 “Fish: How to Introduce Your Baby to this Potentially Allergenic Food”
Episode 99 “Are Organic Foods Better for My Baby?”
Episode 160 “Why White Rice Cereal Should Not Be Your Baby's First Food with Alan Greene, MD”
Links from Episode
Get $10 off first year of Consumer Reports membership when you sign up here (this is not an affiliate link): https://www.cr.org/blw

Get your copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS list on Katie’s free BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS workshop: https://babyledweaning.co/workshop

Follow @babyledweanteam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/babyledweanteam/

Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/208

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37 min
February 28, 2022 5 BLW Sauce Recipes to Make Swallowing Safer
#207: How can I make my baby’s food safer for baby-led weaning? Dry foods often increase choking risks for babies but one way to make swallowing safer is by adding dippers, toppers, or sauces to add more moisture to foods and help baby swallow easier. In this episode, I will be talking about ways to make foods safer for babies and sharing a free download with 5 low-sodium sauce recipes that I created for BLW that will have your baby safely swallowing in no time!

Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/207

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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.

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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.

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14 min
February 24, 2022 Stay in Your Lane: Parent & Baby Roles in Infant Feeding with Marsha Dunn Klein OTR/L, MEd, FAOTA
#206: What is my feeding role as a parent and how do I make sure that I stay in my lane to ensure a healthy feeding relationship with my baby? Oftentimes it is common to feel the need and responsibility to manage what, when, and how much our babies eat but in reality a parent and a baby have different jobs during the transition into solid foods and learning how to eat.
In this episode, I am joined by Marsha Dunn Klein, OTR/L, MEd, FAOTA who is a pediatric occupational therapist specialized in working with children who have feeding challenges for 50 years and she is here to clearly define what a parent and baby role consist of and provide us with some tips on how to build a stronger feeding relationship.
Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/206

• Marsha Dunn Klein OTR/L,MEd, FAOTA is a pediatric occupational therapist who has spent a career specializing in pediatric feeding challenges.
• She received her bachelor's degree in occupational therapy from Sargent College of Boston University in 1971. She also received a master’s degree in education with emphasis on special education in 1975 from the University of Arizona.
• Marsha has co-authored PreFeeding Skills editions one and two and Mealtime Participation Guide and Homemade Blended Formula Handbook with Suzanne Evans Morris and Feeding and Nutrition for the Child with Special Needs with Tracy Delaney.
• Her book Anxious Eaters, Anxious Mealtimes: Practical and Compassionate Strategies for Mealtime Peace serves as a great resource for parents and caregivers.

Links from this Episode:
• Dear Parent: Navigating Challenging Mealtimes with Anxious Eaters
• Pressure and Permission
• Toothbrushing 1-2-3
• The Get Permission Approach to Anxious Eaters, Anxious Mealtimes Master Course
• Anxious eaters, anxious mealtimes: Practical and Compassionate Strategies for Mealtime Peace
• Get Permission Institute
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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!

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35 min
February 21, 2022 High Chair Help: What if My Baby Won’t Sit in the High Chair?
#205: Positioning a baby properly on a high chair is easier than you may expect, it’s getting the baby to WANT to stay on their high chair that may be the problem!..So what do you do if you have that baby who will not sit in the high chair? In this episode I share a number of different coping mechanisms for babies who do not like to sit in the high chair when starting their solid foods journey.

Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/205

Other episode related to this topic:
• Episode 190 “Arlene Peck Why This Mom Decided to do BLW After Spoon-Feeding Her First 3 with Arlene Peck”
• Episode 172 “High Chair Positioning: Reduce Choking Risk Using This One Simple Move with Jeff Durkee of Nomi High Chair”
• Episode 92 “How to Choose a Safe Seat for Your Baby to Eat with Kirsti Vandraas”
• Episode 7 “Why Your Baby’s High Chair Needs a Footrest”
• Episode 20 “Vomit: What if My Baby Vomits when Eating?”

🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱

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.

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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!

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19 min
February 17, 2022 Data-Driven Feeding Decisions with Emily Oster, PhD @profemilyoster
#204: Ever wonder how you can equip yourself with the tools to make the best decisions for your baby? Being a parent involves an overwhelming number of duties and responsibilities and in this episode Emily Oster, PhD who is an economics professor and very well known author in the parenting field is here to talk about the data that is available to help parents and caregivers make data-driven decisions for their babies.

Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/204

• Emily Oster holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard, is an economics professor at Brown University and her academic work focuses on health economics and statistical methods.
•She is a very well known author of a number of books on parenting and pregnancy with the goal of creating a world of more relaxed pregnant women and parents.
•Emily is the author of Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting from Birth to Preschool, and The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years.
• Emily is also the author of a highly engaged substack newsletter called PARENTDATA, it’s a twice weekly newsletter about data, parenting and pregnancy.

Links from this Episode:
• Vist Emily Oster’s website HERE
• Subscribe to Newsletter Parent Data HERE
• Follow Emily on Instagram @profemilyoster
Emily Oster, PhD Books:
• Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What you Really Need to Know Analyzes the data behind many common pregnancy rules, and aims to improve decision-making for pregnant women.
• Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting from Brith to Preschool Same as “Expecting Better” but for early childhood-what does the evidence really say on breastfeeding, cosleeping, or potty training.
• The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years takes this approach to parenting in the early school years, looking at data on school, extracurriculars, sleep and also providing a framework to make unexpected decisions and address the logistical challenges of this period of parenting.
• Learn more about the Paprika Recipe Manager HERE
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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!

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33 min
February 14, 2022 Vegan Mom, Cattle-Rancher Dad & a BLW Baby: Family Feeding Dynamics with Suzy Quebbeman
#203: Is it possible to be Vegan but feed your baby meat?...Of course! In this episode Suzy Quebbeman who is a vegan mom, married to a cattle-rancher and offering her baby animal foods while practicing baby-led weaning is here to talk about her family’s feeding dynamics and how she is open to offering her baby a variety of foods.

Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/203

About the Guest
• Suzy Quebbeman is a mom with a 7 ½ month old daughter named Mara who is doing baby-led weaning.
• Suzy has been a vegan for about 8 years, her husband is a cattle-rancher and her daughter has been given the freedom to eat a variety of animal products including the allergenic foods.
Listen to previous episodes:
• Episode 85 “Sardines: How to Offer Sardines Safely to Babies”
• Episode 127 “How Do Vegan Families Introduce Potentially Allergenic Foods? with @plantbasedjuniors Alexandra Caspero, MS, RD and Whitney English, MS, RD”
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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!

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25 min
February 10, 2022 Gut Check: Microbiome and Food Allergy Development with Liam O’Mahony, PhD
#202: Have you ever wondered how the bacteria present in your baby’s gut can have an effect on allergic reactions? In this episode researcher, professor and immunologist Liam O’Mahony PhD, who specializes in the basic mechanisms by which microbes influence allergic sensitization within the gut, joins me to talk about how a baby’s gut microbiome can play a role in food allergies and how diet diversity can help decrease allergy risks.

Shownotes with all the links mentioned in this episode are here: https://blwpodcast.com/202

Links from Episode
• Follow Liam O’Mahony on Twitter: @ liam_omahony1
• Healthy infants harbor intestinal bacteria that protect against food allergy | Nature Medicine
• Early-life gut microbiome composition and milk allergy resolution (nih.gov)

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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.
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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!

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28 min
February 07, 2022 Order of BLW Foods to Feed: Does it Matter?
#201 What foods should be introduced first when starting baby-led weaning?
Although there are certain situations where some foods need to be introduced later on in the feeding process..Spoiler Alert! The order of baby-led weaning foods introduced to a baby does not matter. In this episode we are exploring the fact that parents and caretakers have all the freedom they need to offer babies the variety of foods they want when starting baby-led weaning.

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:
⁠https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/201
Links from this episode:
• 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!

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10 min

About Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro

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Is your baby ready to start solid foods but you’re feeling overwhelmed or confused about baby-led weaning? Babies can eat so many more foods than we give them credit for and you don’t have to force-feed or spoon-feed to get them to eat real food!