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, ...

Jenny Best is the founder of Solid Starts, an Instagram account and smartphone app focused on helping parents introduce their babies to solid foods through baby-led weaning, and the co-author of Solid ...

A growing number of parents are skipping spoon-feeding their babies and trying “baby-led weaning” instead. By Katie J. M. Baker Jenny Best was determined that her firstborn son would have a positive ...

In the evolving landscape of infant nutrition, a shift in feeding practices is gaining attention among parents and researchers alike. While spoon-feeding has long been a traditional approach to ...

Babies who hand-feed themselves solid food appear to consume the same number of calories as those given puréed food from a spoon, suggesting that such “baby-led weaning” might offer no particular ...

Baby-Led Weaning (BLW) is an approach that allows babies to self-feed right from the start of their solid food journey, usually around six months of age. Instead of spoon-fed purees, parents offer ...