Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro
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!
I’m Katie Ferraro, Registered Dietitian specializing in infant feeding and baby-led weaning. I’m a college nutrition professor and mom of 7, and my goal is to help you start solid foods safely using baby-led weaning.
On this podcast I share practical tips on safe food preparation and starting solid foods, as well as in-depth interviews with other feeding experts. Listen to learn how you can get your baby to safely enjoy real food so that you can start enjoying mealtimes again too!
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How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Part II with A...
How does baby-led weaning fit into the intuitive eating model? and What can I do to teach my baby mindful eating? In this second part of the 2-part interview series with the authors of the book ‘How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the...
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How to Schedule Milk Feeds with Solid Food for ...
Should I feed my baby less milk after starting solids? Do I feed my baby solids before or after milk? And how much milk should my baby drink when starting food? In this episode I will be sharing some ideas on how you can schedule milk feeds in...
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How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Part I with Su...
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...
19 min
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Fruit Vacation: How to Help Babies Who Overly F...
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...
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Heavy Metals in Baby Food with @consumerreports...
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...
33 min
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5 BLW Sauce Recipes to Make Swallowing Safer
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...
10 min
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Stay in Your Lane: Parent & Baby Roles in Infan...
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...
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High Chair Help: What if My Baby Won’t Sit in t...
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...
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Data-Driven Feeding Decisions with Emily Oster,...
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...
28 min
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Vegan Mom, Cattle-Rancher Dad & a BLW Baby: Fam...
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...
20 min
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Gut Check: Microbiome and Food Allergy Developm...
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...
24 min
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Order of BLW Foods to Feed: Does it Matter?
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...
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Combo Feeding: Can I Do BLW + Traditional Spoon...
Is it possible to “combine” baby-led weaning with traditional spoon-feeding? This approach is sometimes called “combination” or “combo feeding”. To celebrate episode 200 of the BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcast I am honored to be...
32 min
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Beginner's Guide to Baby-Led Weaning: Starting ...
What things do I need to know or get before starting baby-led weaning? How do you minimize the mess and which bibs are best? In this episode I’m walking you through some of the basic tips and tools you’ll need as you learn to navigate...
24 min
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Adapted Baby-Led Weaning for Feeding Challenges...
Is baby-led weaning unsafe for babies with feeding difficulties? Is it even attainable to successfully transition babies with special needs into solids by using the BLW approach? In this episode pediatric speech pathologist and international...
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Sick Days & Solid Foods: Do I Stop Trying New F...
Do I stop trying new foods when my baby is sick? Is it safe to offer my baby food if they are sick? In this episode we’re exploring some techniques for managing sick days when you’re also transitioning to solid foods. Get your...
10 min
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Rituals for Weaning: Making Your Baby's Mealtim...
How can you make your baby’s mealtime memorable? Day Schildkret is an internationally renowned artist who has inspired many people around the world to reconnect with nature and creativity through the practice of earth art, ritual, and...
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Texture 101: Tips for Trying Trickier Textures ...
How do you get your baby to eat new textures? What texture of foods can babies safely eat? In this episode baby-led weaning expert Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP and I are discussing tips for trying out trickier textures for your baby and why we...
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BLW Food Size: Why Do Early Eaters Need Big Pie...
What size do you cut food for baby-led weaning? When is it safe to cut foods smaller for babies? In this episode BLW expert Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP is teaching why we make BLW foods bigger at first and how you can help your baby succeed in...
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Protein: How Much Protein Does My Baby Need?
Why does protein hold so much POWER over parents?! Most adults eat too much protein and are obsessed with protein for all the wrong reasons…and we do NOT want to project this protein pressure onto our babies! In this episode we are exploring...
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Best BLW Advice from the Leading Feeding Experts
When is my baby ready to start baby-led weaning? What does an allergic reaction to food look like? Why are pouches bad for babies? …in this episode I’m including some of the best baby-led weaning advice from the leading feeding experts who...
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12 Month Old Babies: Sample BLW Feeding Schedule
How much food should a 1-year-old baby eat? Much of baby-led weaning is “practicing” for where we want baby to be when he or she turns 12 months, but what feeding milestones and accomplishments do we want to achieve by the time baby turns 1?...
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Why This Mom Decided to do BLW After Spoon-Feed...
Can you imagine an 8 ½ year gap between your 3rd and 4th babies? My friend Arlene Peck did just that…and as soon as she found out she was pregnant, Arlene 100% on board wanting to do baby-led weaning. Now Jacob is 6 months old, sitting on...
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10-11 Months Old Babies: Sample BLW Schedule
How often should babies who are 10-11 months old eat solid foods? Should they be allowed to feel some “casual hunger”, do we drop another milk feed? What about transitioning off of the bottle and onto the open cup. In this episode I am...
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Breastmilk Testing: Why Measure the Quality of ...
Is your breastmilk the same as my breastmilk? What if my breastmilk is lacking in nutrients that is compromising my baby’s growth? And can I measure the quality of my breastmilk? These are questions that Dr. Stephanie Canale wondered as a new...
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