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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5 Reasons Not to Start Solid Foods Before 6 Mon...
I know you’re getting pressure to start solid foods prior to 6 months of age. There’s actually no upside to starting early…and it can be dangerous. In this episode I’m outlining 5 primary reasons to delay the introduction of solid foods until your baby is really ready to safely begin self-feeding.
11 min
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Pincer Grasp: When Can My Baby Pick Up Smaller ...
When can I start cutting up my baby’s food into smaller pieces? Your baby needs their pincer grasp to pick up smaller pieces of food to self-feed…and for most babies, they won’t develop this skill until 9 or 10 months of age. In this episode Rachel Harrington, COTA/L, AC shared some insight on how babies develop their pincer grasp and what you can do to help along the way.
26 min
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10 Tools I Use Every Day to Simplify Feeding Ba...
You don’t need a lot of fancy gadgets or a big budget to help your baby learn how to eat real food…but there are a few staple tools that will streamline your safe food preparation. In this episode I’m sharing 10 tools that I use every day to simplify feeding babies.
28 min
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Fixing Our Broken Baby Feeding System with @sim...
What kind of lactation or breastfeeding support did you get BEFORE your baby was born? How about after? Did you have to pay for it or did your insurance? In this episode Andrea Ippolito from @simplifedbaby explains how our current baby feeding system is broken, and what continual help from a lactation specialist can do to improve breastfeeding rates, help maternal mental health, and create a more positive foray into feeding for new parents.
33 min
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Beef: How to Safely Offer Beef to Babies
If your family eats animal foods then meats like beef are a good idea to incorporate into the weaning diet. Beef provides unique nutrition, taste and texture opportunities and in this episode I’ll share a number of ways to make beef safe for babies, including my favorite cuts of beef - and the main type of beef I recommend that you avoid for early eaters.
14 min
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Food Allergy Prevention 101 with Tina Sindher, MD
Offering food to your baby food is the only way to know if they’re allergic to it…but that doesn’t mean it’s not scary. In this episode pediatrician and food allergy practitioner and researcher Tina Sindher, MD is going to teach some basic tips for introducing allergenic foods as a means to help reduce the risk of food allergy in your baby.
35 min
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When Can I Start Sending Food to Daycare? with ...
If your baby goes to daycare and you’re starting solid foods, you’re probably wondering, “When do these 2 things link up? When is it ok to start sending finger foods to daycare?” In this episode, new mom Yesenia Jacobo is sharing her own experience doing baby-led weaning with her daughter Sophia and how and when they decided to start sending finger foods to daycare.
22 min
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Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introduc...
When you were at your 4 or 6 month well check with your baby, did your pediatrician mention the importance of introducing peanut early and often? In this episode pediatrician and researcher Dr. Ruchi Gupta is talking about why only 13% of parents and caregivers are aware of the recommendations to introduce peanuts to babies early and often.
29 min
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Favorite Portable High Chairs for Feeding on th...
Which chairs are the best for feeding babies on the go? In this episode I’m sharing about 2 of my favorite portable high chair, which also work in a pinch if your current high chair at home isn’t cutting it. These 2 portable high chairs are durable and affordable and I think you’ll be a fan too!
10 min
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Building Sensory Enjoyment at Mealtimes with Ka...
Sensory enjoyment, sensory processing, sensory challenges…what emotions or feelings do these terms conjure up as you’re introducing new foods to your baby? Karen Dilfer, MS, OTR/L is a feeding therapist who helps children with motor, sensory and mealtime challenges. She’s talking about why some children react differently to sensory inputs, how this can affect mealtime progress and how to promote sensory enjoyment with your baby.
36 min
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Safe High Chair Positioning
21 min
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Are Food Sensitivity Tests Bogus? with David St...
Could a food sensitivity be causing your baby’s fussiness or sleep disruption, eczema or colic? No. In this interview episode, guest David Stukus, MD explains why food sensitivities aren’t something you can test, and how the food sensitivity test industry is built on a completely fabricated premise.
11 min
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Plant Based Sources of Iron
Plant Based Sources of Iron
17 min
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Iron Testing and Anemia Screening for Infants w...
Does your pediatrician screen for anemia at your baby’s in-office well check? In this episode Staffan Ahlandsberg, PhD from HemoCue is explaining how iron testing and anemia screening works…and what to do if your doctor is not screening for anemia (even if you’ve been told your baby is “not at risk” for anemia).
34 min
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Aldi: 10 BLW Foods to Buy from Aldi
Whether you're a seasoned Aldi shopper fan or have never stepped foot in one before, you'll discover some amazing baby-led weaning foods to grab from Aldi.
16 min
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Mom's Mental Health: Strengthening Parenthood T...
Checking in on YOUR mental health in this episode. How are you as a mom doing with anxiety, overwhelm, self-care, invisible load? Moms are unlikely to prioritize themselves over the well-being of their babies or partners or other obligations in life…but Erica Djossa thinks there’s a better way.
30 min
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Thrive Market: 10 Baby-Led Weaning Foods to Buy...
If you like the groceries that come to you, you’ve probably heard of Thrive Market. They don’t carry much in the way of fresh food, but I combed their online market to bring you 10 baby-led weaning foods you can buy from Thrive Market if that’s your thing.
11 min
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Why Do Some Feeding Therapists Disagree with Ba...
Not all feeding therapists are on board with baby-led weaning. In fact, many Speech Language Pathologists and Occupational Therapists who specialize in infant feeding mistakenly think that baby-led weaning is dangerous or that babies do not have the ability to feed themselves.
33 min
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Target: 10 BLW Foods to Buy from Target
What baby-led weaning foods can I get at Target? In this episode, I share 10 foods that can be conveniently purchased from Target while you're running other errands!
13 min
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Using a Milk Ladder for Babies with Dairy Aller...
If your child has a cow’s milk protein allergy, they may not need to avoid cow’s milk protein forever. Today we’re talking about using a milk ladder for reintroduction of dairy foods with Carina Venter, PhD, RDN, a food allergy expert and the publisher of the original milk ladder.
29 min
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5 Uncommon Questions About Starting Solid Foods
Here are a few not-so-normal infant feeding questions I’ve gotten lately. We’re all over the board in this episode from where to feed your baby if you don’t have a high chair to whether or not BBs used to shoot pheasant make the bird unsafe for your baby to eat.
15 min
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Oral Immunotherapy: Helping Babies Become Less ...
If your baby has a diagnosed food allergy, you might feel overwhelmed by the idea of food avoidance for the indefinite future. But Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) offers a promising alternative whereby a person can gradually learn to eat or tolerate increasingly larger amounts of the offending food protein working towards desensitization. In this episode pediatric allergist Dr. David Stukus explains what oral immunotherapy is, how it works and whether or not it’s a viable option for young children with food allergy.
20 min
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Vitamin C: How it Helps Iron Absorption for Babies
Feeding a variety of food to your baby is exciting and as your baby transition to eating more solid foods nutrition needs increasingly now come from food - including vitamin C. In this episode, learn about Vitamin C-rich baby foods & more about the role of Vitamin C in your baby's diet.
18 min
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Dinnertime SOS for Babies & Toddlers with @yumm...
When it comes to cooking dinner for your family, do you plan out every meal a week in advance or do you wing it day by day? In this episode Amy Palanjian from @yummytoddlerfood is sharing her Dinnertime SOS strategy for making meals when you’re cooking for toddlers and babies.
38 min
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Hotel Breakfast Buffet Babies can Safely Eat
Traveling with babies is easy, if you know which foods they can eat. In this episode I’m taking you through a typical hotel breakfast buffet, identifying safe baby-led weaning options for early eaters.
14 min