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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Storing Breastmilk Safely with Lara Vu, MPH, CL...
If you’re a pumping mom, where do you store your expressed milk? If you’re a working pumping mom and you go to an office or worksite, this is a major issue. The lunchroom refrigerator next to Bob’s bologna sandwich? Laura Vu, MPH, CLES started her company Mila’s Keeper to create an attractive, effective, easy-to-use solution for longer, safe breastmilk storage. In this episode she’s sharing basic tips about safe breastmilk storage for pumping moms.
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Tree nuts: do I have to offer all of them or is...
Unsure about how to introduce the potentially allergenic food tree nuts to your baby? Confused about WHICH tree nut to start with, HOW to prepare it, and how OFTEN to incorporate it? Listen in as I simplify the research on tree nut allergies & provide you with the confidence and knowledge you need to safely introduce this potentially allergenic food.
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How This Tube Fed Baby Also Safely Started Soli...
What if your baby was silently aspirating on milk? Wouldn’t take a bottle…squired and refused milk at every feed. This was Brooke Tibbett’s experience with her second baby who eventually ended up requiring a tube feeding for nutrition at 6 months of age. In this interview Brooke shares her family’s experience transitioning their tube fed child to solid foods and how they helped wean her off of the tube and into independent eating using baby-led weaning.
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Does the Order of Allergenic Food Introduction ...
Does it matter whether you offer your baby peanut before egg or milk before shellfish? In this episode we’re exploring the time-sensitive considerations about early introduction of potentially allergenic foods for your baby and whether or not it matters what order you offer these foods in.
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A Few Surprising Things About this Podcast...Lo...
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3 Reasons to Ditch the High Chair Tray...and 1 ...
Your baby doesn’t need a high chair tray. That’s right…in most cases, your chair can be modified to bring your baby right up to the table to join your family at meals, even from the baby’s first bites. In this episode we’re looking at 3 distinct reasons why you should skip the tray with one important situation when that is just not possible.
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LifeVac: Do Choking Rescue Devices Work? with B...
If your baby is choking on food will one of those choking rescue devices actually work? In this episode I’m interviewing certified CPR instructor Brandon Doerksen about whether a choking device replaces CPR for choking rescue or is used as an adjunct. Listen to learn how the choking devices work to dechoke your baby (or not) and the one thing that all parents and caregivers should do before their baby starts solid food.
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Hard Facts on Soft Yolks: Are Runny Egg Yolks O...
Is it safe for babies to eat runny egg yolks? At a restaurant, probably…but at home, no. In this episode we’re covering egg safety and how to safely prepare eggs for baby-led weaning which includes not serving runny egg yolks, runny egg whites or runny scrambled eggs. We’ll also address some common home prepared recipes that you might not realize have raw egg in their ingredient list and should also be avoided for babies.
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Are 360 Cups Ok? with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP
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Is My Baby Eating Too Much Too Early?
Is my baby overeating or eating too much too early after starting solid foods? In this interview I’m answering 3 moms’ questions about their concerns of babies overeating and addressing what typical consumption might look like at the various ages and stages of baby-led weaning…and why it’s ok if meals or days deviate from that routine.
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How Heavy Metal Levels in Baby Food Have & Have...
Five years ago Consumer Reports tested heavy metal levels in 50 popular baby foods and found that more than ⅔ of them contained concerning levels of heavy metals. When they retested some of the same products this year, not much had changed. In this episode James Rogers, PhD who oversaw the Consumer Reports testing on both occasions is talking about what has and has not changed in the commercial baby food market in the past 5 years with regards to heavy metal levels.
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Twins, Triplets and Quadruplets: How These Moms...
If you have a few mouths to feed at one time, then baby-led weaning is REALLY going to behoove you. In this episode we’re looking at the ways in which a baby-led approach particularly benefits families with multiples. We’ll talk about food swiping, when multiples are ready to eat on different timeframes, and how you can consolidate efforts to save time and money whether you’re feeding twins, triplets, quadruplets (or more!)
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How to Handle Information Overload in the Baby ...
Are you overwhelmed by info about how to raise your baby? Pregnancy and parenting expert and author Sharon Mazel has some simple tips on how to handle information overload in the baby space.
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How Essential are Fatty Acids for Babies?
How do the essential fatty acids in fish foods help your baby’s still developing brain? In this episode we cover both EPA and DHA exploring how your baby can safely get these fatty acids…even if your family doesn’t eat a lot of fish.
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Back Blows for Babies: When Do I Administer CPR...
What if my baby chokes on food?
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Can Cinnamon Cause Lead Poisoning? Applesauce P...
Today’s episode is a little different - there’s not a lot of breaking news in the infant feeding world. But if you have been following the news perhaps you’ve heard about the applesauce pouch lead contamination story.
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Why Does My Baby Yawn During Mealtimes with Daw...
Is your baby yawning in the middle of their meals? Are they tired? …just bored of your food? What gives?! In this episode SLP Dawn Winkelmann is exploring some reasons about why your baby is yawning at the table…and it’s not what you think!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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