Is baby-led feeding different from baby-led weaning"
?Baby-led weaning? was coined by authors Tracey Murkett and Gill Rapley in 2008 when they published their initial book in the UK. It refers to a baby starting solids solely by self-feeding with food they can grasp, without any purées or spoon-feeding. In the UK, where ?weaning? refers to the introduction of complementary foods, this term makes a lot of sense, but here in North America, most parents hear ?weaning? and think it means stopping breastfeeding. That?s why North American baby reference books tend to refer to it as ?baby-led feeding? or ?self-feeding? to avoid confusion. (You?ll probably still see the ?BLW? acronym in Facebook groups, however.) Starting solids doesn?t mean you?re going to stop or phase out nursing or discontinue bottles. Some people feel baby-led feeding is a less hard core approach than baby-led weaning. It?s sometimes referred to as ?modified baby-led weaning,? in which some smoother textures and purées are combined with larger pieces a baby can pick up on their own. More diehard advocates of baby-led weaning focus on exclusive self-feeding and no smooth textures whatsoever.
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