The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook: Delicious Recipes That Will Help Your Baby Learn to Eat Solid Foods―and That the Whole Family Will Enjoy (The Authoritative Baby-Led Weaning Series) - Softcover

Murkett, Tracey; Rapley, Gill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161519049X ISBN 13: 9781615190492

Publisher: The Experiment, 2012

Synopsis

Forget baby purées and spoon-feeding—there’s an easier, more natural way to introduce your little one to solid foods. By about six months, when babies can sit up unassisted, grab things, and munch on them, they are ready to join the family at the kitchen table and discover real, solid food for themselves.

Baby-led weaning sets the stage for healthy eating habits in the years ahead by helping babies learn to feed themselves, to gauge appetite, and to love a variety of nutritious foods. Now, with The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook, cooking family meals that your little one can share will be a cinch. Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett—coauthors of Baby-Led Weaning, the book that started the movement—collect 130 recipes perfectly suited for baby-led weaning, as well as:

· Straightforward advice on which foods to start with
· Essential at-a-glance information on nutrition and food safety
· Healthy ideas for quick snacks, delicious desserts, and meals for the whole family
· Anecdotes and quotes from parents who follow baby-led weaning
· Tips on minimizing the mess, keeping food the right size for little hands, and more!

The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook will give you the recipes and the confidence to create exciting, enjoyable mealtimes that encourage little ones to develop at their own pace.

About this title

About the Author:

Gill Rapley, PhD, has studied infant feeding and child development for many years. She worked as a public health nurse for over twenty years and has also been a midwife and a voluntary breastfeeding counselor. She developed the theory of baby-led weaning while studying babies’ developmental readiness for solids as part of her master’s degree and has since been awarded a PhD for research comparing spoon-feeding with self-feeding. Gill lives in Kent, England, with her husband and has three grown children, all of whom tried their best to show her that they didn’t need any help with solid foods.

Tracey Murkett is a writer, journalist, and breastfeeding peer supporter. After following baby-led weaning with her own daughter, she wanted to let other parents know how enjoyable and stress-free mealtimes with babies and young children can be. She lives in London with her partner and their daughter.

Review:

“This engaging resource features lots of recipes to encourage baby independence during weaning and should match the popularity of the previous guide.”
—Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: The Experiment
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 161519049X
• ISBN 13: 9781615190492
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192