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The dietary requirements of infants
Published in Claire Tuck, Complementary Feeding, 2022
A good indicator of how much energy an infant needs may be how much solid food and milk he wants. If he is in control of how much he eats and drinks, as in responsive feeding and baby-led weaning, he will stop when he is no longer hungry.5,6
Infant Nutrition
Published in Praveen S. Goday, Cassandra L. S. Walia, Pediatric Nutrition for Dietitians, 2022
Olivia Mayer, Yasemin Cagil, John Kerner
Baby-led weaning has become a popular feeding strategy among caregivers over the last few years. Using this approach, infants are fed soft table foods as their first foods, skipping pureed foods. This allows the infant to self-feed. Potential advantages of baby-led weaning include self-regulation of feeding pace and volume, skill development including hand-eye coordination, and participation in family mealtimes by consuming texture-appropriate components of the family meal.
Nutrition and oral health
Published in Jackie Musgrave, Health and Wellbeing for Babies and Children, 2022
Baby self weaning is an approach to introducing complementary foods where the baby is given food similar food to all of the family, ensuring it is cut into small pieces, the baby controls what he eats as well as the amount of food that is eaten. Baby led weaning has gained popularity in some countries, such as the UK and New Zealand, possibly because these countries recommend introducing complementary feeding at 6 months, and this is the age that many babies are able to sit up and have the fine motor skills that are required to select and chew food. There has ben limited research into the effects of baby led weaning, but anecdotally, this approach could be advantageous to babies’ development. Potentially, it can be a way of helping babies to have more agency over their food choices, as well as giving them an opportunity to develop their motor skills (Figure 9.2).
Managing the child born preterm after hospital discharge
Published in Speech, Language and Hearing, 2023
Katherine Sanchez, Alaina Martens, Emily Zimmerman
Baby Led Weaning (BLW) is an increasingly popular approach to introducing solid foods, whereby babies are given soft pieces of finger foods rather than being fed purees by an adult. The BLW guidelines advise against using BLW with children born preterm, and there are concerns that this approach may be a poor fit due to a higher rate of motor difficulties and different nutritional needs in children born preterm (Cameron, Heath, & Taylor, 2012; Cichero, 2016; Wright, Cameron, Tsiaka, & Parkinson, 2011). If parents wish to use BLW, SLPs may find it helpful to advocate for a combined approach where infants are encouraged to self-feed with a spoon, and mouth hard foods that are unlikely to break and cause a choking risk.