Jenny Best is the founder of Solid Starts, an Instagram account and smartphone app focused on helping parents introduce their ...

In recent years, baby-led weaning—the practice of letting babies hand-feed themselves solid foods as they transition away ...

Instead, I reached out to baby-feeding experts, who said that if baby-led weaning fails, spoon-feeding your baby mashed-up or pureed food is fine. I also came away from these interviews with the ...

In this method, babies are offered soft, finger-sized pieces of food from the start and allowed to self-feed. Baby-led weaning skips purees and baby food entirely. This method encourages ...

In this method, babies are offered soft, finger-sized pieces of food from the start and allowed to self-feed. Baby-led weaning skips purees and baby food entirely. This method encourages independence ...