Parents can try baby-led weaning for fun but it's not worth feeling guilty over
And not just because they can be pretty tasteless, but because there’s a better way to start your baby on solid foods.” is the idea that we should, at the point where babies are transitioning out of a diet that’s 100 per cent milk or baby formula, present them with options of different foods that they can pick up and eat themselves: a piece of banana, a slice of bell pepper, a stick of bread.
Nowadays, baby-led weaning is everywhere, with claims and meal ideas found on hundreds of websites and in a whole shelf worth of parenting-advice books. So we need to make sure that the studies we look at are those where the babies are randomly allocated to do baby-led weaning or otherwise. This, in theory anyway, ensures that any pre-existing differences would be balanced out across the two groups, so we can see whether it’s the weaning that’s having an effect., where they randomly assigned about 140 babies to a baby-led weaning group and the same number to a spoon-feeding group from age six months.
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