Description
This course is about the parenting approach to introducing solids in a way that puts your baby in the lead, and focuses on building a positive relationship with food and a trust-based relationship with you at the table, which will create the strongest base for a happy healthy relationship with eating for the rest of their childhood and beyond!
It offers you a holistic scope of information combining all you need to know in terms of baby-nutrition, plus the parenting approach for success.
Who is this course for?
- Interested in the BLW approach and its benefits, but not quiet sure what it is & how to adopt it?
- Confused about the contradictory recommendations on when, how, and with what to start?
- Worried about how to handle the mess, the gagging, how to offer foods safely etc.. ?
- You’ve started on your journey but things aren’t going great? Not sure how to transition to textured foods?
- Not comfortable with the idea of finger foods from the first day, but still want all the benefits of a baby-led approach?
- Want practical tips that work in real life to manage the challenges of daily life?
- Want all the big things and little things that really make a difference in your child’s experience summed up in one place?
What will you learn?
- The main principles behind a baby-led approach, and things that really matters
- How to follow a baby-led approach even with purées and spoon-feeding
- The latest official recommendations from child health organizations
- When to start and with what, and all the nutritional requirements you need to know
- The safety checklist that’ll keep your mind at ease
- All you need to know about gagging
- How to serve all types of foods, through visual examples
- Meal progression guides and schedules per age
- Check-list of all the little things that make a difference in baby’s experience, from the tools to the environment
- The 4 golden rules that will help you avoid picky-eating later
Resources you will recieve
- Session Recording To come back and watch it as many times as you need, available for a month.
- 6-12mo Food & milk schedule guide
- The High Chair Guide
- The Little Things That Can Make a Big Difference Guide
- Trouble-shooting Check-list
- Feeding Products Recommendations Video
- Responsive Spoon-feeding - Video Guide
- How to teach baby to use utensils - Video Guide
- Community Support Group to answer all your questions till baby turns one!
The When and Where
When: Saturday the 6th of April at 11am Beirut/ 2pm Dubai
Where: Live online workshop via Zoom
How long: The workshop is for 2-2.5hrs, including interactive Q&A
Will it be recorded? YES! The whole thing will be recorded if the time isn’t perfect for you & will be available for replay for 2 weeks.
What does baby-led feeding mean?
Baby-led weaning (BLW) in the simplest form is about offering your baby once ready for solids real foods, the same or slightly modified foods that the rest of the family eats, from the very beginning, and allow baby to be in charge of feeding themselves and deciding how much to eat.
This approach isn’t really new, it’s how baby humans ate long before recent history brought special baby food products, and turned it into a full industry along with the image of parents holding spoonfuls of them and trying to helicopter them into the mouths of babies. However, the term BLW was coined relatively recently, and with it the baby-led approach started growing greatly in popularity again in recent years because of all that we know now about its positive effects, specifically in terms of raising happy eaters who enjoy food in our world where picky eating in kids and eating disorders in adults are alarmingly common.
Why this is different thank your regular starting solids courses..
Because of how we grow up thinking of the idea of feeding babies (liquid like purées for several months, bland one-ingredient foods repeated for several days, feeding and quantities controlled by the parent etc..), placing baby in the lead with real foods can understandably cause some hesitation. But knowledge (and a supportive community!) is power!
This session will provide you with all the information and tools you need to set you & your baby up for a happy, successful, stress-free baby led feeding journey. But more than that, it will provide you with what is often lacking from the information available out there on baby feeding and which plays a huge role in raising happy eaters.. and that is our role as parents! The relationship we build at the table that will actually get them eating all the things we want them to eat, not just now, but on the longer run, and help them grow into adventurous happy eaters with a positive healthy relationship with food!
You’ll also be joining a community of like-minded moms so you’ll also be getting the emotional support & companionship on your journey.