In recent years, baby-led weaning—the practice of letting babies hand-feed themselves solid foods ... breastmilk or formula ...

Chew each bite enthusiastically, then feed your little one in the same way. • Lead by example: "Give a fork and spoon at each meal, model how to use it (by eating food from your own plate with ...

The method emphasises allowing infants to hand-feed themselves whole, non-pureed foods when introducing solids versus the more traditional approach of spoon-feeding infants pureed solids.

Kapadia went back to spoon-feeding seera while singing nursery rhymes. “I would rather get done with the meal in ten minutes and get back to my work or my elder one’s studies,” she says.

A growing number of parents are skipping spoon-feeding their babies and trying “baby-led weaning” instead. By Katie J. M. Baker Jenny Best was determined that her firstborn son would have a ...