Don’t Drip Food: How to Pre-Portion for Baby-Led Weaning

#133: What’s the deal with dripping food? Dripping food is our control-freak way of regulating the pace of baby’s eating...and while it may seem harmless (and cleaner!) dripping can actually interfere with your baby’s ability to learn HOW to eat independently and to recognize and respond to their own hunger and fullness cues.

In this episode we’re talking about the draw-backs of dripping food piece by piece for baby-led weaning. Learning how to appropriately pre-portion your baby’s food is a better alternative to dripping and here’s how you do it!

Listen to this episode to learn:

1. What is dripping and why does it remove baby’s autonomy from the eating process?

2. How do we pre-portion a meal appropriately if there are no hard & fast baby portion sizes for foods?

3. Why we want babies driving the pace of intake and how that helps them learn to recognize & respond to their own hunger & fullness cues 

Shownotes for this episode can be found here:

https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/133

Links from This Episode:

• TRY the ezpz Mini Mats, the 3-portion silicone suction mat mentioned in this episode. I use the 4-oz portion for the starchy/carbohydrate foods and each of the smaller 2 oz portions for 1 small serving of protein and 1 small serving of fruit or vegetable. You can get 15% off everything at ezpzfun.com with the code BABYLED and this is my affiliate code.

• Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program and save $50 when you sign up using the code BLWPOD50

•  Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners