BABY-LED WEANING
Workshop with Gill Rapley
Monday 20th June 2011 7-30pm - 9.00pm
We are delighted to include this important new workshop in our programme. You can attend during pregnancy or after your baby is born to discover that introducing your baby to solid food and healthy eating of a mixed diet is easier than you think!
All healthy babies can begin to feed themselves from about six months. They just need to be given the opportunity.
Baby-led weaning is a way of introducing solid foods that allows babies to feed themselves - there's no spoon feeding and no purees. The baby sits with the family at mealtimes and joins in when she is ready, feeding herself first with her fingers and later with cutlery.
Baby-led weaning:
* allows babies to explore taste, texture, colour and smell
* encourages independence and confidence
* helps to develop their hand-eye coordination and chewing skills
* makes picky eating and mealtime battles less likely
Baby-led weaning makes sense because it is based on the way babies develop in their first year. Babies immune and digestive systems aren't ready for other foods until they are about six months old. By this time†they can sit upright, pick up pieces of food, take them into their mouths and chew them. In other words, they can feed themselves and, provided simple safety rules are observed, choking is no more likely than with any other method of introducing solids.
Gill Rapley has worked for many years as a health visitor, midwife and breastfeeding counsellor, and has long been interested in supporting mothers to breastfeed. More recently she has become fascinated with the way babies are introduced to solid foods, and developed the baby-led weaning approach which now has a rapidly-growing following.
In 2006 she contributed a chapter on the subject to the book Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture: Controversies and Challenges (Eds. Moran/Dykes, publ. Quay Books), and co-authored the book Baby-led Weaning, published by Vermilion in November 2008.
Cost : £18 per person (some concessions available)
Enquiries/Bookings :
Tel: 020 7281 6760
or email abc.alice@hotmail.co.uk
and include a daytime phone number where we can contact you about registration and take payment
Links below take you to our other classes and workshops
New Baby and Me Course
Baby Massage Workshop for Parents
Postnatal Yoga for Mums
Baby massage and baby yoga classes
Mothers Talking
Baby Resuscitation and First Aid
Baby Led Weaning
Complementary Therapy Clinic for New Mothers and Babies
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