For decades, this was the widely accepted way to feed a baby: Sit them in a high chair, pop open a jar of mushy pureed peas, scoop some onto a tiny spoon, make an “open wide” face, and—whoosh—make it ...

Jenny Best is the founder of Solid Starts, an Instagram account and smartphone app focused on helping parents introduce their babies to solid foods through baby-led weaning, and the co-author of Solid ...

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 positive ...

Baby-Led Weaning (BLW) is an approach that allows babies to self-feed right from the start of their solid food journey, usually around six months of age. Instead of spoon-fed purees, parents offer ...