Baby led weaning

[Fidgetsmum]

What's the best book/resource for baby-led weaning?

Thanks

[radhabee]

Hi, probably the best known one is called Baby Led Weaning by Gill Rapley, you can probably find a cheapish copy on abebooks.co.uk. I found it quite useful, only criticism is that it spends a lot of time justifying the approach - it's more of a "why to" rather than a "how to" (recipes, idiot-proof top five things to avoid etc etc) book. Having said that, it spared me from months of pureeing, and for that I am eternally grateful :)

[Fidgetsmum]

Great. Thanks very much. I pureed and pureed for my daughter but my son is so different and at 5 months is just grabbing things out of my hands whenever he can - I'm stopping him from getting anything, but it feels wrong, so I thought I'd research some blw.

[Fuschia]

You can get gill rapley from

The lbrary

But google baby led weaning blog - good site with tips and forum

[Fuschia]

Mine started grabbing and gas now had a try of cucumber and watermelon

Both very popular

[Fidgetsmum]

Great - thanks Fuschia!

[snowboarder]

There is now a baby led weaning cook book by same author as above. Not sure how useful as bought but haven't opened it yet...did spy a page entitled 'steamed vegetables'....hmm...

[EmmaDoran]

We've been doing BLW for a month now and I bought both the book and the cookbook. Wouldn't really bother with either - just read the website, it tells you everything that you need to know plus there are recipes if you want them.

http://www.baby-led.com/

http://www.babyledweaning.com/

[MichelleT]

Haven't got the cookbook, but seems a bit silly as the whole idea is the baby eats what you eat, within reason.

[gebbjane]

I found the cookbook quite useful - think you can get away with just getting that as first couple of chapters talks about what baby led weaning is. The recipes then have meal ideas for the whole family but what I found useful were the recipies and ideas for snacks as my daughter prefers to eat little and often- the bannana muffins being the biggest hit.