Latest Weaning Podcast Episodes
Are Produce Washes Helpful or Hogwash for Food Safety?
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - January 31, 2024 17:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#405: Nobody wants to give their baby a foodborne illness…but do you need to be buying produce washes to prevent disease? In this episode we’ll look at some produce washes including what they do, what they claim to do, and whether or not they’re any better than good old fashioned friction and run...
Storing Breastmilk Safely with Lara Vu, MPH, CLES @milaskeeper
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - January 25, 2024 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#404: If you’re a pumping mom, where do you store your expressed milk? If you’re a working pumping mom and you go to an office or worksite, this is a major issue. The lunchroom refrigerator next to Bob’s bologna sandwich? Laura Vu, MPH, CLES started her company Mila’s Keeper to create an attracti...
Tree nuts: do I have to offer all of them or is one enough?
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - January 22, 2024 17:30 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#403: Unsure about how to introduce the potentially allergenic food tree nuts to your baby? Confused about WHICH tree nut to start with, HOW to prepare it, and how OFTEN to incorporate it? Listen in as I simplify the research on tree nut allergies & provide you with the confidence and knowledge y...
How This Tube Fed Baby Also Safely Started Solid Foods with @walkietalkieeats Brooke Tibbett
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - January 18, 2024 16:15 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#402: What if your baby was silently aspirating on milk? Wouldn’t take a bottle…squired and refused milk at every feed. This was Brooke Tibbett’s experience with her second baby who eventually ended up requiring a tube feeding for nutrition at 6 months of age. In this interview Brooke shares her ...
Does the Order of Allergenic Food Introduction Matter?
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - January 15, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#401: Does it matter whether you offer your baby peanut before egg or milk before shellfish? In this episode we’re exploring the time-sensitive considerations about early introduction of potentially allergenic foods for your baby and whether or not it matters what order you offer these foods in. ...
A Few Surprising Things About this Podcast...Looking Back at 400 Episodes
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - January 11, 2024 13:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#400: It’s the 400th episode of the baby-led weaning podcast. In this episode Katie and Lauren look back and chat about a few things that might surprise you about this show: the most and least popular episode topics, why we don’t do bonus episodes anymore and a little insight into who helps make ...
3 Reasons to Ditch the High Chair Tray...and 1 Reason Not to
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - January 08, 2024 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#399: Your baby doesn’t need a high chair tray. That’s right…in most cases, your chair can be modified to bring your baby right up to the table to join your family at meals, even from the baby’s first bites. In this episode we’re looking at 3 distinct reasons why you should skip the tray with one...
LifeVac: Do Choking Rescue Devices Work? with Brandon Doerksen
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - January 04, 2024 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#398: If your baby is choking on food will one of those choking rescue devices actually work? In this episode I’m interviewing certified CPR instructor Brandon Doerksen about whether a choking device replaces CPR for choking rescue or is used as an adjunct. Listen to learn how the choking devices...
Hard Facts on Soft Yolks: Are Runny Egg Yolks OK for Babies?
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - January 01, 2024 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#397: Is it safe for babies to eat runny egg yolks? At a restaurant, probably…but at home, no. In this episode we’re covering egg safety and how to safely prepare eggs for baby-led weaning which includes not serving runny egg yolks, runny egg whites or runny scrambled eggs. We’ll also address som...
Are 360 Cups Ok? with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - December 28, 2023 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#396: Are 360 spoutless cups the same as open cups? Or are they sippy cups? Do they hinder development or confuse your baby when learning to become an independent drinker? In this episode pediatric swallowing expert and speech language pathologist Dawn Winkelmann will share her thoughts about 360...
Is My Baby Eating Too Much Too Early?
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - December 25, 2023 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#395: Is my baby overeating or eating too much too early after starting solid foods? In this interview I’m answering 3 moms’ questions about their concerns of babies overeating and addressing what typical consumption might look like at the various ages and stages of baby-led weaning…and why it’s ...
How Heavy Metal Levels in Baby Food Have & Haven't Changed in 5 Years with @consumerreports James E. Rogers, PhD
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - December 21, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#394: Five years ago Consumer Reports tested heavy metal levels in 50 popular baby foods and found that more than ⅔ of them contained concerning levels of heavy metals. When they retested some of the same products this year, not much had changed. In this episode James Rogers, PhD who oversaw the ...
Twins, Triplets and Quadruplets: How These Moms of Multiples Mastered Baby-Led Weaning
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - December 19, 2023 16:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#393: If you have a few mouths to feed at one time, then baby-led weaning is REALLY going to behoove you. In this episode we’re looking at the ways in which a baby-led approach particularly benefits families with multiples. We’ll talk about food swiping, when multiples are ready to eat on differe...
How to Handle Information Overload in the Baby Space with Sharon Mazel
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - December 14, 2023 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#392: Are you overwhelmed by info about how to raise your baby? Pregnancy and parenting expert and author Sharon Mazel has some simple tips on how to handle information overload in the baby space. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST...
How Essential are Fatty Acids for Babies?
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - December 11, 2023 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#391: How do the essential fatty acids in fish foods help your baby’s still developing brain? In this episode we cover both EPA and DHA exploring how your baby can safely get these fatty acids…even if your family doesn’t eat a lot of fish. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 Not sure about which foods to offer your baby ...
Back Blows for Babies: When Do I Administer CPR? with @thrivetraininginstitute Brandon Doerksen
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - December 07, 2023 16:40 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#390: What if my baby chokes on food? In this episode, certified CPR Instructor Brandon Doerksen from Thrive Training Institute tells us when and how to administer back blows for a baby under 12 months of age who is choking on food. Knowing CPR can save your baby’s life and be sure to take an inf...
Can Cinnamon Cause Lead Poisoning? Applesauce Pouch Contamination Update with Helena Bottemiller Evich
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - December 04, 2023 17:10 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#389: Today’s episode is a little different - there’s not a lot of breaking news in the infant feeding world. But if you have been following the news perhaps you’ve heard about the applesauce pouch lead contamination story. I’m recording this on November 29, 2023 at which point now 52 children h...
Why Does My Baby Yawn During Mealtimes with Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - November 30, 2023 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#388: Is your baby yawning in the middle of their meals? Are they tired? …just bored of your food? What gives?! In this episode SLP Dawn Winkelmann is exploring some reasons about why your baby is yawning at the table…and it’s not what you think! Follow Dawn on Instagram @msdawnslp. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 N...
5 Reasons Not to Start Solid Foods Before 6 Months of Age
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - November 27, 2023 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#387: I know you’re getting pressure to start solid foods prior to 6 months of age. There’s actually no upside to starting early…and it can be dangerous. In this episode I’m outlining 5 primary reasons to delay the introduction of solid foods until your baby is really ready to safely begin self-f...
Pincer Grasp: When Can My Baby Pick Up Smaller Pieces of Food? with Rachel Harrington, COTA/L, AC
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - November 23, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#386: When can I start cutting up my baby’s food into smaller pieces? Your baby needs their pincer grasp to pick up smaller pieces of food to self-feed…and for most babies, they won’t develop this skill until 9 or 10 months of age. In this episode Rachel Harrington, COTA/L, AC shared some insight...
10 Tools I Use Every Day to Simplify Feeding Babies
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - November 20, 2023 11:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#385: You don’t need a lot of fancy gadgets or a big budget to help your baby learn how to eat real food…but there are a few staple tools that will streamline your safe food preparation. In this episode I’m sharing 10 tools that I use every day to simplify feeding babies. 🛒 🛒 🛒 🛒 🛒 Links to too...
Fixing Our Broken Baby Feeding System with @simplifedbaby Andrea Ippolito
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - November 16, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#384: What kind of lactation or breastfeeding support did you get BEFORE your baby was born? How about after? Did you have to pay for it or did your insurance? In this episode Andrea Ippolito from @simplifedbaby explains how our current baby feeding system is broken, and what continual help from ...
Beef: How to Safely Offer Beef to Babies
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - November 14, 2023 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#383: If your family eats animal foods then meats like beef are a good idea to incorporate into the weaning diet. Beef provides unique nutrition, taste and texture opportunities and in this episode I’ll share a number of ways to make beef safe for babies, including my favorite cuts of beef - and ...
Food Allergy Prevention 101 with Tina Sindher, MD
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - November 09, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#382: Offering food to your baby food is the only way to know if they’re allergic to it…but that doesn’t mean it’s not scary. In this episode pediatrician and food allergy practitioner and researcher Tina Sindher, MD is going to teach some basic tips for introducing allergenic foods as a means to...
When Can I Start Sending Food to Daycare? with Yesenia Jacobo
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - November 06, 2023 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#381: If your baby goes to daycare and you’re starting solid foods, you’re probably wondering, “When do these 2 things link up? When is it ok to start sending finger foods to daycare?” In this episode, new mom - Yesenia Jacobo is sharing her own experience doing baby-led weaning with her daughter...
Why Doctors STILL Aren't Talking About Introducing Allergenic Foods with Ruchi Gupta, MD, MPH
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - November 02, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#380: When you were at your 4 or 6 month well check with your baby, did your pediatrician mention the importance of introducing peanut early and often? In this episode pediatrician and researcher Dr. Ruchi Gupta is talking about why only 13% of parents and caregivers are aware of the recommendati...
Favorite Portable High Chairs for Feeding on the Go
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - October 30, 2023 09:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#379: Which chairs are the best for feeding babies on the go? In this episode I’m sharing about 2 of my favorite portable high chair, which also work in a pinch if your current high chair at home isn’t cutting it. These 2 portable high chairs are durable and affordable and I think you’ll be a fan...
Building Sensory Enjoyment at Mealtimes with Karen Dilfer, MS, OTR/L
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - October 26, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#378: Sensory enjoyment, sensory processing, sensory challenges…what emotions or feelings do these terms conjure up as you’re introducing new foods to your baby? Karen Dilfer, MS, OTR/L is a feeding therapist who helps children with motor, sensory and mealtime challenges. She’s talking about why ...
Safe High Chair Positioning
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - October 23, 2023 09:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#377: Is your high chair too big for your baby right now? Don’t throw the baby out with the high chair just yet…we can fix that chair and make it a safe seat where your baby can eat. In this episode we’re looking at safe high chair positioning and a few simple steps you can do to modify your high...
Are Food Sensitivity Tests Bogus? with David Stukus, MD
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro - October 19, 2023 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratings#376: If you suspect your baby is sensitive to food, is it worth your time and money to explore food sensitivity testing? In this episode, noted pediatrician and allergist David Stukus, MD explains why and how food sensitivity tests do NOT work…and what (if anything) you should be testing for at ...
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