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Episode 325: Baby Led Weaning Debunking Myths and Misconceptions

24 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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YouTube episode (Episode 325) by Hallie Bulkin discussing baby led weaning and common misconceptions. The speaker clarifies that "baby led feeding" or "baby led weaning" primarily means allowing the baby to self-feed — it does not strictly require only solid foods; parents can still offer purees if the baby is self-feeding. The episode aims to debunk the myth that baby led weaning must exclude purees.

I'd also like to add that I think people think that baby led weaning, there's like a strict definition that it can only be solid food, and that's actually not true. Baby led feeding or baby led weaning is really just letting baby self feed. So you can say that you're doing baby led feeding and still give your baby purees if your baby is self feeding. So I think that that's a common misconception that it has to be all solid food and it can't have any purees to be baby led feeding.