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Episode 325: Raw Carrots for Babies !

25 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment of Episode 325, Hallie Bulkin and a co‑host discuss common parental concerns about the safety of offering foods in various forms to infants. They affirm that both purees and solid foods can be safe when introduced according to the baby’s developmental stage, emphasizing a core philosophy that the baby should lead the feeding process. The conversation frames this approach as “baby‑led feed feeding,” a close cousin of baby‑led weaning, where the focus is on providing foods that match the child’s age‑appropriate abilities and encouraging self‑feeding from the start.

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I know. In the whole baby led weaning movement, too, we get questions from parents all the time, like, is it safe to give children foods in this form?
Yes. So definitely it is safe. And our whole philosophy is baby leads the way. We are introducing solid foods to baby, but also purees. So we really believe that adult diet. If you look at an adult diet, we're eating purees. We're eating. I ate yogurt for breakfast. Right. So babies can eat that from the beginning. But it's all about baby leading the way, feeding themselves. So we call it baby led feed feeding. It's very similar baby led weaning, but really primarily solid foods. And it's all about serving foods that match the baby's developmental age.