Your Baby Can Self-Feed, Too: Adapted Baby-Led Weaning for Children with Developmental Delays or Other Feeding Challenges

Your Baby Can Self-Feed, Too is a groundbreaking book on feeding children with special needs and setting them up for lifelong feeding independence. It introduces adapted baby-led weaning, a proprietary take on Gill Rapley's groundbreaking approach, which responds to a child's signs of readiness, adapts food to fit their abilities, and provides individualized targeted support.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 19 October 2022
Publisher: The Experiment LLC

A groundbreaking book on feeding children with special needs — and setting them up for lifelong feeding independence!

Your Baby Can Self-Feed, Too, is the inclusive guide to introducing solids. Over 25 percent of children experience challenges with this big step — both typically developing babies and those with (known or unknown) physical or neurological differences. Resources on how to help babies who face obstacles in making the move to solid foods are scarce.

Thats where this book comes in. Feeding therapist Jill Rabin teams up with BLW pioneer Gill Rapley to introduce their new proprietary take on Rapleys groundbreaking approach: adapted baby-led weaning. With ABLW, you can meet your childs needs by:

Responding to his or her signs of readiness, whenever they appear, Adapting food to fit his or her abilities and promote skill development, Working with your therapist to provide individualized targeted support, Using “bridge devices” (for example, silicone feeders) with your therapists guidance.

Baby-led weaning transformed the parenting landscape by replacing boring purées with real, healthy food that babies can explore for themselves — while building motor skills, coordination, and confidence. Now, every baby can benefit:

Your Baby Can Self-Feed, Too!

Weight: 300g
ISBN-13: 9781615199020