Infant Course

• Meet our expert duo
• Understand the Feeding Littles approach to Baby-led Weaning

• When to start feeding complementary foods based on your baby’s readiness signs
• Understanding BLW, and what if your baby doesn’t have teeth
• What about spoon-feeding?

• What foods to offer baby (with photos!), how to serve them, and what foods to avoid
• Videos of babies eating at various ages and stages
• Allergenic foods and nutrition
• Creating positive mealtimes, how to present foods, quantities and serving sizes
• Scheduling and milk feeds
• Multiple Tools: Baby’s First Grocery List, Allergenic Food Checklist, Meal Plan, Feeding Littles BLW Cheat Sheet

• Gagging versus choking – what to look for, including videos of babies gagging
• How to keep baby safe at mealtime
• Cup training

• Moving forward as baby gets older, including changing sizes of foods, milk transition, scheduling, and using utensils
• Final Pro Tips

• Managing issues like constipation, teething, baby uninterested in food, reflux, etc.
• Tips for when babies won’t self-feed or are struggling to transition off of spoon-feeding.
• Red flags for feeding therapy and where to turn for help
• Constipation strategies
• Calories boosting strategies

• History of infant feeding
• Getting baby ready for solids – sitting training, hand-to-mouth training, sensory exploration, language development
• Feeding Little’s Favorite gear

Baby-led weaning, or BLW, is an infant feeding philosophy that centers around self-feeding from the start. The term “weaning” can be confusing – in the United States, weaning means stopping breast- or bottle-feeding, but in much of the world weaning refers to how babies start solids. Thus, Baby-led Weaning is baby self-feeding.

In BLW, babies hold strips of soft foods, bring them to their mouth and learn to chew and swallow. BLW promotes independence at mealtime and might help prevent selective eating at some level. Parents tend to like how babies can eat what the family eats and they don’t have to make any special food. While you might find a lot of “rules” about BLW online, our online Infant Course focuses most on promoting independence and skill-building with babies and less about rigid rules or definitions. We are here to support you in doing what feels best for your family.

Our Infant Course focuses on self-feeding and BLW, as well as how to transition off purees if you have been spoon-feeding and how to offer pureed foods/baby foods in a way your baby can feed them to themselves. We believe that parents have to do what’s comfortable, and for some families that means starting with purees on a loaded spoon before transitioning to pieces of food. Our course helps you understand what’s safe, what foods to offer babies, how to handle milk feeds, and more.

We recommend starting solids around 6 months of age, so taking the course around 5 months is ideal. However, since it doesn’t expire you can purchase it much earlier than that to use when you’re ready. 

If your baby is older than 6 months but is not yet self-feeding, the course is great for you to learn how to transition from purees/baby food to finger foods. 

If your baby is 10 months or older and is already self-feeding, it’s time for our Toddler/Kid course.

The main lessons of the infant course take about 90 minutes to complete and are broken into smaller steps.

Babies born prematurely may show readiness signs for solid foods at a different age than babies born full-term. We recommend that parents of premature infants talk with their pediatrician and therapists about readiness cues and how to safely begin feeding given their specific medical or developmental needs. Many premature infants have utilized our Infant Course successfully!

Our course focuses on self-feeding solid foods. “Weaning” in the term Baby-led Weaning is all about introducing solids, not weaning from the breast or bottle. Our Infant Course also includes an ebook that can help you wean from the breast or bottle when you and your baby are ready.

Our Infant Course helps you transition to self-feeding finger foods, whether your baby is brand new to eating solids or has been eating pureed foods already. Many of our clients use it to help make this transition easier.