Infant Course
Expert guidance for starting solid foods.
Ages: 6+ months
Our Infant Course helps you feel confident introducing solid foods to your baby 6+ months so they can eat safely and independently.
A seamless transition to solid foods.
Our course can help you:
- Start solid foods via Baby-led Weaning, or infant self-feeding.
- Transition from spoon-feeding to self-feeding successfully.
- Know what to do if your baby is struggling with solids.
Expert guidance for starting solid foods.
Ages: 6+ months
Our Infant Course helps you feel confident introducing solid foods to your baby 6+ months so they can eat safely and independently.
A seamless transition to solid foods.
Our course can help you:
- Start solid foods via Baby-led Weaning, or infant self-feeding.
- Transition from spoon-feeding to self-feeding successfully.
- Know what to do if your baby is struggling with solids.
How will our Infant Course help you?
Our two-hour Infant Course was created for busy parents who need practical, expert guidance on demand, all in one place.
This course will walk you through:
- How to know your baby is ready for solid foods and prepping them for success.
- What foods to serve your baby and when.
- How to prepare foods so your baby can eat them.
- Choking hazards and keeping your baby safe.
- Allergenic foods and nutrition.
- Scheduling and milk feeds and introducing cups.
- Evidence-based techniques for babies struggling with solids.
- Milk feeds, scheduling and weaning off breast or bottle feeding when you’re ready.
With this course, you also get 14 bonus printables – a $159 value – which include:
- Baby-led Weaning Food Guide
- Baby’s First Grocery List
- Meal Plan
- Cooking Crash Course
- Choking Hazards
- “It Takes a Village” printable for grandparents and daycare providers
…and more.
Why Feeding Littles?
- Get judgment-free expert advice from dietitian Megan McNamee MPH, RDN and feeding therapist Judy Delaware OTR/L, CLC.
- Take our course on your terms – watch it, read it or listen to it podcast-style.
- 30-day money back guarantee.
- Unlimited on-demand course access.
- Invitation to our Clients Only Facebook Group.
Become part of a community.
When you purchase our course, you’ll get access to our Clients Only Facebook Group, where you’ll find support from other parents and our Feeding Littles Team. You’ll also become part of a community of like-minded parents who share tips, answer questions and offer encouragement – without the judgement you might find in so many places on the Internet.
We are so thankful for the Feeding Littles Infant Course!
“I’ve been a terribly picky eater my whole life and I so desperately wanted our daughter to enjoy all kinds of foods. She is just barely one, and she is already such an adventurous and intuitive eater. It has been so fun to watch her experience new tastes, flavors and textures. Our family is always very impressed when they come to visit and can see how well she does with us at the table.”
Common Questions
Infant Course
What is Baby-led Weaning?
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.
Does your Infant Course teach only Baby-led Weaning?
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.
How old should my baby be when I take your course?
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.
How long is the Infant Course?
The core content of the course is 2 hours long. Additional sections like troubleshooting, smart spoon feeding and cooking methods take up to 1.5 additional hours if taken in their entirety, but many clients do not need all of the content in this course. To customize your learning experience and cut down on run time, the Infant Course can be watched as videos, listened to podcast-style or read as a script.
My baby was premature. Can I take your Infant Course?
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!
I’m not breastfeeding. Can I take your Infant Course?
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.
We started with purees and baby foods. Will your Infant Course help me?
Absolutely! Our course helps you move toward successful self-feeding, no matter what texture your baby eats now. In our Troubleshooting and Smart Spoon-feeding sections, we talk all about how to transition babies off of spoon-feeding and purees. Baby struggling to transition? We also detail a Texture Graduation Protocol that can help.
