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Starting Solid Foods
Eating/chewing solid foods aids/continues oral development and widening the jaw/palate over time - to help with not only eating more complex foods over time, but also improving oral function for other purposes including speech, airway development, sleep and more. Here are some of my favorite resources for getting ready for this exciting new chapter!
Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro and Solid Starts have many resources - here are just a few specific ones, and feel free to look around the sites for more!
What is baby led weaning article
6-7 month old babies podcast episode
8-9 month old babies podcast episode
10-11 month old babies podcast episode
12 month old babies podcast episode
What comes after 12 months podcast episode
Introducing allergenic foods podcast episode
Solid Starts Instagram page
Sleep
Trust your instincts - babies and toddlers wanting to be with you is normal! These resources balance the challenges of the normalcy of loss of sleep with evidence-based info about human sleep. Let’s live in a world that says “hey, infants and children wake up a lot and that’s normal! But, it’s also tiring so let’s support each other”. This is a much better message than “I can fix your baby”, or your baby “should sleep x hours” (no baby is the same!).
Sweet Sleep by Diane Weissinger and Diana West
Safe Infant Sleep by James McKenna (and his website - James McKenna Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory)
The No Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley
Nursing Older Babies and Toddlers
Lovely Instagram videos by Emma Picket - Q&A about weaning and When your child is distressed while weaning
No Cry Sleep Solution - there are toddler and preschool editions too
Some books that are a bit older (1999/2000) so there may be a few ideas/phrases that are “behind the times" but are still great books overall - How Weaning Happens and Mothering your Nursing Toddler
I also list many books, podcasts and youtube channels that have info on these topics as well!
