Baby-Led Weaning vs. Purees with Yaffi Lvova

The Messy Intersection

Today on the show, I am talking to Yaffi Lvova, a registered dietitian nutritionist, teacher, speaker, author and mom of three.

Yaffi and I discuss:

• Our biggest challenges in food parenting
• Self-care in motherhood and the importance of having your own non-family pursuits
• The cultural evolution of infant feeding
• The distinction between feeding a baby healthy food and demonstrating that you have a baby who eats healthy foods
• How so many rules about baby-led weaning originated and whether they're helpful
• The role of a parent's anxiety in choosing to do baby-led weaning or purees with their infant
• How infants can learn to eat a family's cultural foods regardless of introduction method
• The hard and fast rules about starting solids, regardless of which method of introduction you use
• All about responsive feeding and how to incorporate the practice whether you are doing purees or baby-led weaning
• How getting starting solids "right" has a lot less to do with how or what you feed and much more to do with your own relationship with food

Yaffi's work:

• Nourishing Baby Food Cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Baby-Cookbook-Stage-Stage/dp/1648766188/
• The Stage-By-Stage Baby Food Cookbook: https://www.amazon.com/Stage-Stage-Baby-Food-Cookbook/dp/1641529717/
• Nap Time Nutrition Podcast: https://naptimenutrition.libsyn.com/

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Instagram: @babybloomnutrition

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Instagram: @baby.steps.dietitian

Visit Diana's website to learn more about her counseling services:
(https://dianakrice.com/) or explore her starting solids coaching service here: https://p.bttr.to/2YOikCv

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