Dear Friends:
 
Jeanette is referring to Gill Rapley's wonderful DVD about "baby-led  
weaning" available from Mark-It TV in the UK.
 
Gill is a wonderful conference speaker. She describes babies  abilities; they 
can self-attach (feed themselves) at birth, and can feed  themselves at the 
toddler stage. She wonders if the feeding difficulty parents  encounter during 
the transition stage  between breast and solids  is due to babies wanting to 
feed themselves, and not being   permitted to do so.
 
She has lovely views of the same baby at different ages dealing with food. 
As with walking, babies are ready for solids at different ages. The same  
principle in place with breastfeeding (let baby set the pace) is true for eating  
solids and for walking.
 
The baby held in someone's lap during a meal watches the fork go back and  
forth between the plate and the adult's mouth. One day, baby grabs and starts  
playing (i.e. practicing) with the solid food. Because breastfeeding exposes 
the  baby to all the proteins in the mother's diet and a breastfed baby has a 
strong  immune system, there is no worry about what that first food will be. 
 
The video shows how discriminating, and careful and focused babies are when  
learning to deal with solids. 
 
I recommend this DVD............and have no commercial attachment or link  to 
it.
 
warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner
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