Hi Nikki and Jeanette and everyone else,
 
Gill Rapley sent me a copy of her wonderful DVD, Baby-Led Weaning, last
year.  I, too, loved it!  Her approach is very in tune with our
breastfeeding philosophy -- give the baby the opportunity to feed, then
trust the baby to get the quantity and quality of foods he/she needs.  Gill
asked me if Platypus Media would carry the product in North America so folks
could purchase it without having to order it from the UK.   We readily
agreed.
 
Because we felt that Baby-Led Weaning did not explain the concept well, we
had it reproduced with a new title: 

I Can Feed Myself! A Baby-Led Approach To Introducing Solid Foods 

and it is available on both DVD and VHS.  You can watch of clip of it at
<http://platypusmedia.com/dvds_weaning.shtml>
http://platypusmedia.com/dvds_weaning.shtml.
 
- Dia
 
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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:13:43 EST

From: Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]>

Subject: self-feeding solids

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

_www.myspace.com/adonicalee 

 
 
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:53:32 -0800

From: Jeanette Panchula <[log in to unmask]>

Subject: self feeding solids

I know there was a discussion on Lactnet not long ago about a video showing

babies self-feeding once solids were ready to be introduced. I can't seem

to enter the right "key words" to find the messages - HELP - my grandson is

4 months old, and his parents are going crazy (feeds q 1 1/2 to 2 hours

'round the clock and mom is back to working full-time. Daddy, my son, is

babysitting but breastfeeding mom is getting exhausted so they were

wondering about starting solids now...).

...but the way, PLEASE no flames - this baby is in the 5th percentile and

his parents have been totally attachment parenting him since birth!

Co-bedding, co-sleeping, birth with not a LICK of medications and baby never

left parents' side even though he was a hospital birth. (They call their

side-car crib "the most expensive water bottle holder EVER" as baby has

never slept in it!)

Jeanette Panchula, BSW, RN, PHN, IBCLC

California, USA


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