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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Solid Starts and baby led weaning (AKA bragging about feeding choking hazards with zero studies to prove there are long term benefits)

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maybe i'm doing solid starts wrong-- but isn't the point for me to learn how to cut/prep the food?  My mother and mother in law always think i'm being over the top anxious as I follow it religiously as they would be happy to give much bigger chunks of choking hazard and feed my one year old nuts/seeds/etc? [/quote]

The main thing I don’t like about solid starts and baby led weaning (and yes, I have the app and read the food prep for maybe 100 foods) is that it instructs you to give food in big pieces. It’s like they think all 6-12 month olds have zero teeth. Guess what: if you give an 8 month old baby with teeth a whole strawberry or a quarter of an avocado (those as exactly their suggestions for serving), they can break off massive pieces with their teeth and choke. I know a child who did actually choke on a strawberry this way. Parents had to do CPR and call an ambulance. They were huge Solid Starts fans until that. My own daughter bit off huge, unsafe chunks of so many foods they recommended serving whole before I realize what total lunacy it was and went to soft foods and purées like sane previous generations.

By age 2 you cannot tell one bit who did baby led weaning or purées. My daughter had perfectly spaced teeth, zero picky preferences, and a great palate. I’m angry it’s pitched like fact when it’s just an unsafe fad.[/quote]

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