Weaning

by Annabel Karmel

From the world's leading expert and bestselling author on baby and children's food and nutrition Annabel Karmel, comes the ultimate guide to starting children on solids. With basic but crucial details, such as types of spoons, portion size, and best feeding time, to larger issues, such as when to begin and allergy advice, Weaning provides all the fundamentals parents need and includes thirty new healthy, delicious recipes with twenty simple puree recipes to get started.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2010

Reviews

[Maya Osseiran]

Annabel needs to try olive oil asap.

[Trent]

Assumed every couple is a man and woman, over and over assumes everyone is breastfeeding, lots of really inaccurate info -- recommending white bread and pasta...??, very anti vegetarian/vegan (despite medical professionals disagreeing), and overall just very basic and nothing really original. Ridiculous number of fish recipes and recommendations don't match the high levels of mercury and other dangerous chemicals in seafood (there's a reason pregnant people aren't supposed to eat these foods...) overall found I didn't get almost anything new out of it and just very uninspired...

[Heather Rodgers]

Comprehensive and informative, a great resource which will no doubt be very helpful for my family as we start the weaning process.

[Rebecca Sheridan]

Some outdated or inaccurate information sully would could be a good book. Maybe a more updated version could help the reading experience.

[DeljM]

Not just recipes but info on weaning, nutrition and baby care during the process. I’d have liked less info and more recipes.

[Ana]

Best thing about this book were the cod recipes, as we don’t eat much of this and the baby enjoyed!

[Laura]

This is a great introductory book for parents thinking about weaning their babies. Although I'm not starting to wean my son for a couple of months, it pays to be prepared so I thought this book would be a good place to start.

The aims and objectives of weaning are clear; the book identifies why you wean your baby at a certain age (it recommends six months), and where to begin. It lists the essentials to buy, although not everyone will be doing baby led weaning of course. The author clearly advocates BL weaning, which is fine, but I would have liked to read some more justification for the alternatives.

For those wanting to make their own baby puréed foods, a large portion of the book is full of recipes. I will definitely try making a couple of those.

Overall, a great introduction to weaning and reassurance for anxious parents of young babies.

[Diana]

Straightforward, simple to follow, perty pictures (albeit with obvious product placement for AK's range of baby weaning gear).

Great recipes that my daughter has loved. Highly recommend for recipe ideas for babies 6-12 months.

[Jules (Never enough time to read)]

It has some useful tips, but nothing that I didn't already know. I will definitely try out some of the recipes.

Really, it was a useful basic read that made me feel a little less overwhelmed at the thought of weaning my baby.

[Anna Taylor]

I'm excited to try some of the advice and recipes in this book. I have a picky eater, so I picked this up to get some ideas for him. I find it really helpful she has age recommendations for recipes and it's broken up chronologically. I do think some tips are over the top, but to each their own!

[Jemma]

Not fascinating but a good guide to the process, which we are largely following.