Ying

“Babies who aren’t given the opportunity to chew food until they are quite a bit older than six months (10 months or more) are often fussy eaters later on.”
― Gill Rapley, The Baby-led Weaning Cookbook: Over 130 delicious recipes for the whole family to enjoy

“Your baby will start by handling food, learning what it looks and feels like, then she’ll use her mouth to discover its taste and texture. She may not actually eat any at first, but this is quite normal; her milk feeds (whether she is breast- or formula fed) are still providing almost all of her nutrition so she doesn’t need anything else yet.”
― Gill Rapley, The Baby-led Weaning Cookbook: Over 130 delicious recipes for the whole family to enjoy

“In addition to doing practical-life activities at home, many children by the time they are eighteen months old are ready to spend three hours a morning doing these (and other activities) in a setting outside their own home.”
― Paula Polk Lillard, Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three

“The first few months of BLW are not really about eating – they’re about exploring food.”
― Gill Rapley, The Baby-led Weaning Cookbook: Over 130 delicious recipes for the whole family to enjoy