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The Baby-led Weaning Cookbook: Over 130 delicious recipes for the whole family to enjoy Kindle Edition

by Gill Rapley (Author), Tracey Murkett (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,798 ratings
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An illustrated cookbook full of simple, nutritious and delicious recipes to share with the whole family, from the bestselling expert authors of Baby-led Weaning. With down-to-earth advice on how to broach weaning and make family mealtimes rewarding and enjoyable, The Baby Led Weaning Cookbook is a must-have for any parent!

'It sounds like common sense: after all, would you want to be strapped into a high chair and force-fed spoon after spoon of bland vegetables? It's surely much more exciting to be able to exercise a bit of control over your diet' -- Guardian
'[Baby-led weaning] could radically simplify infant feeding' -- Telegraph
'[Baby-led weaning] makes life so much easier' -- The Times
'Best baby book I bought' -- ***** Reader review
'If you buy one BLW cookbook - this is the one!' -- ***** Reader review
'Amazing!' -- ***** Reader review
'Love, love, love this book' -- ***** Reader review
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In Baby-led Weaning, leading health visitor Gill Rapley and journalist and mum Tracey Murkett introduced parents to a common sense, easy and enjoyable approach to feeding your child, allowing your baby to join in with family meals right from the start of the weaning process.

Now The Baby-led Weaning Cookbook offers comprehensive recipes and meal plans to follow so the entire family can take part in making your child a happy and confident eater.

Full of healthy, delicious meals the whole family will enjoy, and beautifully illustrated throughout, The Baby-led Weaning Cookbook also includes:
- simple advice on how to start weaning
- essential at-a-glance information on nutrition and food safety
- recipes for desserts and family dinners, as well as ideas for quick snacks and lunch boxes
- anecdotes and quotes from parents

The Baby-led Weaning Cookbook will give parents the confidence to create exciting and enjoyable mealtimes, allowing their baby to develop their skills as they progress with food.

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    Ebury Digital
  6. Publication date
    April 24, 2012
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“This engaging resource features lots of recipes to encourage baby independence during weaning and should match the popularity of the previous guide.”
—Library Journal

About the Author

Gill Rapley has studied infant feeding and child development for many years. She worked as a public health nurse for over twenty years and has also been a midwife and a voluntary breastfeeding counselor. She developed the theory of baby-led weaning while studying babies’ developmental readiness for solids as part of her master’s degree and has since been awarded a PhD for research comparing spoon-feeding with self-feeding. Gill lives in Kent, England, with her husband and has three grown children, all of whom tried their best to show her that they didn’t need any help with solid foods.

Tracey Murkett is a writer, journalist, and breastfeeding peer supporter. After following baby-led weaning with her own daughter, she wanted to let other parents know how enjoyable and stress-free mealtimes with babies and young children can be. She lives in London with her partner and their daughter.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007Q2830Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ebury Digital; 14th edition (April 24, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 24, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6618 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,798 ratings

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Gill Rapley is the pioneering champion of baby-led weaning. She has studied infant feeding and child development for many years, gaining a Masters degree in 2005 and a PhD in 2015. She worked as a health visitor (public health nurse) for more than 20 years, and has also been a midwife, lactation consultant, and breastfeeding counselor. She lives in Kent, England, with her husband, and has three grown-up children, all of whom tried their best to show her that they didn’t need any help with solid foods.

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We use this cookbook all the time. Full disclaimer, we only purchased the cookbook, not the full BLW book after some feedback from friends that the cookbook's introduction and online resources are more than enough information. My guy has liked almost all of the recipes, and has really introduced him to new flavors. It has also helped my husband and me deciding 'whats for dinner' as we like the recipes too. The portions are for two adults and 1 infant, and we have found them to be perfect. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in BLW and needs some ideas for what to make! (photo is of the Saag Paneer)
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Kate W
5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this instead of the BLW book!
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2012
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After borrowing the original "Baby Led Weaning" book and the previous edition of the cookbook from the library, I can confidently say that this cookbook is better and more useful than the BLW book. The first 40 pages of the cookbook cover thoroughly why baby led weaning is a good idea and basic tips. Really, any more than that (as in the BLW book) gets repetitive and dull. Then this cookbook has over 100 pages of recipes.

I like the recipes. The authors are British, and the recipes reflect a broad variety of tastes. Tonight we had "Fish Cakes" (pg 111) for dinner, which my husband declared to be surprisingly good for coming from a baby cookbook. My eight month old had a blast. I like that the recipes are written for "1 adult and 1 baby" or "2 adults and 1 baby" to be convenient for small families. I'm sure larger families could just double the recipes. The book is also pleasingly designed overall, but it would have been nice to have pictures of the food.

Just so you know, I'm not a baby led weaning die hard. My daughter eats jarred baby food at daycare, but we are trying baby led weaning at home for dinners and weekends. This book has helped me have more confidence about what and how I feed my daughter. I highly recommend it!
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D. Maguire
5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful Book for BLW newbies!
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2013
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When my second son turned 6 months old, I got out my baby food purée cookbooks, my silicone ice cube trays, and spent an afternoon whizzing up purées in the food processor. Anxiously, I set him up in his high chair for dinner with a feast of pear and zuchinni purées. I dipped the spoon into the purée, brought it to his mouth, and watched as he then tightened his lips, turned his head, and then cried. It went on like this for a few weeks, and I hated to think I was making mealtime a stressful experience, so I spoke to his pediatrician and she clued me into baby led weaning.

I bought several books about BLW, but this is my favorite. Simple, healthy recipes to make for baby, plus our toddler son likes them too! I'm happy to say that now, at 7 months, our little guy IS opening his mouth for solid foods. It's going to be a longer (and messier) process than with our first, but this cookbook has helped me with new ideas to try, and because our son is responding happily to the food I've made, mealtime is fun again!
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Meg
4.0 out of 5 stars good
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2013
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I was looking for ideas for my 7 month old who would have nothing to do with baby food. After 3 months of trying to force feed him baby food I had basically decided I needed to try table foods, but was not sure how to go about it. He didn't have the fine motor skills for feeding himself bite-size pieces of food and I was worried about him choking, so this book was a great resource for me getting started. Some reviewers have said you could get all this information on the internet or that it's common sense, but for me having a thorough set of guidelines all in one place has been extremely helpful (I started with the internet and didn't find all the information I was looking for). I also took the advice of many reviewers who advised this over the original book, bc it opens with several chapters that give you all the informaion you need regarding "baby led weaning" and I agree. I actually haven't even used the recipes yet bc with the ideas in the first chapters I've been able to modify our family meals to suit my baby without needing any new recipes, but I read through them and plan on using some of them when I find the time! There's a lot of helpful information including healthy guidelines for babies (like they need as little salt as possible bc their kidneys aren't developed), preparing food to suit their developing fine motor skills at different stages, how babies learn to chew and swallow (including the difference between choking and gagging), and what to expect (a lot of playing and exploring food with their mouth with a gradual move toward more actual eating), etc. Some of it has really helped me to know what to do and other parts are just reassuring to me that he's not going to choke and that it's ok to just offer him food and see what he does rather than stressing about how much he's actually eating. It's been really helpful to me. My baby has been much happier with feeding himself than me trying to feed him and he is gradually eating more! It is so nice to sit down and eat a family meal together, just put food on his tray and let me do his thing, rather than trying to feed an unwilling baby! I still get a little nervous about choking and food allergies (there's not a lot of info on food allergies), but so far so good. It definitely beats the alternative for my baby. I ordered it on Kindle and if I had it to do over I would prefer the paper copy - it's easier to me to bookmark a real book than on the kindle, so a book that's a resource is nice to have the paper version.
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Claire T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great cookbook for babies and adults!
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2012
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I didn't find this great little cookbook until my baby was 12 months old. By that time she was able to eat things mostly without me having to cut them up into tiny pieces. I think this is a great time to start making recipes from this book, because if your kid doesn't have teeth (mine had 8 teeth when I bought this) it would be difficult for them to eat a lot of food prepared from these recipes.

The book goes into why it's good to let baby chomp on large pieces of food, and not cut them up into tiny pieces which frequently cause choking. So I let my baby chew on a whole dinner roll and she was in heaven, turning it around and around in her hands and taking tiny little bites out. This book has many great recipes like mac n cheese, sardines and tomatoes on toast, chickpea patties, and some desserts. There is a sugar free carrot cake that is sweetened with raisins, dates, coconut, and our little one LOVES it.

I love this book because none of these recipes are very complicated, none of them take hours to make, which makes them perfect for weeknight dinners. All the recipes are meant for 2 adults and 1 baby which is great because it's exactly our family. You can easily scale up the recipe if you have more kids. All the recipes I've made so far are easy to read and follow, and my little one loves watching me make her dinner, I can't wait to get her involved when she's just a little older.
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Ujjawal
4.0 out of 5 stars Quite informative for new Moms
Reviewed in India on January 14, 2021
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Quite informative for new Moms, should add Indian recipes as well. Also, week wise schedule can be added for atleast 2 months.
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Kevy
5.0 out of 5 stars BLW es una excelente opción para introducir sólidos.
Reviewed in Mexico on August 21, 2017
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Si no sabes por donde empezar para introducir sólidos a los bebés, este libro es una excelente opción para tomar ideas y darle la mejor alimentación a tu hijo o hija. Super recomendado.
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julie pinole
5.0 out of 5 stars Much better than expected! Molto meglio di quello che me esperavo
Reviewed in Italy on March 25, 2018
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Great book, I was suspicious about this baby led thing initially, thinking it is just to be rendy, but it actually sounds great, and recipes are great, simple and very original altogether. We will try this approach!
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Kathkeen
5.0 out of 5 stars Plan de comida útil
Reviewed in Spain on January 11, 2018
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Me encanta la idea de que mi nieta puede sentarse en la mesa y comer con nosotros. A mi hijo no le gustó las papillas. Esta idea de todo tipo de comida desde el principio me parece muy razonable.
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Babz
5.0 out of 5 stars Meal time is now fun!
Reviewed in Australia on April 9, 2020
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This really helped me wrap my head around BLW and made it fun instead of daunting. My lil bub looves most of the stuff in this book and it has made family meal times way more enjoyable. Thank you!
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