How to Talk to Your Pediatrician About BLW with @pedsdoctalk Mona Amin, DO
- What to do if your pediatrician does not support your choice to do baby-led weaning...including how to talk about important issues like iron levels, growth faltering, and nutrient gaps (all of which your baby is NOT at risk for if you do BLW!)
- Why she decided to make the switch from traditional spoon-feeding of purees to baby-led weaning with her son Ryaan...and how her own family wasn't entirely on board at first (but they eventually came to love BLW and now brag about how well Ryaan eats!)
- How to talk to your doctor about baby-led weaning even if you're not super confident in your own decision to do self-feeding
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Episode Description
What if my doctor isn’t on board with baby-led weaning? How do I talk to my pediatrician about baby-led weaning? Help! My doctor said baby-led weaning isn’t safe or it doesn’t work!! If you’ve dealt with or wondered about any of these scenarios, fear not because pediatrician Mona Amin is here to help you sort things out!
In this episode Dr. Amin is sharing some practical tips for talking about baby-led weaning with your doctor. If you’re worried about choking or how to introduce allergenic foods safely to your baby, she’ll coach you through the important talking points to have these important discussions with your doctor.
As a BLW mom herself plus a practicing pediatrician, Dr. Amin is the face behind the wildly popular instagram account @pedsdoctalk and host of The Peds Doc Talk podcast. In this interview she’s sharing her own baby-led weaning story about her son Ryaan as well as advice on how to talk to family members and practitioners who may not be totally on board with baby-led weaning (yet!)
About the Guest
- Dr. Mona Amin is a board-certified general pediatrician who grew up in Southern California where she majored in Psychobiology from UCLA. She attended Osteophathic Medical School at ATSU-Soma in Arizona and completed her residency at the Bernard and Millie Duker Children’s Hospital in New York.; now in Florida
- She is board-certified through the American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Dr. Amin’s mission is to help parents understand how they can implement strategies to help foster healthy habits from a young age.
Links from this Episode
- Follow Dr. Mona Amin on Instagram @pedsdoctalk
- Check out Dr. Mona’s podcast The Peds Doc Talk podcast here
- Her website is here & the new YouTube channel she is launching is here
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- Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners
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