Safe High Chair Positioning

Katie Ferraro (0s):

When it comes to the allergenic foods, there's one that parents always complain about making safe for their babies. Can you guess it? It's shellfish. Shellfish is hard, especially if you don't cook a lot of shrimp or crab or crustaceans or mollusks regularly. But this week I'm making shrimp, which is the type of shellfish for baby Ezra. So he's my friend's baby that I'm making all of his 100 First Foods. And each week I prep the five new foods for the following week. So we're going into week eight of my 100 First Foods daily meal plan. And the five new foods that Ezra's gonna be trying this week are plum, parsnip, quinoa, bison, and then shrimp for his allergenic food. And so for shrimp, I'm doing this really simple Thai shrimp cakes recipe because I do not do whole intact cooked shrimp for early eaters.

Katie Ferraro (47s):

It's not safe, but you can make shrimp safe for babies with a few simple modifications. If you're interested in learning more about, oh, how do you actually make these foods safe for baby-led weaning and you wanna see it, the best place to get started is my free online video workshop called Baby-Led Weaning For Beginners. I just redid this whole training. It's so good. There's so many visuals of how to prep the food safely and ideas on what to feed your baby for the first 10 days of baby-led weaning, plus a whole section on making allergenic foods like shrimp safe for your baby to eat. Everybody on this workshop gets a copy of my original 100 First Foods list, so you'll never run out of ideas for your baby to eat. You can sign up at workshop.babyledweaning.co.

Katie Ferraro (1m 29s):

You can register, you can take it now. You can take it later today when your baby's napping or sleeping or tomorrow if you've got some time, can clear your schedule to really dedicate yourself to learning about how to do baby-led weaning safely. Again, that signup is at workshop.babyledweaning.co and I'd love to see you there. Has your baby tried the potentially allergenic food tree nut yet? So tree nut is separate from peanut. It's one of the big nine allergenic foods. Those are the foods that you wanna introduce early and often to help prevent food allergy. But we can't do thick globs of nut butter or intact nuts for babies because these are choking hazards. So my favorite way to introduce tree nut is by using the Puff Works Baby Almond Puffs. So Puff Works Baby Almond Puffs.

Katie Ferraro (2m 10s):

They're not those little tiny star puffs that you see at the store. You buy these online, they're longer shaped, they're kind of like the length of a Cheeto, I would say, and they have no added sugar and just a smidge of sodium for preservative, which I love. The Puff Works Baby Almond Puffs are also super soft, so they dissolve really easily in your baby's mouth. And these are safe to offer even before your baby has teeth. You can get 15% off the Puff Works Baby Almond Puffs with my affiliate discount code "Baby Led". If you go to puffworks.com and just a heads up that the Puff Works Baby Almond Puffs also contain peanut. So make sure you've done peanut a number of times on its own without reaction before you try out the Almond Puffs. If you're over on their site at puffworks.com, pick up a case of the baby peanut puffs and then a case of the baby almond puffs.

Katie Ferraro (2m 56s):

And that way you've got two of the big nine allergenic food categories knocked off in a no-stress low-mess way. Again, the code for Puff Works is "baby led" for 15% off at puffworks.com and happy feeding. And for families that don't have a regular table height table, if you have bar height or counter height, the highchairs don't reach that high, right? Because the high chair tip test, those high chairs would never pass the high chair tip test if they were that elevated. And then even if they did pass the tip test at that height, the base or the footprint of the highchair that would be required in order to pass the test would be so big that this would be like a massive like ladder-esque high chair in the middle of your kitchen, which you definitely would not want.

Katie Ferraro (3m 40s):

Hey there, I'm Katie Ferraro, registered dietitian, college nutrition professor and mom of seven specializing in baby-led weaning. Here on the Baby-Led Weaning Made Easy podcast, I help you strip out all of the noise and nonsense about feeding, leading you with the confidence and knowledge you need to give your baby a safe start to solid foods using baby-led weaning. Well, hello and welcome back. Today we're going to be talking about Safe High Chair Positioning. So what are the things that you can do to ensure that even before your baby takes their very first bite that they're seated properly in a safe highchair? Now, I've done a couple of other highchair related episodes in the past with different angles.

Katie Ferraro (4m 25s):

So one of the earliest ones is episode seven, Why Your Baby's Highchair Needs a Footrest. We'll talk a little bit about the importance of footrest, but I go into way more detail in it in episode seven. So if you go to BLWpodcast.com/7, that's really basic info about the footrest. In episode 92, I had Kirsti Vandraas on, she's an ergonomist who works for Peter Opsvik. So he is the designer who created both the Nomi Highchair and the Tripp Trapp highchair. So the Stokke Tripp Trapp high chair, we'll talk a little bit about today. And then the later iteration of of his highchair for the next generation, his grandchildren essentially is called the Nomi Highchair. And she's talking all about How to Choose a Safe Seat for Your Baby to Eat. That interview is episode 92.

Katie Ferraro (5m 7s):

And then I also had Jeff Durkey from Nomi Highchair. He's previously worked with Stokke and the Trip Trapp at the time of that interview. He's working with Nomi since that time. Stokke now assumed the rights to sell the Nomi highchair in the United States. So they're selling both the Tripp Trapp and the Nomi. So things have kind of changed a little bit. And for transparency sake, I want to disclose my previous financial relationships with highchair companies. I was previously an affiliate for Nomi Highchair. I no longer am now that they've been assumed by Stokke, but I have and continue to do paid work with Stokke to help promote the Tripp Trapp Highchair as a practical application here. I use both of those high chairs, the Stokke Trip Trapp and the Nomi High chair for all seven of my kids.

Katie Ferraro (5m 52s):

My kids are older now, but we have their chairs. We use the Nomi chairs around our breakfast table. And then I have Tripp Trapps that they use for their homework. And I love those because both of those chairs have adjustable footrests. And we'll talk about the importance of that today. So I purchased most of those myself. Some of them were gifted. And when I work with babies, I use either the Nome or the Tripp Trapp. And then if it's a gifted high chair, I always disclose that as well. I like to start each of these mini training episodes with a baby-led weaning tip of the day. And the tip I want to share with you today is that you do not need to spend a lot of money to provide a safe seat for your baby to eat. With a lot of the chairs that I've gotten for other families, I buy them off of Facebook Marketplace or OfferUp.

Katie Ferraro (6m 37s):

The Stokke Tripp Trapp Highchair, which is one of my two preferred highchair for baby-led weaning. It has been on the market since 1972. There are so many chairs in circulation. One of the problem is those chairs really hold their value and they're very well built. So you'll see some chairs that have been around for decades and grandkids are still eating on the same chairs that their parents ate on. But when families get done with them and they resell them, you can usually get a used Tripp Trapp for around $75 - $90 depending (this is in the United States) where you are geographically. So sometimes with the other chairs, let's say you buy a $30 high chair from Ikea and then you have to pay $30 to put an aftermarket footrest on it. 'cause that antelope high chair doesn't come with a footrest.

Katie Ferraro (7m 19s):

And then you buy one or two of the cute decoration things like the placemats and you're looking at, you've already spent a hundred dollars on a chair that's not nearly as safe as the Tripp Trapp and certainly will not grow with your child. So my tip is buy your used Tripp Trapp if you've got a highchair that you don't like. A lot of people get angry when we start teaching about highchairs. Like someone gave me the worst highchair like Yeah dude, I've been gifted so many bad highchairs. Some of them send to grandparents' houses, some of them we give away. Some of them literally were designed for the landfill in the first place. But if you can get your hands, you know, wherever your child is going to eat three times a day for the next 13 so odd years of their life in this one chair, it's worth spending a little bit of money on. But you can buy them used and you can retrofit chairs that you already have.

Katie Ferraro (7m 59s):

So we'll get into that today. I wanna share a quick story about the dumbest high chair I ever bought with my oldest child. I remember we were on vacation in Maine back when I had one kid and we could like fly and she was free and sat on our laps. It was the best. And she was like just starting solid foods And. we were at my husband's family's aunt's house and she had a highchair there and Molly was just sitting in it. She hadn't started solid foods yet. And I was like, oh, this chair is cool. And then I like started researching highchair and I saw this high chair, it's like, oh my gosh, I gotta get a highchair delivered when I get home 'cause we have to start solid food. So I ordered it from Maine and we live in San Diego and it was a chair, I don't wanna say the name of it 'cause I don't wanna brand bash, but the chair reclines, like the design feature was your baby can lay back in this chair. Guess what?

Katie Ferraro (8m 39s):

If you wanted to design a high chair that would choke a baby, you would put it in a reclining position, right? If your baby's back needs to be flat, I know this now, but this was like 10 years ago. I had absolutely no idea. Like I was like, well why would they sell a high chair that's unsafe. We're gonna get into that today 'cause a lot of high chairs out there are actually unsafe. This chair was like fancy. I remember I got it in orange and I was like, oh baby stuff in orange is kinda hard to come by. And I was like, this is totally in a pop in my breakfast nook. It took up like half of the breakfast nook by the way, plus it reclined, which is totally unsafe. You never want your baby in a reclining position when you're starting solid foods. And I know some people defend that chair like, oh well it's so the baby can lay back and feed themselves their own bottle. It's like, hmm, well high chairs are for eating food. So the inclination is if you can recline it, you should be reclining your baby when they eat food.

Katie Ferraro (9m 21s):

And that's certainly not the case. So remember when then we went, I had quadruplets after that had to get rid of the highchair, we got this quadruplet feeding table and I had to get rid of the highchair. And I remember like selling it on Craigslist and feeling so guilty like you know how you're like not supposed to sell your car seats and stuff like that. But I was like, well what's the deal with high chairs? Like you're technically allowed to sell them, but like I now know that this chair is dangerous. So like the guy that who bought it from, I gave him like a total discount. I was like, this is how much this chair costs. I hate it because it reclines. Now I specialize in infant feeding. Please don't ever let your babysit backwards. I'm sure he was like, man, can I just please have the high chair without the lecture? So anyway, the reclining high chair is kind of silly and completely unnecessary. Let's get into the actual meat of the episode talking about Safe High Chair Positioning. And we're talking about when babies are starting solid foods at or around six months of age, we want you to choose a sturdy highchair.

Katie Ferraro (10m 6s):

You have to ensure that the highchair is stable with a wide base to prevent tipping over. Now you don't have to worry about this in most countries because there are standards. So the highchair tip test for example, it's a safety evaluation that's conducted on highchair and it's intended to assess their stability and their resistance to tipping over. Okay, nobody's talking about choking here as a dietitian specializing infant feeding my concern about your baby being safe in a high chair. Yes, I don't want them to tip over and fall out, but I would also like them not to choke on foods. And so you'll notice as we go through kind of what's involved in the tip test, it only cares about not tipping over. It doesn't really give any credence to, well is this chair designed to help reduce the risk of choking? So in the United States, the safety standards are primarily established and regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the CPSC.

Katie Ferraro (10m 53s):

So this is a federal agency that's responsible for ensuring the safety of consumer products, including children's and baby products like highchair. So with the tip test, it's like a specific amount of force that's applied to the highchair in lots of directions to assess its stability and its tipping resistance with the goal being to ensure that this chair is gonna stay stable. The kid is not gonna tip over it even when a child leans or pushes on it, which those of you with older babies know or older children, they're going to test it, right? So this test is evaluating the high chair stability when the kid is seated and actively using it. And then if the chair passes the test, it's considered to be safe for use. So in the United States, high chairs are subject to these stringent safety standards that, and that's their language set forth by the CPSC and the goal is to help reduce the risk of injuries.

Katie Ferraro (11m 41s):

So some other factors that highchair, you know, they're looking at to see, okay, stability and tip resistance. We touched on that about passing the highchair tip test that has a safety harness or restraint system. So highchair are required to have a safety harness or a restraint system to secure the child in the chair to prevent them from falling or climbing out. That's the end of the the legalese. This is me, the dietitian chiming in, but your six month old baby doesn't crawl and they're not going to climb out. And so I never put the straps on the Tripp Trapp or the Nomi high chair early on in baby-led weaning. If when there's a higher risk of choking when you're just starting solid foods, I don't wanna be fumbling with straps that by the way, you don't even need 'cause your baby's not gonna climb out if I need to quickly extract that baby from the highchair and administer back blows and CPR.

Katie Ferraro (13m 31s):

When the child becomes older and they start pushing up and popping up on their feet on the footrest and they're trying to climb out and they're starting to crawl, heck yeah, then you put the straps on. But that's to those two particular chairs because I know that they come with a baby guard that holds the baby in. There are some other chairs where you certainly do need the harness right from the outset because there's nothing else holding the baby in and they could like literally fall out. And with baby-led weaning, our ultimate intent is to pull the baby up to the table. And so part of the reason why Peter Opsvik designed the Stokke Tripp Trapp back in 1972, it was designed without a tray intended to be pulled up to the table so that the baby can begin participating in family meals from their first bites. But there's this like plastic baby guard that's attached to the chair, which I generally will keep on until the baby's around 15 ish months of age or so.

Katie Ferraro (14m 16s):

Usually they like just get too big to fit in there anymore. Then when you remove the baby set from either the Nomi, from the Tripp Trapp, then you certainly do need to put the straps on. But there'll be a period when your baby starts crawling around eight, nine months of age or trying to get outta the chair where you need to have the baby set and the straps on. But I do not do the straps from the earliest ages. I say that and some people point out, well how come in your content you will sometimes have the baby strapped in? If I'm being paid by the brand, the lawyer say you have to, you can only feature the baby with the straps on. So I'll be like, here's the baby strapped in. And again, the the straps on the hydra, they're not harmful. They do sometimes impede the baby's ability to like cross their midline and sometimes they're like way too big for for the early eaters. But I will put them on if that's what the brand wants.

Katie Ferraro (14m 56s):

'cause it's not dangerous to do so because I know how to get the baby out of that high chair very quickly if I needed to. It's like with your baby's car seat, like remember how hard it was for you. You're fumbling around with the straps when you're trying to get them in the car seat to take the hole from the hospital and you're like, this could take me an hour to get this baby in and out of the car seat. And then like a few weeks later, like you could literally do it in your sleep. The same thing happens with the harness. Some other things that regulators are looking for with regards to safety in a highchair lead and phthalate content. So highchairs have to comply with regulations that limit the content of lead and certain phthalates which are harmful chemicals if they're using different materials used in construction. Also BPA restrictions. So highchair are subject to restrictions on the use of BPA.

Katie Ferraro (15m 36s):

That's a chemical found in some plastics in certain components like food contact surfaces and materials that may come into contact with the child. They have to be BPA free. And then like labeling and user instructions. Highchair should come with clear and comprehensive user instructions. My husband disagrees as the one who has always put these high chairs together, including information on proper assembly use and maintenance. Yeah, but we also always just go to YouTube and watch somebody else doing it much more efficiently than the manual will. And then recall reporting is important. So manufacturers have to report any defects or safety issues related to those highchairs promptly. And so in the case of product recalls, you know you guys see these all over social media, etc, but like consumers then have to be informed to take the necessary action. So that's what the regulators are looking for when they provide, you know, guidance on highchair safety.

Katie Ferraro (16m 18s):

But notice how none of that has to do with reducing choking risks. This is all about preventing physical harm or injury to the baby, which yeah, we need to do as well. But I just wanna acknowledge like there are no guidelines about footrest. And we do a lot of education on the importance of your baby having their feet resting flat on a solid footplate or footrest even when they are just starting solid foods. No dangling legs. Your baby who is learning how to eat is going to gag. When they gag, they're going to stomp their feet down, they're going to engage their core and they're going to utilize the head strength that they have and the neck control to push the food forward and outta the back of their mouth as they're learning how to eat. If they don't have the footrest upon which they can rest their feet to start that chain reaction of events, it increases the risk of choking.

Katie Ferraro (17m 1s):

And look at most highchairs, walk down the highchair aisle at Target. None of them have an adjustable footrest. A lot of these highchairs are very, very cheaply designed even though like other things at Target, right? Like they say like all the makeup comes outta like the same three factories and some of it's priced very high and some of it's priced very low. A lot of it's just marketing and branding. You are probably gonna have to take your fancy highchair and do some sort of a DIY with books or yoga blocks affixed with a bungee cord or Amazon boxes, whatever the case may be, to elevate the Footrest so that your baby's feet can be resting properly. A couple of other considerations about safe high chair positioning, we want your baby position in what I call the three by 90 setup- 90 degree angle at three points, 90 degrees at your baby's waist, 90 degrees at your baby's knees, and 90 degrees at your baby's ankle every single day.

Katie Ferraro (17m 45s):

I personally answer all of the dms on my Instagram. I do have like a very, very robust cut and paste doc that that helps me. But that's me in there adding my own 2 cents. And a lot of the questions are Katie, my high chair is too big for my baby, their feet stick straight out. I can get their waist at a 90 degree angle, but there's no way I can get their knees or their ankles at 90 degree angle. Well then do not feed your baby in that position. You need to push your baby's bottom forward and in order to support them, I know they're sitting up on their own 'cause we're not starting solid foods until your baby can sit on their own. But you may have to roll up a towel or two or a pillow or a jacket, whatever. You may have to keep your baby from swimming around in the high chair. I'll kind of wedge it between their back to help keep their back flat and push that bottom as far forward as you can within, you know, if it has straps, you have to take that into consideration.

Katie Ferraro (18m 30s):

Something. These highchairs have a massive like bubble that goes between the crotch that impedes the ability to push the baby forward. Can we take the tray off of that highchair and put the straps on the baby, bring them up to the table or whatever the feeding surface may be if the tray is getting in the way. And sometimes the answer is just no. And we have to buy a very affordable portable high chair that we can make some adjustments to until the time where the baby's knees can be at the 90 degree angles so that their ankles can be at the 90 degree angles. I realized before in researching for this episode, I don't think I've ever done an episode on the podcast about portable highchairs. I do tons of visual stuff like on YouTube and on Instagram about portable highchairs. And we have blog posts about them, but I'm gonna do an episode on portable highchairs that are very, very affordable. I think it's worth having one to begin with.

Katie Ferraro (19m 11s):

Some families end up just buying it 'cause they're like, oh shoot, my big highchair doesn't work yet. And if you can't return it or give it back, whatever the case may be, you just use a portable one in the meantime until your baby can fit. So the three by 90 setup is 90 degrees at the waist, 90 degrees at the knees, and 90 degrees at the ankles. So having your baby seated properly with their feet resting on that solid foot plate, those to me are the most important considerations before your baby starts solid foods. Now if you have to use a tray, so I talked about the high chair tip test, the high chairs that are designed that pass the tip test, they don't go as high as bar height or counter height. So we have some families who only have like a bar height or counter height, either bar area to eat at or a bar height or counter height table.

Katie Ferraro (19m 52s):

If the high chair were high enough to reach that, the footprint or the base of the high chair would've to be so big to pass the tip test that you would like never want that height chair in your kitchen. And to be honest, a lot of like the conventional high chairs that you can buy out there, the footprint is already so big. You're like, oh my gosh. People in small spaces are like, this thing is taking a half of my kitchen. One thing I love about the Stokke Tripp Trapp and the Nomi high chair is that they have very small footprints. So they pass the tip test and there's different regulations in different parts of the world. But the Stokke Tripp Trapp has been around since 1972 and it's like, you know, millions and millions of them sold universally available. The Nomi only received approval in the United States was around the time my twins were starting solid foods.

Katie Ferraro (20m 31s):

I think that was like 2018 ish. So I've used both of those chairs with all of my kids and I like that they, they look nice. Often laugh though, the most expensive piece of furniture in our house is a Nomi highchair. The Nomi certainly on the pricier side and because it's newer, there's not as many of them on the used market. So that's a little bit of a bummer. But I've done a lot of comparisons between the highchairs. I think pick the one that works for you when it comes down to cost. A lot of times you're gonna be more inclined to find a used Tripp Trapp on the market that you can get for less than a hundred bucks, which I think is a very good deal. These are chairs that hold up to around 300 pounds so they will grow with your child through adolescents. Your kids still needs to have their feet resting flat on the solid foot plate even after they pass infancy, right? That's important for reducing choking risk. It helps children with concentration. See this a lot with homework.

Katie Ferraro (21m 12s):

Once my kids started sitting in their chairs for homework and they're less fidgety 'cause their feet are resting flat, we can get done with homework faster and it's always a win for me.

Katie Ferraro (22m 30s):

When you're choosing a high chair, if it has an adjustable seat and an adjustable footrest, that is ideal, okay? Because it's not just the footrest. I love both the Nomi and the Tripp Trapp because the seat height changes as well. And I've got my nine year old sitting in her tripp Trapp for homework, my quad sitting in their Nomi for breakfast, whatever the case may be because both the seat and the footrest adjust. And then when babies come over and I turn my kitchen when they're at school into a baby feeding, I don't wanna say farm, that sounds bad, but like a baby feeding environment, right? So we're doing video shoots and recipe testing and helping other families start solid foods. I can take all of their chairs and in like five seconds, convert them back into high chairs. It's not like you have to keep a high chair in your garage if someone comes over with a baby, which I absolutely love because I love having babies over to eat.

Katie Ferraro (23m 13s):

But back to the tip test. Remember those high chairs are not gonna be able to reach to bar height or counter height, in which case you may need to put a tray on the chair and both the Stokka trip Trapp and the Nomi height chair come with a tray. So if you had to, or for outdoor dining, you can put the tray on there. The tray, there's no hard and fast rules about where the tray should fall, but it should be around your baby's nipple line. Okay? A lot of the trays go like up to the baby's neck parents sending these pictures and it's like, is the tray choking the baby? The baby's so slouched down. It's like designed for literally a two year old who you wouldn't keep in a traditional high chair with a tray at two years of age. They should definitely be eating at the the table. Like who designed this thing is like the tray is at the baby's neck. There's no way that the baby is going to have that full range of motion with their arms that we know they need to learn how to eat safely.

Katie Ferraro (23m 57s):

So when you're repositioning your baby, sometimes putting a cushion on them, putting a pillow behind them like you're doing some adaptations to your highchair to make that tray hit around their nipple line, which is ideal. But in a best case scenario, take the tray off if you can and get the baby up to the table. One other thing regarding Safe High Chair Positioning, which is a little bit adjacent, but is in the importance of taking a refresher infant CPR course before your baby starts solid foods. I like to remind parents that the research shows us that there's no higher risk of choking when you start solid foods with a baby-led approach compared to conventional adult-led spoonfeeding. But that's provided only when parents are educated about reducing choking risk. So having listened to this episode to this point, you know the most important components of reducing choking risk, baby seated in a high chair with their back flat waist at 90 degrees, knees at 90 degrees, angles at 90 degrees, and those feet are resting flat on a solid foot plate.

Katie Ferraro (24m 46s):

We don't want a tray impeding with their ability to have a full range of motion. You do have a tray, make sure it's one where your baby can cross their midline and reach around and pick the foods up. That's important when they're learning how to eat. So you are doing your part there to help reduce the risk of choking. You also need to make sure that you're preparing the foods safely. So that's where my program, Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro with our 100 first foods content library, my 100 first day's meal plan comes into effect. I can teach you how to make all of these foods safe for your baby's different ages and stages. If you wanna check that out, you can go to babyledweaning.co/program, but you also should know CPR. So knowing CPR can save your child's life, I recommend that all parents take an infant refresher CPR course before they start solid foods.

Katie Ferraro (25m 31s):

And anybody who is involved in taking care of and particularly feeding your baby should also know CPR. There's a wonderful online CPR course that I myself take each quarter I have a link to it where you're listening to this podcast episode. The affiliate discount code Katie10 will take an additional $10 off. And if you're particularly anxious about choking, I do teach a choking prevention and response course with a certified CPR instructor and a speech language pathologist who specializes in pediatric swallowing. That's on the same page as where the CPR class is. So if you click that, the code Katie10 works for $10 off of both of those, and you can do your part to educate yourself to reduce choking risks so that when you do start solid foods, you're giving your baby and you're setting them up for success to learn how to safely start solid foods.

Katie Ferraro (26m 16s):

I will link all of the resources from this episode as well as some other episodes about highchair safety in the shownotes for this episode, which you can find at BLWpodcast.com/377. A special thank you to our partners at AirWave Media. You guys like podcasts that feature food and science and using your brain, check out some of the podcasts from AirWave. We're online at BLWpodcast.com. Thank you so much for listening. If you're interested in doing baby-led weaning, but you're not exactly sure, like what does that mean? What does it look like? Where do I start? My online program called Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro has everything you need to give your baby a safe start to solid foods and get them to eat over a hundred foods before they turn one, whether you're terrified of choking or maybe you've started but you feel like you're feeding your baby the same foods over and over 'cause you don't know what to feed next, or you're looking for guidance on how to prepare foods safely for your baby's age and stage.

Katie Ferraro (27m 17s):

My program has exactly what you need. There's five hours of concise self-paced video training. You can knock this thing out during nap time this week. You also get access to my hundred first foods content library so you can see and learn exactly how to prep all of the a hundred foods as well as my original a hundred days meal plan. I've been refining this program for the last seven years. Just today, a mom wrote to me and told me that the a hundred days meal plan has been a quote game changer for her busy lifestyle. When you join the program, you also get access to over a hundred phase two combination food recipes. So you're gonna try out the trickier textures, push your baby's palate. And what's cool about these recipes is your whole family will enjoy them. So everything you need to give your baby a safe start to solid foods is inside of the program.

Katie Ferraro (27m 57s):

It's created by me, a registered dietitian who specializes in infant feeding. If you're tired of hunting and pecking around the internet trying to piece this stuff together on your own, I put it all in one convenient place for you. I invite you to check out the Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program that's at babyledweaning.co. Again, that website is babyledweaning.co and click on program to learn more.