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Yes, your baby CAN learn to self-feed using a spoon! You might have heard that baby-led weaning means NOT using purees or a spoon...but that’s not the whole story. Purees are an important texture for babies to master - they’re just not the ONLY texture babies can eat!

In this episode, I’m joined by BLW expert Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP. Dawn specializes in pediatric swallowing and she’s the feeding expert for ezpz. Dawn also designed the ezpz Tiny Spoon - the award winning baby-led weaning spoon that is REMARKABLY different than any baby spoon you’ve ever seen before!

You can honor the self-feeding principles of baby-led weaning AND teach your baby to self-feed by spoon using Ms. Dawn’s proven pre-loaded spoon technique. She’s walking us through it step-by-step in this episode all about promoting self-feeding with a spoon!

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In this episode, Dawn Winkelmann, MS, CCC-SLP is joining me to talk about how to promote self-feeding by spoon, including:

• The exact steps you can take during the first few days of baby-led weaning to help promote your baby’s ability to independently feed from his or her first bites!

• Why most of the baby spoons on the market are designed for PARENTS to feed babies and why she developed the TINY SPOON that let’s BABIES be in charge of self-feeding!

• How your baby learns to dip and then scoop and then eat independently - Dawn’s walking us through the various spoon-related feeding milestones in infant feeding.

LINKS from episode

• Check out Dawn’s website with all of her feeding resources at www.msdawnslp.com 

• Try out Dawn’s baby-led weaning spoon the ezpz Tiny Spoon and get 10% off using code KATIE10.

• Join Katie & Dawn’s 100 FIRST FOODS FIELD GUIDE digital program - enrollment is only open for a limited time a few times each year.

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• Join Katie & Dawn’s 100 FIRST FOODS FIELD GUIDE digital program - enrollment is only open for a limited time a few times each year.

• SIGN UP for Katie’s free online workshop “BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS: How to get your baby to try 100 foods before turning 1 without you having to spoon-feed purees or buy pouches” - everyone on the free workshop gets a copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS LIST so you can focus on all of the foods your baby CAN eat!