Skip the spoon-fed puree and let babies go straight to finger foods, a new study suggests. Babies who learn to feed themselves early on may develop healthier eating habits and be less likely to become overweight.
Researchers call it “baby-led weaning” — letting infants wean themselves from breast milk or formula by self-feeding bits of cut-up table foods, rather than being spoon-fed by the parent.
The study, published this week in BMJ Open, included 155 children aged 20 months to 6 1/2 years. Parents filled out questionnaires about their feeding and weaning practices, the children’s food preferences and their height and weight.
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