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The Breastfeeding Show

Starting Solid Foods

  • S2E4
  • 41:42
  • March 21st 2022

What to do if your baby is choking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oswDpwzbAV8

What does gagging look like: https://youtu.be/uRrbZuP-pjk

Start4Life Introducing Solid Foods booklet [pdf]: https://www.unicef.org.uk/babyfriendly/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2008/02/Start4Life-Introducing-Solid-Foods-2015.pdf

First Steps Nutrition - Eating well: the first year A guide to introducing solids and eating well up to baby's first birthday [pdf]: https://www.firststepsnutrition.org/s/Eating_well_the_first_year_June_20_for_web.pdf

NCT Introducing Solids Workshop: https://www.nct.org.uk/courses-workshops/nct-introducing-solid-foods-workshop

NCT Baby First Aid Course: https://www.nct.org.uk/local-activities-meet-ups/baby-first-aid

Gill Rapley Baby Led Weaning website: http://www.rapleyweaning.com/

Book: Why Starting Solids Matters, by Amy Brown: https://www.pinterandmartin.com/why-starting-solids-matters

Book: Complementary Feeding: Nutrition, Culture and Politics, by Gabrielle Palmer: https://www.pinterandmartin.com/complementary-feeding

The Breastfeeding Show

The Breastfeeding Show is made by Frances Attenborough, Karen Hall and Megan Stephenson, who are all NCT-trained Breastfeeding Counsellors, with at least ten years’ each of experience helping parents both through antenatal sessions, and group and 1:1 postnatal support. This show is for anyone with an interest in feeding babies, whether they’re exclusively breastfeeding, chestfeeding, mixed feeding, expressing, still waiting for their baby to arrive, or thinking about stopping.


In our first series, we cover the basics of how to get started, establishing a milk supply, positioning and attachment, expressing, common challenges, and we bust a few myths. We hope our informal style keeps things interesting and useful, as we chat about our absolute favourite subject.