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Last Updated: Monday, 18 June 2007, 09:36 GMT 10:36 UK



Pureed baby food is 'unnatural'

Rapley says there is no need to feed babies pureed foods
Spoon-feeding babies pureed food is unnatural and unnecessary, a Unicef childcare expert has warned.
Gill Rapley, deputy director of Unicef's Baby Friendly Initiative said feeding babies in this way could cause health problems later in life.

She said children should be fed only with breast or formula milk for six months, then weaned onto solids to improve control over how much they ate.

This could prevent babies becoming picky about food.

There is no longer any window of a baby's development in which they need something more than milk and less than solids

Gill Rapley

Mrs Rapley has spent 25 years as a health visitor, and she said: "I found so many parents were coming to me with the same problems - 'my child is constipated, my child is really picky' - and they couldn't get them on to second stage baby food."

Milk only

From these observations and her own studies she developed her feeding programme, called Baby-Led Weaning.

According to this programme, during the first six months babies should receive milk only.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6762795.stm

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I don't get this.

So at 6 months, we should feed babies with chunky food and let them choke on it?

At 6 months, there was NO WAY Letty was able to chew. Not a chance. She never chewed in her life before and suddenly I should give her a piece of vegetable to chew on?!

Even after she was eating proper solid food, she still nearly choked on a couple of occasions..

I am sorry, I just don't buy it.