--- product_id: 48433005 title: "Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food" price: "26154CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/48433005-baby-led-weaning-helping-your-baby-to-love-good-food store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food **Price:** 26154CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food - **How much does it cost?** 26154CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/48433005-baby-led-weaning-helping-your-baby-to-love-good-food) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Buy Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food International Edition by Rapley, Gill, Murkett, Tracey (ISBN: 9780091923808) from desertcart's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Review: The DEFINITIVE AUTHORITATIVE guide to baby-led weaning - Would you buy this again if lost? YES Recommend to a friend? YES QUICK SUMMARY: Baby-led weaning means; 1) Not starting your baby on solids earlier than 6 months. 2) Letting your baby feed himself all of the time. I did NOT follow baby-led weaning but STILL give this book 5 stars! This is because it has taught me more about nutrition and health than any other book or source I know. Not because the book has some secret or complicated information, but because of the way the information is laid out with incredible clearness of explanation. Considering how much I already know about nutrition and health I think this is absolutely amazing. Buy this book if you want to improve your health. Apart from that, I do agree with a review already made above that this book very much oversells the idea of baby-led weaning. Many of it's points are simply inaccurate, and that can be a bit annoying when your reading! Before I had my baby I fancied the idea of starting to wean at 6 months and not earlier, but my son was very forward with his weaning and started himself on solids at 5 months! So I had no choice but to combine both approaches with worked out brilliantly in the end. This book clearly states that pure baby-led weaning is far superior to any other method. Yet from personal experience I know that it is not necessarily the most natural way! Saying that having read this book you will probably have a very good grasp of what baby-led weaning is, advantages, history, and how to go about it if you want to. The authors are todays experts on the subject. Buy it even if your not doing baby-led weaning. Review: Informative and enjoyable for parents starting weaning - I purchased this book because I'm due to start weaning my 2nd child soon, and didn't find weaning my first the 'traditional' way to be a positive experience. I wanted to find out about this alternative approach so that I could decide if it was going to be right for us as so went into it with an open mind. It's a great book, easy to read, with logical chapters ranging from why you shouldn't wean early to 'how to do' baby led weaning. I found there were plenty of ideas of things you could give your child and, unlike other reviewers, I found that there was due consideration given to formula fed babies - although it's clear from reading that if you are formula feeding it's not quite as straightforward as if you are breast feeding, although you can still do it. Ultimately, I decided that BLW on its own probably isn't the best approach for us - but I do think we will try a combination of the 'old style' approach (so I can make sure at least some calories are going in) and just try some finger foods earlier. Current advice is that you only give purees for 2 weeks now anyway and then move on to lumpy food. But I needed to read the book in order to make an informed decision, so if you are a parent with an open mind, who's interested in understanding a bit more of the science behind weaning (whichever way you choose to do it), then you will probably get quite a lot from Gill Rapley's book. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 21,039 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 4 in Feeding your Baby 51 in Cooking for Babies & Children 73 in Pregnancy & Childbirth | | Customer reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (1,464) | | Dimensions | 13.6 x 1.9 x 21.6 cm | | Edition | International Edition | | ISBN-10 | 0091923808 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0091923808 | | Item weight | 258 g | | Language | English | | Print length | 240 pages | | Publication date | 6 Nov. 2008 | | Publisher | Vermilion | ## Images ![Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81Kgrt5o1lL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The DEFINITIVE AUTHORITATIVE guide to baby-led weaning *by G***B on 23 May 2012* Would you buy this again if lost? YES Recommend to a friend? YES QUICK SUMMARY: Baby-led weaning means; 1) Not starting your baby on solids earlier than 6 months. 2) Letting your baby feed himself all of the time. I did NOT follow baby-led weaning but STILL give this book 5 stars! This is because it has taught me more about nutrition and health than any other book or source I know. Not because the book has some secret or complicated information, but because of the way the information is laid out with incredible clearness of explanation. Considering how much I already know about nutrition and health I think this is absolutely amazing. Buy this book if you want to improve your health. Apart from that, I do agree with a review already made above that this book very much oversells the idea of baby-led weaning. Many of it's points are simply inaccurate, and that can be a bit annoying when your reading! Before I had my baby I fancied the idea of starting to wean at 6 months and not earlier, but my son was very forward with his weaning and started himself on solids at 5 months! So I had no choice but to combine both approaches with worked out brilliantly in the end. This book clearly states that pure baby-led weaning is far superior to any other method. Yet from personal experience I know that it is not necessarily the most natural way! Saying that having read this book you will probably have a very good grasp of what baby-led weaning is, advantages, history, and how to go about it if you want to. The authors are todays experts on the subject. Buy it even if your not doing baby-led weaning. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Informative and enjoyable for parents starting weaning *by E***K on 12 November 2009* I purchased this book because I'm due to start weaning my 2nd child soon, and didn't find weaning my first the 'traditional' way to be a positive experience. I wanted to find out about this alternative approach so that I could decide if it was going to be right for us as so went into it with an open mind. It's a great book, easy to read, with logical chapters ranging from why you shouldn't wean early to 'how to do' baby led weaning. I found there were plenty of ideas of things you could give your child and, unlike other reviewers, I found that there was due consideration given to formula fed babies - although it's clear from reading that if you are formula feeding it's not quite as straightforward as if you are breast feeding, although you can still do it. Ultimately, I decided that BLW on its own probably isn't the best approach for us - but I do think we will try a combination of the 'old style' approach (so I can make sure at least some calories are going in) and just try some finger foods earlier. Current advice is that you only give purees for 2 weeks now anyway and then move on to lumpy food. But I needed to read the book in order to make an informed decision, so if you are a parent with an open mind, who's interested in understanding a bit more of the science behind weaning (whichever way you choose to do it), then you will probably get quite a lot from Gill Rapley's book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ My baby loves this! *by T***O on 13 January 2013* This book just made a lot of sense and it is easy to read. I agree with the other readers that there is not much about what to actually feed your baby but once we have applied it to our baby things just fell in place and one sort of get creative, at the end of the day the food must be big enough and in a shape that baby can hold it and as natural as possible (no sugar and salt added) My six month old took to feeding himself like a fish to water. His first meal was well cooked bread dipped in egg and a big slice of mango, it was amazing to see him completely concentrating on the food and chewing (mouth closed!) and he only gagged once or twice, and as the book promised he managed to spit out the big pieces. He is now seven months old and so far had mango, banana, apricot, lightly steamed apple and pear, steamed vegetables like red pepper, carrots, baby patato, sweet patato, asparagus, baby marrow, sugar snap peas, chicken and meat.I also baked him some thick pancakes made with wheatfree flour egg and prunes in fruit juice. He struggles a bit to chew and swallow meat so I made a little "stew" for him of onion steak and sweet patato pureed to try and get some meat in him, he spat the first spoonful that I have placed in his mouth out, but after that he started to feed himself with the spoon (even though half ends up on his face), he also does this with his porridge. As he ate by himself right from the start he is not keen on us feeding him and will literally grab the spoon and put it in his mouth, it is really amazing to see how independant he is. Like everybody says it is a messy business and you really need time as some feeding sessions has taken up to an hour, however the great thing is that he eats until he had enough and you can see by his poo that he is definately getting a good amount of food in... he also like all babies goes through times of liking something and then not. His motor skills are very advanced he started clapping hands at seven months and are able pinch things already. I would definately recommend this book and method of feeding to everybody as it just gets them on proper food rigth from the start! ## Frequently Bought Together - Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby To Love Good Food - Simple & Safe Baby-Led Weaning: How to Integrate Foods, Master Portion Sizes, and Identify Allergies - The Baby-Led Weaning Cookbook: Delicious Recipes That Will Help Your Baby Learn to Eat Solid Foods―and That the Whole Family Will Enjoy (The Authoritative Baby-Led Weaning Series) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/48433005-baby-led-weaning-helping-your-baby-to-love-good-food](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/48433005-baby-led-weaning-helping-your-baby-to-love-good-food) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-09-24*