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This guide will go into detail on which equipment, tools, and feeding essentials you will need to feed your baby successfully.

 

BABY FEEDING ESSENTIALS

From high chairs to spoons – this is a shortlist of the essentials you need to feed your baby.

  1. High Chair: You will need a high chair to help keep your baby from moving around while eating. It’s also there to give baby the support they need to have proper form while they eat.
  2. Suction Bowl or Baby Bowl: A small bowl with high sides is perfect for serving your homemade purees to your baby. We like suction bowls as they tend to stay on the table or high chair once baby starts to self-feed.
  3. Baby Spoon: You are going to need several spoons for your baby. There are spoons made for baby purees as well as spoons that are made for baby-led weaning that help teach your baby to self-feed.
  4. Open Lid Cup: To help your baby transition from breast or bottle to a cup, you will need a sippy cup or open lid cup.
  5. Bib with Catch Pocket: Great for keeping those cute baby clothes clean. A catch pocket is great for when they start to eat finger foods.
  6. Sleeved Bib: If you are doing baby-led weaning or a combo of purees and BLW, then we recommend this sleeved bib to keep your baby clean when things get messy.. and they will get messy.
  7. Splat Mat to Cover the Floor: A ‘fun’ phase most babies go through is dropping things on the floor – cups, spoons, plates, foods, etc. This splat mat just helps keep your floors from getting as messy.
  8. Baby wipes: To wipe down baby, the table, your floor, your face and hair, you name it – baby wipes are up for the job.

 

TOP TOOLS FOR BABY-LED WEANING

While baby-led weaning is all about serving your baby the foods you are eating, you will need a few helpful items to really master feeding your baby with this style.

  1. Baking Sheet: Most likely, you already have these in your kitchen, but you will use them to roast and bake fruits and vegetables before you serve them to your baby.
  2. Saucepans: Another item you will most likely have in your kitchen. You will use this to cook harder produce so it’s soft enough for your baby to eat.
  3. Steamer Insert with Lid: I love my steamer insert and use it all the time. For baby, you will be using it to steam the fruit and veggies to make them soft enough to blend. You can also use these Two-Pack Vegetable Steamer Baskets instead of an insert. I do think the insert holds more produce than the baskets do.
  4. Sectioned Plate: We love this sectioned plate because it has walls that help your baby be able to push food against it to make it easier for them to pick up the food to eat it.
  5. Easy to Hold Fork and Spoon: The larger bottoms on these spoons and forks make it easier for babies that are using their palmar grasp to hold onto their utensils.
  6. GOOtensils: Another great utensil that I highly recommend. The design of this spoon allows for a thicker puree such as yogurt, applesauce as well as mashed foods to stick to the spoon in the allotted spaces, making it easy for your baby to spoon-feed themselves these sometimes tricker foods.
  7. Wavy Crinkle Cutting Tool: A great tool to have on hand when cutting finger foods like sweet potatoes, carrots, apples, mango, etc, that give these foods a little extra grip.
  8. Grape Cutter: This tool makes it easy to cut grapes so they are less of a choking hazard.
 

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