Avocado Day: How to Safely Feed Avocados for Baby-Led Weaning

Avocados are the ideal first food for baby-led weaning. That’s because when ripe they are the perfect texture for starting solid foods, you can cut them into strips that babies can pick up and self-feed and avocados are packed with nutrition. In this episode we’re celebrating National Avocado Day with a rundown of how to safely feed babies avocados for baby-led weaning.  Listen to this episode to learn: How to expedite ripening of your avocados How to safely cut an avocado so you don’t slice your hand How to serve the avocado to your baby whether you’re doing a pre-loaded puree approach or diving into solid strips of avocado for baby-led weaning How to preserve the leftover avocado to feed again in the future and prevent browning Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/bonus8 Links from This Episode: Article: California Avocados as a Perfect First Baby Food by Katie Ferraro Video: How to Prepare Avocados for BLW by Katie Ferraro  Additional avocado content by Katie Ferraro for the California Avocado Commission  Baby-Led Weaning with Katie Ferraro program with the 100 First Foods™ Daily Meal Plan, join here: https://babyledweaning.co/program   Baby-Led Weaning for Beginners free online workshop with 100 First Foods™ list to all attendees, register here: https://babyledweaning.co/baby-led-weaning-for-beginners Other Episodes Related to This Topic: Episode 142 Debunking the Biggest BLW Myths with Gill Rapley, PhD Episode 5 How to Do “Purees for a Few Days” When Starting Solid Foods Episode 145 BLW Basics: My Baby Isn't Eating Very Much...What's Wrong? Episode 16 10 Easy Starter Foods for Baby-Led Weaning 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 Not sure about which foods to offer your baby next? Get your copy of my original 100 FIRST FOODS list on my free online video workshop called BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Want guided help on how to make all of the 100 FIRST FOODS™ safely for your baby? My program BABY-LED WEANING WITH KATIE FERRARO has a 100 FIRST FOODS daily meal plan and everything else you need to start solid foods safely with baby-led weaning. CLICK HERE TO JOIN. 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 Be sure to follow @babyledweanteam on Instagram and our Baby-Led Weaning YouTube channel for more information about helping your baby transition to solid foods safely. 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 If you learned something from this episode and like this podcast, your review means the WORLD to us and helps other parents find this important evidence-based infant feeding info. Click here to leave a review on Apple podcasts or rate this show on Spotify podcasts and thanks for being a part of this amazing and supportive baby-led weaning community! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices