Parents in Eating Disorder Recovery: What to Know Before You Feed Your Baby with Grace Wong, MS, RD

#46: Eating Disorder dietitian Grace Wong is joining me in this episode to talk about helping parents in eating disorder recovery succeed in starting solid foods using baby-led weaning. Grace has worked with both pediatric and adult eating disorder patients, as well as children with feeding disorders. She explains the difference between eating disorders and feeding disorders and shares tips on how parents in eating disorder recovery can help their baby gain trust when starting solid foods. Listen to this episode to learn: Why looking closely at mom’s mental health and wellbeing is important when baby turns 6 months old (...and not just focusing on the baby’s needs, which we all have a tendency to do!) How the 6 month mark when babies start solid foods can be a particularly vulnerable time for mom, especially if she has a history of eating disorder or disordered eating What to do to help parents and babies learn to TRUST their ability to self-feed, even if mom is struggling with her own relationship to food. Shownotes for this episode can be found here: https://www.babyledweaning.co/podcast/46 Links from this episode: Grace Wong’s Facebook Group 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: If you’re interested in mom’s mental health as it pertains to infant feeding, check out episode 32: Post-Partum Depression: How a BLW Plan Helped this Mom with Carissa Rose. 🌱 🌱🌱🌱 🌱 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