BabyCues Bio-logical Weaning Guide Free Chapter - Flipbook - Page 11
in
simple
terms
Bio-logical Weaning is a holistic health approach
that guides parents and health professionals
on how to wean infants off milk, onto solids
from six months to two years, based on
their digestive capabilities, capacities
and nutritional requirements.
BabyCues Bio-logical Weaning is
birthed from hundreds of hours
of research on how the digestive
system of the an infant functions and hands on work with
the longstanding, self-evident
traditional method of offering
pureed food - as I was taught
when I first started working with
infants almost 30 years ago.
Since then, our foods have
dramatically changed, as has
the advice and the extensive
wealth of information available
to parents.
But what has not changed is our
innate digestive biology - the
manual that all humans come
with, and it should ideally, in my
opinion, be the gift that we
respect first and foremost as
we explore the world of food
with our infants. Once we learn
this,
we then have a stable
foundation
to make logical
decisions from, thus confidently
allowing us to focus on a child’s
individual DNA, which may have
us altering feeding decisions as
the child grows.
In my BabyCues Clinic I see
a great deal of infants that
are unsettled. Perhaps they
aren’t sleeping well, or they are
forever on the move with their
limbs, pedalling legs, arching
backwards. They might have a
hard stomach, pass a lot of gas,
be unsettled just before a bowel
motion, or have large weight
gains. When I question the
parents about their child’s diet,
I find the majority of the infants
are struggling to cope with
the amount of food they are
having at each meal, and/or the
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