Trial reportNutrients2018
Impact of a Modified Version of Baby-Led Weaning on Dietary Variety and Food Preferences in Infants.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.
- Education of family members to support weaning to solids and nutrition in later infancy in term-born infants.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
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- How Do Infants Eat at Home? A Preliminary Study of Complementary Feeding Skills in the Naturalistic Environment.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2026Observational
- Association between feeding practices and infants' nutritional intake: a 6-month prospective cohort study.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- Diversity of Plant-Based Food Consumption: A Systematic Scoping Review on Measurement Tools and Associated Health Outcomes.Nutrition reviews · 2025Article
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- Essential elements for learning to eat: guidance to support families with infants and young children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Review
- Timing of food pieces introduction and neurodevelopment: findings from a nationwide birth cohort.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Motilin, a Novel Orexigenic Factor, Involved in Feeding Regulation in Yangtze Sturgeon (Biomolecules · 2024Article
- Professional Feeding Guidance Improved Infants' Self-Feeding Proportion during Complementary Foods Introduction in Beijing, China: An Exploratory Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Traditional complementary feeding or BLW (Baby Led Weaning) method? - A cross-sectional study of Polish infants during complementary feeding.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Practical Implementation of the BLW Method During the Expansion of the Infant Diet-A Study Among Polish Children.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- An infant-led approach to complementary feeding is positively associated with language development.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
- Complementary Feeding Methods-A Review of the Benefits and Risks.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Complementary Feeding: Pitfalls for Health Outcomes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- The Use of Added Salt and Sugar in the Diet of Polish and Austrian Toddlers. Associated Factors and Dietary Patterns, Feeding and Maternal Practices.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- StandardPublic health nutrition · 2019Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine whether food variety and perceived food preferences differ in infants following baby-led instead of traditional spoon-feeding approaches to introducing solids. A total of 206 women (41.3% primiparous) were recruited in late pregnancy from a single maternity hospital (response rate 23.4%) and randomized to Control (n = 101) or BLISS (n = 105) groups. All participants received government-funded Well Child care. BLISS participants also received support to exclusively breastfeed to 6 months and three educational sessions on BLISS (Baby-Led Weaning, modified to reduce the risk of iron deficiency, growth faltering, and choking) at 5.5, 7, and 9 months. Food variety was calculated from three-day weighed diet records at 7, 12, and 24 months. Questionnaires assessed infant preference for different tastes and textures at 12 months, and for 'vegetables', 'fruit', 'meat and fish', or 'desserts' at 24 months. At 24 months, 50.5% of participants provided diet record data, and 78.2% provided food preference data. BLISS participants had greater variety in 'core' (difference in counts over three days, 95% CI: 1.3, 0.4 to 2.2), 'non-core' (0.6, 0.2 to 0.9), and 'meat and other protein' (1.3, 0.8 to 1.9) foods at 7 months, and in 'fruit and vegetable' foods at 24 months (2, 0.4 to 3.6). The only differences in perceived food preferences observed were very small (i.e., <5% difference in score, at 12 months only). Infants following the modified Baby-Led Weaning were exposed to more varied and textured foods from an early age, but only an increased variety in 'fruit and vegetable' intake was apparent by two years of age.
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