Starting solid foods: does the feeding method matter?

Rapley, Gill

doi:10.1080/03004430.2016.1250080

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“…Whatever the reason for this apparent need of infants to explore food, being prevented from doing so has been shown to lead to behaviour that is commonly described as food refusal (Rapley ). Thus, it is possible that the type of exposure to food – that is, how many of the infant's senses are stimulated and how active his involvement is – may itself determine his response.…”

Section: Food Format Feeding Methods and The Nature Of Exposurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Cichero ) but this argument overlooks the fact that not all cultures use either spoons or ‘transitional’ foods (Stevenson & Allaire ). Delaney () and Rapley () both found evidence that, far from being an aid to learning to chew, purees are not necessarily easy for infants aged over 6 months to manage – whose default approach seems to be to munch rather than suck. The SACN report advises that ‘Whilst suckling and sucking are innate, munching and chewing appear to be learned as a result of exposure to different textured foods introduced once the infant is developmentally ready’ (SACN , para 3.2, p. 17).…”

Section: The Wider Significance Of Food Format and Feeding Methods Formentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Infants’ responses to food have recently been shown to vary according to whether they are feeding themselves with graspable food or being spoon‐fed a pureed version of the same food by a parent: Rapley () found that looking, touching and licking of food were more common during self‐feeding, whereas avoidant behaviours, such as pushing the food away, occurred more often during spoon feeding. This indicates that infants experience these two scenarios very differently, suggesting that the format of the food ( i.e .…”

Section: Food Format Feeding Methods and The Nature Of Exposurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…When infants of 6 months are given the chance to feed themselves they typically pick up the food, look at it, squeeze it, test it with their lips, lick it and may even sniff itall before they take a bite (Rapley 2016). This may be simple curiosity but it is a crucial part of how infants learn about the world around them (Palmer 1989;Wilcox et al 2007;Stein 2012).…”

Section: Nature Of Exposure To Foodmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Baby‐led weaning: Where are we now?

Rapley

2018

Nutrition Bulletin

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When baby‐led weaning (BLW) first emerged as a concept, in the early 2000s, it was seen as a new and different approach to complementary feeding, a challenge to the accepted way of doing things – which indeed it was. Since then, there has been a gradual reassessment of the perceived wisdom that guides how complementary feeding is approached, with the result that many of the features of BLW are now reflected in mainstream thinking. The publication of the report of the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, Feeding in the First Year of Life, which summarises and evaluates the existing evidence base for infant feeding as a benchmark for UK guidelines, provides a useful opportunity to look at how well the baby‐led approach fits with current evidence and which aspects of the introduction of solid foods remain to be investigated.

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Section: Food Format Feeding Methods and The Nature Of Exposurementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Wider Significance Of Food Format and Feeding Methods Formentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Food Format Feeding Methods and The Nature Of Exposurementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Nature Of Exposure To Foodmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Baby‐led weaning: Where are we now?

Rapley

2018

Nutrition Bulletin

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“…Furthermore, the six month timeframe remains debated and is argued as excessive in the context of developed countries (Kramer and Kakuma 2012;Reilly and Wells 2005;Fewtrell et al 2011). On the related subject of complementary feeding, WHO (2003) guidelines on feeding behaviours, form and food quantities, are now challenged by research on baby-led weaning, which advocates that babies play a greater role in regulating food intake; that they self-feed family foods from the outset and that they be offered solid foods rather than purees (Rapley 2016;Wright et al 2011;Townsend and Pitchford 2012). Similarly, nutrition science on micronutrient supplementation remains contested.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maternal and child nutrition in rural Chhattisgarh: the role of health beliefs and practices

Chanchani

2017

Anthropology & Medicine

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From research in central Chhattisgarh, this paper interprets the bearing that healthcare beliefs and practices may have in shaping maternal and child nutrition both in the light of biomedical recommendations and within the context and constraints of a rural village setting. It contends that health beliefs and practices that are at variance from biomedical recommendations appear to have few consequences for gestational nutrition and for child health in relation to pregnancy. In the postpartum however, health ideas at variance from biomedical recommendations appear to have an important bearing on maternal nutrition and infant feeding, and may put mothers and children at risk of nutritional deficiency. Maternal 'eating down' following a surgical procedure such as a caesarean delivery or tubectomy is especially noteworthy, since food intake quantity is reduced over an extended time frame. While caring practices are influenced by cultural formulations, they also reflect, perhaps, adaptations to health risks.

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