Baby-led Weaning - Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett

Rather militant exposition of the self-feeding approach to weaning, emphasising the importance of allowing the baby to be in control of the process by using finger foods and tolerating mess, and including babies in family mealtimes eating the same food as everyone else. Helpful in places, with some good lists of suitable finger foods and useful information on nutrition etc. and worth it if only for the photos of babies tucking into the most unlikely foods, but a bit extreme in the way it portrays spoon-feeding as tantamount to cruelty, and arguably not the most efficient way to increase the calorie intake of a baby that is starting to lose weight & sleep less well...