The cost of baby-led vs. parent-led approaches to introducing complementary foods in New Zealand

The cost of baby-led vs. parent-led approaches to introducing complementary foods in New Zealand

Baby-led approaches to complementary feeding promote intake of family foods rather than infant specific foods, from the start of the complementary feeding period, which advocates suggest should be less expensive. However, this has never been formally examined. We recently completed a 2-year randomised controlled trial comparing baby-led (BLISS) and traditional spoon-feeding (Control) approaches to complementary feeding in 206 infants.