Baby led weaning.
In the picture of the day thread I wanted to refer to baby-led weaning , but I couldn't find anything about it in Spanish. Is there a Spanish translation for this?
3 Answers
"Baby-led weaning" is categorically not a US or English invention. It is the way traditional peoples have raised their kids in many cultures for eons.
It simply means that the kid is weaned when he or she is ready to stop drinking breast milk, not when the mother decides she's had enough.
An apt translation would be something like: "Destete determinado por el bebé", or "Destete a voluntad del bebé".
Baby led weaning is quite a new thing, which is probably why I can't find anything about it in Spanish. It is basically what I did with my children, because I was too lazy to purée food. Instead of feeding baby with mush you let them take part in family meals and try what ever they show an interest in. They handle food, experience a variety of textures and gradually eat more and more of it. It doesn't matter if all they do is play with the food because they still get all they really need from their milk.
As soon as I saw the photo in the thread today I thought of it but couldn't incorporate it into a Spanish sentence. Mind you I may not have been able to even if I had found a translation but that is another story.
The phrase "baby-led weaning" makes no sense in English. A bit more explanation might help.
