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Baby-led complementary feeding, or letting infants feed themselves all foods once complementary feeding begins, has been proposed to improve calorie intake regulation, reduce food fussiness, and protect against overweight. Observational studies support these claims, but more-rigorous studies are lacking.
In an interventional trial, researchers in New Zealand randomized 206 women in late pregnancy to receive advice on baby-led feeding from a lactation consultant (5 contacts) and a researcher (3 contacts) up to 9 months postpartum, or to standard well-child care alone (control condition). At 12 and 24 months, researchers calculated babies' body-mass index (BMI; primary outcome) and determined secondary outcomes (energy self-regulation, satiety…