Try playing ‘feed me’, chop up some finger foods and encourage your toddler to put the food in your mouth. Chew each bite enthusiastically, then feed your little one in the same way.

Kapadia went back to spoon-feeding seera while singing nursery rhymes. “I would rather get done with the meal in ten minutes and get back to my work or my elder one’s studies,” she says.

A growing number of parents are skipping spoon-feeding their babies and trying “baby-led weaning” instead. By Katie J. M. Baker Jenny Best was determined that her firstborn son would have a ...