Katie Ferraro, MPH, RD, CDE

Hi, I'm Katie Ferraro I'm a Registered Dietitian and mom of 7 specializing in Baby-Led Weaning. I run the largest digital community dedicated to baby-led weaning and I host the BABY-LED WEANING MADE EASY podcast, a top 15 podcast in Apple's Parenting podcast category. In 2016 I created the 100 FIRST FOODS approach to starting solid foods with baby-led weaning. Through my workshops, courses and digital content I've helped tens of thousands of families give their babies a safe start to solid foods using the alternative to traditional spoon-feeding technique known as baby-led weaning. Teaching families, daycare providers and healthcare practitioners how to do baby-led weaning SAFELY is my passion. I am an Associate Clinical Professor of Nutrition at the University of California San Francisco Graduate School of Nursing, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Nutrition at the University of San Diego Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science and a Lecturer in the Exercise and Nutrition Science department at San Diego State University where I specialize in online nutrition curriculum development. While my day job is being a dietitian specializing in infant feeding...my REAL job is at home, where my husband and I are parents to 7 kids age 5 and under: a singleton Molly, our 4-year old quadruplets Charlie, Claire, Henry and Dillon and 2-year old twins Gus and Hannah. I document the insanity of our home life on my instagram account @fourtifiedfam and my baby-led weaning work can be found on instagram @babyledweanteam.