Glossary

Baby-led weaning:	Allowing a baby to self-feed and determine the quantities he eats, by including him in family mealtimes and making the family’s usual variety of healthy foods available to eat, keeping known choking risks or food deemed unsuitable out of reach.
Exclusive breastfeeding:	Feeding a baby no water or other liquids other than breastmilk and no solids, including cereals or purée.
Let down:	Also known as the milk ejection reflex (MER). This is when the breast milk begins to flow in response to the baby’s sucking. Some mothers feel tingling in the nipple or even in their shoulders and others never feel it happening.
Meconium:	The dark green mucoid material that forms the first faeces of a newborn infant.
Posseting:	The regurgitation of a small amount of milk, usually with some wind, by a baby after feeding.
Self-wean:	When a child stops breastfeeding of their own accord (weaning at nature’s pace).