Parents are offered guidance on when, what and how to wean.
However, advice on the introduction of complimentary foods has
changed over the past decade and there has been some confusion
especially when advice is not consistent across varied sources (see
Schwartz, Scholtens et al., 2011) and/or when maternal experience
conflicts with Government guidelines (see Caton et al., 2011).
Parents continue to shape children’s food habits beyond the first
year of life (Blissett, 2011) but explicit guidance to parents about
feeding their child beyond this period tends to be more limited
compared with guidance about weaning.