Baby-led weaning (BLW) / BLISS vs Traditional complementary feeding (TCF): Choking
- Population
- Healthy, term-born, normal-birth-weight infants aged 4-24 months (breastfed and/or formula-fed) in Western industrialized countries
- Intervention
- Baby-led weaning (BLW) / BLISS
- Comparison
- Traditional complementary feeding (TCF)
- Outcome
- Choking
No significant difference in choking risk was found between BLW/BLISS-fed and traditionally fed infants (ungraded).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Baby-led weaning (BLW) / BLISS vs Traditional complementary feeding (TCF) Choking · Healthy, term-born, normal-birth-weight infants aged 4-24 months (breastfed and/or formula-fed) in Western… · Infancy to ~24-36 months, Outpatient care in Western industrialized (European/Anglo-Saxon) countries No significant difference in choking risk was found between BLW/BLISS-fed and traditionally fed infants (ungraded). Complementary Feeding Caregivers' Practices and Growth, Risk of Overweight/Obesity, and Other… (2022) All outcomes | No statistically significant differences in the rate of choking events were observed between TCF-fed infants and BLW/BLISS-fed infants (2 BLW observational studies, 1 BLISS RCT, plus 3 later studies; not pooled). | 6 studies | GRADE not reported |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complementary Feeding Caregivers' Practices and Growth, Risk of Overweight/Obesity, and Other Non-Communicable Diseases: A Systematic… 2022 All outcomes | Updated to September 2021 | 24 | Low / Critically Low |
Related questions
The same intervention and outcome, asked in another population or against another comparator.
- Baby-led weaning (BLW) / BLISS vs Traditional complementary feeding (TCF) · Healthy children aged 6–24 months in Western industrialized countries · 1 review
Studies behind the findings
The primary studies the full-text reviews tie to this outcome. Reviews with headline outcomes only do not list them here.
- Food fussiness and early feeding characteristics of infants following Baby-Led Weaning and traditional spoon-feeding in New Zealand: An… · 2018 · included by 1 of these review
- No difference in self‐reported frequency of choking between infants introduced to solid foods using a baby‐led weaning or traditional… · 2017 · included by 1 of these review
- A Baby-Led Approach to Eating Solids and Risk of Choking · 2016 · included by 1 of these review
- Parent-led or baby-led? Associations between complementary feeding practices and health-related behaviours in a survey of New Zealand… · 2013 · included by 1 of these review
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.