Community Posts, Tips & Support on Children's Health & Nutrition

How are you coordinating meals and bedtime after nursery pick up? I'm finding it hard to fit everything in unless I pick baby up at 5 sharp and that's not possible if I have a lot of work on!

I find it so stressful!! And I try to prepare as much as I can beforehand when he's playing or napping, but still, even if I'm only actually cooking for 15 minutes max he's still glued to my hip, screaming as if he's starved!

Any ideas on how to get my toddler to eat vegetables? She is 3 and refuses everything. Desperate for help

Hey ladies, my partner and I plan playdates with another couple and their toddler. We get along well with them, we're from different cultures so there are some differences but it's all acceptable and understood. The playdates are usually outdoors. So since the beginning something I've noticed is that they hardly pac...

Hii im wondering if anyone can give me abit of a run down of bottles and food times and amounts for your 8-9 month olds? Im trying to find a routine that suits my little man as he’s a sicky boy any help would be brilliant TIA 🩵 Photo of my little chunky monkey so we don’t get missed 🥹🩵

It seems that everyone except my husband is pressuring me to start my daughter on solids. I keep telling everyone that she’s not ready for solids. I give her little bites of our food throughout the day but to sit down and have a meal it’s not happening. She literally gags/chokes on solids then pukes. I’ve tried tea...

Hello girlies! I am 5 weeks pregnant and it's all so overwhelming! 😅 I feel like anything I do is a danger to the baby, there's so many lifestyle changes you have to make, it feels like too much sometimes. I've been told I can't eat leftovers, but I have a full time job, I can't cook every single day!And it's…

Hey, my little girl will be 9 months soon. I have found the weaning journey really difficult! I have now found that she prefers pouches and will scoff those, but when it comes to home cooked she doesn’t eat half as much. I have also really tried with some finger foods: toast, omelettes, pancakes and pin wheels but s...

Hi, has anyone yet introduced 3 meals a day?? At the moment, my baby has breakfast at 9am and dinner at around 4:30/5pm. She’s 7 months tomorrow, and still wakes up twice during the night. I’ve given her some ‘lunch’ today wanting to see if it will make a difference to her night feeds! She’s formula fed and sti...

Since starting solids at 6m, our LO has gone right off his milk. He was combi fed, majority BF with one bottle in the morning and one at night as advised by HV and GP. As soon as he was even having tiny tastes, he dropped his morning bottle, and the more he ate, the less milk he would take. Even offering milk befor...

I’ve just started weaning but my baby is not interested when I try to feed him myself, he likes to grab/hold & feed himself. What foods did people start with for baby led weaning?

Kinda struggling if I’m honest as my first baby wasn’t like this. Introducing solids and textures was so much fun. Now it’s stressful and I feel like my efforts making purées and meals are wasted. My baby likes yogurt and very smooth purées occasionally I would say 70% of the time declines. Is there any advice? I l...

My LG is not 3 months and she’s being having pretty bad reflux the gp cause giving her gaviscon which isn’t helping and there’s not they’re doing so I’ve taken matter in my own hands and fed her baby rice cereal this morning and she ate and loved it! Has anyone done it this early? Feeling extremely guilty but she ...

Baby is nearly 11 months old and has been on Neocate since 3 months old. We got advised by the dietitian at the hospital to try the milk ladder when he turns 1 due to other allergies/intolerances. What’s the best milk alternative to give him when he does turn 1? We use Oatly Braista Oat for cereal /in food at the ...

Thinking of starting solids early at about 4-5 months old? Has anyone done it? How did it go?

Any ideas or recommendations on a poor 1 year old, who’s refusing food, water, dummy, has a loose bum, croaky voice, only taking formula/ cows milk.

Starting to feel really helpless with the fact my daughter will only ever eat a few certain things. I try and mix up her food as much as I can for her to try new things - and all she wants is the things with not much nutrition 😭 (crisps, snacks etc) she will hardly eat vegetables and is fussy with fruit. Today I…

I'm struggling to feed my baby thicker purees she's still on 6 months purees every time I feed her it she gags and spits it out she's 9 months old now and I'm worried she'll never get use to it I try feeding her fruit she's good with some fruits but still ends up choking on it sometimes where we actually have to phy...

My 13 month old is stil not feeding himself using a spoon or fork yet. I encourage this daily and a few times he showed interest. But now just throws the spoon. He can eat finger food himself Should I be concerned? I feel like every other baby is feeding themselves by this stage

Is anyone on this yet? My daughter is still on 3 bottles of milk (formula) haven’t started her onto 🐮 milk yet because she’s been constantly sick from starting nursery 🙄 but I am DREADING IT. Convinced my child is the world’s messiest eater, I have all the fancy bibs, somehow she still gets covered, rubs it in her…