Baby Food Hints/Tips

I have a 2 and half year old child. As a baby he loved eating but now he's too busy playing and gets distracted from eating! I breastfed him until he was one year old but started his solids at four months. As all new mums i was paranoid of how he would react to diffrent types of food or if he would be allergic to any. So initially i used to give him ground rice from boots. I did add a little sugar to give him some taste- somthing my mother advised me to. I turned out to be fine so i don't hesitate listening to my mum for any suggestions. Whether you follow them or not is left tp you! Anyways, back to my son's food habits- after shop's ground rice, i started ...

Weaning can be one of them things which is either very easy or very difficult. Of course like us babies enjoy different tastes and smells, so getting them to try solid food is difficult enough but you have to try and give them things they enjoy and recognise the signs when they don't enjoy something. I was told not to start weaning until quite late, but I decided against this as my boys were very hungry babies and I don't think formula milk satisfied them enough. Whether people agreed with my decision or not I don't know but as mothers (parents in general really) we know what our children need and want and I really don't understand how health visitors advise ...

Weaning my son on to solid food was an experience I found enjoyable, terrifying, frustrating and very funny all at once. There's nothing quite like seeing your little baby laughing away as he covers himself in carrot puree, or the panic as he chokes on a lump which the blender hasn't quite managed to eliminate, the frustration as he refuses to even open his mouth for a meal which you've spent ages preparing or the satisfaction you get when he devours you weren't sure he'd like. First Stage Weaning I started weaning my son at 21 weeks - a bit early on current recommendations but he was a big baby (9lb 6oz at birth), was regularly draining 9oz bottles of ...