Weaning is an exciting time but what foods should you avoid feeding your baby in their first few months of solids? Having lived on sterile liquid for the first few months of life and with more fragile digestive systems than adults babies need to have a more carefully planned diet than older children or adults.

After the first year babies can eat almost any food but until then try to avoid the below;

Eggs can be introduced from 7 months as long as fully cooked through. Keep a cautious eye on homemade …

When baby first starts to feed themself on finger food or with a spoon there may be an occasion where they choke or seem to choke. Here are some ways to minimise the risk of that happening.
To reduce the risk of choking for first time finger foodies try to keep to these tips:

Don’t force baby to eat if he or she is crying or getting distressed
Make sure that food is soft enough for baby and add small chunks or different textures gradually
Avoid small hard things like raisins, hard sweets, nuts, …

If your baby is choking and has not coughed up the food themself you may need to commence CPR.
To do CPR on a baby remember to use not quite as much force as you do with an adult. All new parents should read up on basic child first aid and should keep a book handy.
If your child is choking:

Give your baby a couple of medium hard pats on the back. See if you can easily disodge the food with your finger but do not try too much as you may …

Many babies will seem to to choke when first starting to eat solids. This is usually just a gag reflex at a new taste or, if some food has got stuck, they will often manage to dislodge it themself by gagging. In some cases you will need to help them out with a firm pat on the back or in rare cases CPR.
You can usually tell straight away if your baby is choking:
 

They will go quiet or make a strangled noise.
They will often have their mouth open and tongue out …

Baby Led Weaning is weaning baby onto solids by letting them lead the way on what they eat.
This approach moves away from using spoons and feeding baby progressively chunkier purees and instead is based upon using finger foods and letting baby feed themselves. This is often an approach which many parents fall into without knowing that they are actually using the Baby Led Weaning method.
Finger foods are best started at around seven to nine months. Around this time babies will have begun to learn how to swallow without gagging or …

Learning how to breastfeed can seem like the biggest challenge you have ever had to face. Weaning baby off the breast, however, can be even more challenging. This can be even more difficult if your baby tends to breastfeed not only for food but also in place of a teddy, security blanket or pacifier/ dummy.
There are no set ways to stop breastfeeding but here are some things to try and keep in mind;

Gradually drop daytime feeds or extend the time between feeds to break the breastfeeding routine for baby and …