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 …

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 …

Some babies suffer from milk intolerance. This is an intolerance to either the protein part of the milk or more commonly the lactose (lactose intolerance).
Some babies are allergic to cow’s milk. This means that they cannot have any milk or products containing milk. The more common problem is for babies to be intolerant of milk. If merely intolerant, rather than allergic, then baby may still be able to have some cow’s milk. Your doctor can diagnose whether your baby is allergic or lactose intolerant.
Symptoms of Lactose Intolerance
The possible symptoms to …

Once a baby starts to eat solids he or she needs a well balanced diet to help them grow healthily. As a lot of the nutrients and vitamins a baby needs are found most easily in meat and animal products they can be found in other sources of food. The parents of a vegan baby should be aware of their baby’s nutritional needs and seek to replace the missing nutrients with vegan food.
The nutrients and vitamins usually provided by animal products, meat and fish are;
Iron; A baby’s natural store of iron has begun …

To some women breastfeeding comes naturally. To the majority of women there is a steep learning curve and a lot of pain but the below tips can help to make it a more pleasurable and easy experience.

Get Advice: Ask friends relatives, your midwife, health visitor or doctor. Your health visitor and midwife are experts at breastfeeding and have witnessed first hand the problems and successes of other mothers. They can also advise you of local breastfeeding counsellors and groups.

If you have any stomach pains similar to period pains (or even …