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What snacks are you giving your 2 year olds?

My toddler has always been happy with fruit pouches, yogurts, smoothie melts, but is suddenly refusing them and I’ve realised I need to step away from the baby snacks! What do you all offer as snacks? My LG is very fussy with fruit and veg, crisps, sandwiches. She’s having fruit smoothies instead but I’m stumped abo...

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Self-feeding at 16 months…

Hi ladies, Just wondering how many people still spoon feed ‘proper meals’ like curry, chilli etc? My 16 month old can use a spoon and will spoon himself yoghurt and eat finger foods but the only way we can get a substantial meal is by spoon feeding him. I panic about him not eating much if we just leave him to it.

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Toddler breakfast ideas? No egg

What is everyone feeling their toddlers? She’s allergic to eggs and does not like pancakes so I’m always at a loss!

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Couscous idea

my baby turned six months old on Sunday.. I wanted to give her some couscous.. recipes??TIA

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Safe meal

What’s everyone’s little ones safe Meal that you no they will eat? Just looking for a bit of inspo my little boy is ok at eating at the moment but has gone through the fussy stage varioussss of times!! My little one is pepperoni pasta with cheese cucumber and houmous and fruit

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Refuses fruit and veggies

I can’t get my baby to eat any fruit or veggies. He will be one. He will stare at it not touch it. If he touches it it’s to fling it on the floor. He won’t even attempt to try it. He will pick up any protein or carb but not touch a fruit or veggies to even kno if they are gross. I started giving him those fruit an...

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How long do you give your little one to eat?

Some days my little girl eats really well and we can be finished a meal in 15 mins or so but other times she seems completely disinterested in eating and just wants to play with her food and make a mess. I feel like my partner gets very impatient/frustrated and wants to end her meal time within a few minutes of her ...

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Baby Rice & porridge help!

I’m going to start my baby on baby rice and porridge but as a first time mum I don’t have a clue what to do! Does anyone have a good routine etc to do it in? Do I feed him first then do bottle after? And how often? And when I wean onto other food how do you do it? I’m so stuck please help!

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meals

hello I'm just wondering what do people make for their babies for meals around 6 months mark

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Struggling to eat at nursery

So my little boy started nursery last week. This week has been his first full day week. I’ve been called in today to pick him up because he just wouldn’t eat or drink anything offered to him. When I got there I gave him his water bottle and he drank it straight away.. I’m so torn I go back to work next week. Has any...

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Sick toddler for 4 days; won’t take anything but milk and water

Please help me. My boy has been sick and is not able to take anything. I’ve fed him lemon and ginger tea with a syringe and he takes his warm milk with some chocolate mixed in. He woke up today very weak and barely able to walk. What food/feeding alternatives can I try to help him gain strength and boost his appetite?

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Baby choking because she doesn’t know how to slow down!!!!

Hi everyone! So my baby is 12 months old. Since the start of her weaning journey, pretty much all her food has been really mashed up and we never did BLW. We’ve started to introduce different textures and I aim to move away from mashed up food a bit more because I just feel like I’ll be spoon feeding her or mashi...

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Question

Should I do cupcakes and juice at daycare for my baby 1st birthday Even tho imma do it anyways I am just asking kinda new to this

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Snacks

Mums, please can you share some snack ideas! I get so peckish but don’t know what to eat 😩

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Give me inspo!! 🍝

What did your baby have for dinner tonight?? We had tuna mayo pasta.. I’d say he semi-enjoyed but most ended up on the floor 😂 Need some inspo for for the rest of this week pleaseeeee x

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Starting solids 6 months

For some reason my husband is against purées and giving baby any food in general. He seems to think our baby doesn’t need any of it and can survive off of only breast milk until she’s a year. I don’t understand why he isn’t supportive or purées and letting her try new things. I feel like he’s so against her learning...

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