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

Going to start weaning my boy next week, he is exclusively breast fed atm and will be 5.5 months. Do I start with purées till 6 months? He is really interested in food and reaching for things now so I think we are ready to start x

My son is about to turn 1 he has what I think is a cold, he’s got a runny nose and a dry cough. Today he’s decided he wants to eat less food but he still having his milk. If we try and show him food he throws a hissy fit screaming crying the works so we’re trying not to push the issue, Is this normal? He’s still p...

I am at my absolute wits end! My little girl used to LOVE her food, literally loved all foods. She now is so fussy, all shel eat really is Blueberries, banana, yoghurt, crispies.... that's literally it. I make different foods, I make everything and anything and she just does not want it!!! Is anyone else going throu...

How many bottles and meals/snacks is your 10 month old having? I’m worried my lg isn’t eating enough or drinking enough. Also need some snack,dinner ideas

If my 15 month old is playing or chilling and I enter the room she will just feed. It's at the point that if we are in the same room she wants to feed, is this normal?

What are we making our TODDLERS (😩😔) for breakfast? 👀 need ideas.

If you give your kid cereal, which ones do you offer or they like to eat? My son absolutely hates weetabix and porridge and has eggs every morning without fail

My daughter is starting to dislike food she loved which is starting to make breakfast impossible. Weetabix, porridge, toast, scrambled eggs, avocado she just gags and spits it out. I try her again and she does the same thing. I’m unsure why as she could eat a whole avocado in one sitting not long ago and was obsesse...

Hi, I’m just wondering I’m giving my son bread for the first time today everyone says to toast it, my question is do I need to add butter to it

Hi everyone, my little girl is now 15 months and refuses to feed herself. She has been difficult with food ever since she was 9 months and became ill for a long period of time and was refusing anything that wasn't puree. Now she has been earing better but is refusing to feed herself. She picks up food and eats it bu...

My nearly 13 month old daughter has started screaming the house down after every meal because she hates that her food is finished. Does anyone else's baby do this? I know that she's not still hungry but it's very annoying and I don't know how to make her stop it

My 3 year old little girl does not listen to me at all! Mornings are even worse especially her having breakfast. She will find anything else to do apart from eat her food and then my mam comes in and accuses me of not feeding her! My 3 year old loves strawberry jam on toast she asks for it every morning so I make it...

Pulling my hair out trying to think of ideas for what to give my baby lunch, that he can eat. I give him - cous cous, fritters (beans&cheese, vegetable) scrambled egg, toast (can’t really eat it though), pasta. Any ideas would be much appreciated 🤞🏼

My kid has been picky eater since 9months old. Early intervention didn't seem bothered cuz she has a list of food she may or not not eat consistently that is long ish (it's mostly fruits yall). So idk when taxes come I was thinking of getting the guide and solve this myself hopefully. But it's 150 bucks. So I'm ask...

I don't know what to do. Everything I try to offer my son he doesn't want. What can I do?

I’m having such a hard time getting this girl to eat more than a few bites🤦🏾‍♀️ I call her the boobie bandit because all she wants is boob sometimes on a good day I can get a couple bites in her but for the most part she just plays in her food and throw it and she won’t allow me to feed her she closes her mouth and…

No child should receive a plate before the man of the house.

I was feeding my boy a banana earlier and he was happy, then the MIL pulls out chocolate eclairs and straight away rips a bit off and reaches over to give it to him! She always does this! The other day she bought (sugar coated, jam filled) doughnuts ((yes I’m an unhealthy eating but trying to keep my child healthy...

Hello! FTM here and baby is 6.5 months old. I started weaning a couple of weeks before baby turned 6 months, and he hated it. He gagged and spat up the food. I started with cucumber, carrot and sweet potato which I had boiled and mashed with a fork. I gave baby a day in between and the last week or so, I’ve been giv...

Hi, FTM here. My baby girl is 1 month old, she weights around 4.8kg and usually drinks 120ml of milk (or formula) but I'm really struggling to get her to feed today... In the past 5 hours she's had 60ml in 2 sessions and keeps falling asleep while feeding. I don't know what to do! She's definitely not sick or const...