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

Mamas, I need some serious advice because I feel like I’m losing this food battle! My 13-month-old barely eats, and I don’t know what to do anymore. I make him different meals all the time—mash, veggies, fish fingers—but most of it ends up on the floor (literally just happened as I’m typing this!). For breakfast, h...

• Some days just milk – MILK IS PRIORITY: Baby occasionally has only breast milk/formula throughout the day. • Milk and some random snacks – MILK IS PRIORITY: Baby drinks milk and eats a few small, unstructured solid foods. • Mainly small meals + some milk – FOOD IS PRIORITY: Baby eats small meals regularly and al...

My son is in a food strike stage as well as I’m trying to set boundaries so he will listen to me better like he does my partner and other family members. He ate a full bowl of oatmeal this morning and asked for more I also gave him a banana and asked him to take a few bites and he wouldn’t he refused I didn’t force ...

What kind of yoghurts are good for an 8mo baby? I usually give him frubes or petit filous but I was wondering if activia would be good? Or if it can give him an upset belly x

Started weaning last Monday and I’m not sure how much my baby is actually eating. He will put pieces of veg in his mouth and sort of chew but makes funny faces. He’s not really into the purées he’s tried. But then he loves the Ella kitchen puffs. Is this normal?

Anyone else’s kid refuse to be spoon fed?! He’ll only eat if he feeds himself (even if it’s the same stuff off the same spoon), but he’s really loving finger foods. It’s taken me a while to figure this out because my first loved to be spoon fed, but this guy is the total opposite! Need tips for dealing with this on...

I’m looking to get some snacks that I can put in my baby trolley for when he gets here in a couple of weeks and I wanted to include some easy snacks for when I’m breastfeeding! Any suggestions of what you liked to snack on when breastfeeding?

To all my UK mums what do you give for breakfast that is gluten free? I just want to cut out certain things and my son is a good eater.

My LO eats really well at nursery and has tea at 4pm. But she seems really hungry when she comes home around 5:30 - at the moment I am giving her yogurt/fruit when she comes home and then milk an hour later between bath and bedtime (she goes to bed early between 6:30-7). Curious about what you are feeding your littl...

How many calories would you say your baby has per meal? It says online it should be between 50 and 100 but we’re more like 30-40 for breakfast and 50 for dinner.

My baby isn’t quite 5 months old but for the last month he is obsessed with any food/drink he can see. If hes on my lap he watches every bite/sip and is now starting to grab at it. I also noticed today that he was shouting at whatever I was eating across the room! I let him suck a bit of banana the other day when ...

I can’t cook boiled eggs for shit but hey they’re good

What are your babies eating right now besides their milk?

I have one son, who is now 1! However, he barely eats any dinner for some reason recently. More or less, he mainly just always wants to throw it around on his tray or drop it on the ground for our dog. We've cut out any afternoon snack to see if that makes him hungrier at dinner, but there isn't any change. We're r...

My 2 year old boy is so fussy eater… he ate for 2 days properly and then refuse eating straight away for 3-4days only take one-two bites of fruit and thats all.. Stressed AF.

What does everyone’s little ones have a day? My little girl has only had 3 bottles today!! She’s had a full bottle of water too ( she loves it but i try not to give her too much) but I’m just unsure on what to do her for food!! She loves purées and only just starting to like a bit of BLW! I just don’t know what to d...

Farmers market not in season until May but that's all we want to feed our baby. What are some good substitutions until the farmers market opens in May?

can any mommas give me suggestions on how often i should be giving my 5 month old solids. he was cleared to start solids at 4 months old but i’ve been withholding and would like to start introducing them now. picture so i don’t get lost

What are your meal schedules please? My little boy is almost 6.5 months, we started weaning him at 4 months. His schedule is roughly as follows; 8:00 6oz bottle 09:00 breakfast pouch 11:00 5oz bottle 12:00 mixed fruit & veg pouch or snacky bits 15:00 6oz bottle 17:00 porridge 19:00 5oz bottle 22:00 6oz bottle ...

Some days they are just not interested in baby food and only want their bottles and maybe will eat a lil crunchie or two. I’m a first time mom so I don’t know if this is okay. I don’t want to be underfeeding my twins. 🙃🙃🙃