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

Has anyone else given baby fish yet? Bub is 6.5 months and I’m thinking of cooking salmon tomorrow night. Can I cut some up into little flakes and give to her?

My son will hardly eat anything and I literally don’t know what to do any more. He won’t try anything which I know he will like. He pushes the plate off his high chair or hands it back to me. I literally dread meal times. Has anyone else experienced this??

I have a 3 year old that refuses to eat anything but beige foods.... this is limited to sausage rolls, chips, hash browns and toast. He will eat any fruit offered but will not touch vegetables. Im starting to stress because he's constantly telling me he's hungry but refuses to try other foods and goes into meltdown....

My son has a terrible cold. He’s also getting his molars through 🙃 so he’s eating very little and all he does want to eat is yogurt etc. I’ve made him a green juice type thing? Just some boiling water, bone broth, then blended peas and broccoli. I’m going to try to give it to him in a bottle as it’s very thin and…

Has anyone else's toddler stopped eating well? He will only eat 'treat' foods like fries, crisps and biscuits. Or fruit and yogurt. I'm getting so fed up of making him meals and food getting wasted every night. He used to love things like pizza, cottage pie, spaghetti bolognese, now he won't eat any of it, it's rea...

So I have started purées with my baby but recently have been trying to add more solid food such as eggs or ground beef. He seems to just chew for a while and never swallows! It stays in his mouth but then eventually comes out. Do I just keep trying with hopes he will eventually learn how to swallow?

Anyone else really struggling with fear of giving their little ones finger foods? We had every intention of doing a mixture of BLW and purées, but I’m absolutely terrified of him choking! 😫 We’ve done a paediatric first aid course in preparation and even went on a BLW course but I am so on edge. We’ve tried cooked…

I was in the kitchen washing dishes and my 1 year old was in her play pen. My coffee was on the coffee table but apparently it was reachable for her to grab on to and spill I walked in and she was playing with the spilled coffee and cup. When I grabbed her to smell her mouth she stunk of coffee and creamer so I know...

So I know it's not technically BLW, but it also sort of is ig. Anyway my daughter (23.5 weeks/5.5 months) currently eats baby oatmeal/rice cereal mixed with some puree (pediatrician recommended) about once a day, sometimes twice depending how she's feeling and how much she eats during the first meal. I let her self-...

I really want to do BLW but am struggling. I’ve tried putting food in front of baby, he was interested for a day or two but now just looks away or throws it on the floor so I end up feeding him because I obviously want him to at least eat something. Can anyone give me any tips? He’s 8 months and we started on purees...

Bit of advice needed please! My little one was born 4lb - they think she was 6 weeks early but I had a cryptic pregnancy so we will never know! We were in hospital for a week only luckily and she was weighed daily, then weighed weekly by our SCBU outreach team for the first month out of hospital. Then monthly and s...

Im so worried!!! Even the favourite foods, not interested. Will eat a wafer or rice cracker or some breadstick while standing holding on to the couch, or if distracted by a spinner toy or a snack wrapper I can sneak some spoons of porridge or a yoghurt but not interested in anything else not even berries or fruits a...

Any suggestions on cereal options - in the UK - for toddlers. I used to go for Cheerios, but stopped - and just wondering about having a cereal in stock as a back up plan once in a while. But don’t want to feed him something totally unhealthy.

All of a sudden my little girl doesn’t want lunch she’ll eat dinner not a problem & breakfast but lunch she just cries she takes maybe half and is like nope and just hysterically cries what do I do 😩!!

My baby has been having mashed food at the moment 3 times a day and he loves it. I wanted to introduce some finger food such as carrot and potato sticks. My baby understood what he was supposed to do and put directly in his mouth and took some pieces out but then he gagged and spit out everything it was a bit scary ...

My LG has started having questionable food habits and I’m starting to worry. How do you avoid it? Shes now saying ‘I don’t like it’s to everything, even when she’s not tried it. She’s also now only asking for unhealthy foods like chocolate, crisps etc. she’s not asking for fruit anymore. I think I’m at the p...

My 18 month old daughter has been eating anything she can get her hands on: paper, crayons, books, napkins etc. At first I didn't think much of it since it's normal for kids to put things in their mouth and I thought it must be teething related. But it's now been going on for months and she actually swallow the item...

I'm finding it more and more difficult to work out when my baby is hungry and sometimes feel like I'm feeding him when he's not that hungry. He mouths everything now he's almost 5 months so that's not a sign anymore and he could go 4 hours without crying with hunger if I left him. How do you know if they're hungry n...

How much is your little one’s actually eating? I’m doing a mix of mashed/purees/BLW and feel like she only really has like a mouthful and that’s it.

Signing my little one up for nursery which starts at 8am. They do a snack at 9ish.. and then lunch at about 11:30am. This would mean giving my son breakfast before nursery at circa 7:30am. He only wakes up around 7 - 7:15am and I usually give him a bottle of milk then: Can’t hack what I’m supposed to do ! And al...