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Hungry/missing out

Just wondering if anyone’s little ones are the same… My little girl has 1 meal a day as she’s not quite 6 months and has been on purées and finger foods for 2ish weeks. However, I sit her in either her high chair or bouncer every time I eat and she goes nuts!! She’ll try and grab the food off my plate and shout/cr...

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Weaning

Honest answers please at what age did you start trying your baby with puree, rusk, baby rice/porridge etc? I know it states on the packaging certain months but was curious on actual ages people start.

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Honey

I'm literally here seeking reassurance, I made bread and gave my LB some. I completely forgot I added 2 tablespoons of honey to the loaf. I'm just a bit worried about the fact he's had honey.

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Fussy 16 month old

My baby is so so fussy with food, hates pasta, hates veggies, very hit and miss with fruit, won’t eat bread, won’t eat meat, spits nearly every meal out I make her. The only way I can get her to eat is if the food is very very smooth and the only way I can get any meat into her is if I feed her a 12m+ ready meal bou...

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Spitting food out/blowing raspberry

Hi mums, I’m quite lost, for the past 4 days, my 8 mo been spitting his food out during his meal/doing blowing raspberry whenever he eats now. We thought he doesn’t like the food so we gave him food that we know he likes but still the same. The only thing he doesn’t do this to is one of those ella’s kitchen snacks/...

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Bad eater

Is anyone just at the end of their tether with a bad eater?!! It sends me crazy. He used to eat breakfast quite well and I've always gave him weetabix, yoghurt, or readbrek. The only thing he eats now is cheese and fruit. Every day is a struggle, I know if he doesn't eat well he's up in the night for a bottle. I ma...

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Meal ideas throughout the day?

If anyone has any pictures of info that I could give my baby throughout the day, we are doing purée at the moment, but I’m just struggling to think of new things. I feel like he’s just living off of potato sweet potato carrot 🤣 I’m currently doing a new veg or fruit every two days so it just feels like it’s taken…

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Weaning!

My 10 month old is currently refusing to eat anything other than purées or baby rice cakes. Usually all of the blw snacks I make for him he scoffs down and loves them! He’s been quite disturbed due to his 2nd top tooth coming through and it’s literally RIGHT under the surface so I think it’s hurting him, and therefo...

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BLW/fruit/veg

Anyone else’s Lo still not confident with picking up slippier bits of food like strawberry or cucumber etc? He plays with it but doesn’t pick up any foods and eat them unless it’s dry food such as bread/crumpet/crackers etc. we’ve not long just properly started BLW last month, still doing that along with a mixture ...

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Birthday party

What kind of food are you have at your baby’s party?

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I’m losing my shit

It’s getting more and more impossible to feed my now 2 year old daughter like I know there’s a picky phase but my goodness this is impossible! We are going on day 3 of no dinner and I don’t have a lot of ingredients unfortunately cause I’ve been really broke lately so today I made chicken and potatoes yesterday I ma...

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Nursery tea and home tea

For those who have LO’s in nursery, what are you offering for tea? My LO has breakfast at 9am (cereal and toast), lunch at 12pm (usually a big lunch with pudding), snack at 2pm (usually fruit), light tea at 4pm (wraps, sandwiches etc) with pudding. What are you offering your LO’s for tea? Are you doing meals or some...

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Quick lunch ideas?

Ladies, I have white soft bread. What can I make my 19 month old baby? Thanks x

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Weaning help!

Hi! So my little girl is 7 months old and we have been weaning for around a month now. We are doing a mix of purée and BLW, but she is not interested in any food at all and won’t eat a thing. With purée she won’t even open her mouth to taste anything and finger foods she will pick up but then just throw away. Lookin...

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2 year old not feeding himself

Am I overthinking this…. My nearly 2 year old little boy will not feed himself with a knife and fork, he will pick certain things up with his hands, but he always asks me or daddy to feed himself, even when we try to encourage him to do it himself… any tips? :(

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Fish !

Hey ladies I was just wondering what the first fish was that tried for your babies I am very nervous because of the mercury and also the bones is there any tricks or anything you wanna throw my way ?

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