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

So my baby is 8 months and I’m worried about some of her milestones. She’s not really interested in food just yet.. and when she does eat she rather use her mouth rather than her hands. Does anyone else experience this?

(i can see this is a rate my plate sort of group but the other blw group i posted on doesn’t look like anyone’s active at all as none of the posts have any comments on whatsoever) my baby is basically 8 months now and since christmas (5 month old ish) she has had ella’s kitchen purees, part because i was terrified ...

Every hour.... Nack please mummy?!? Nack?!?!? Me have Nack now?!?! 😂😂 What do you give for snacks? She eats alot of fruit, but I worry about too much sugar. Sometimes I give a cream cracker, a couple of breadsticks, a handful of quavers. What do you all give for snacks?

Please ANY suggestions with getting these kids to eat. My little one is just not interested and I'm at my wits end.

It's more easy for her to eat like this 🫠 do your babies eat like this too?

I feel like since my daughter turned 1 , 2 weeks ago, she has stopped eating. Foods that we’ve been eating for months that she would eat several spoonfuls of, she now will only take one bite and be done. I originally was thinking it was because she was teething but now it’s going on too long. Instead of her usually ...

Anyone’s baby on 3 meals a day? I dont know when to transition to 3 meals!

Am I being too much of a control freak with my daughter's food? I would prefer her not to have any food with added sugar, but at nursery they continue to give her biscuits and jam and other things containing sugar. My husband tells me that he's mentioning on pick up to please not give her these things but then it ...

Hiii so I’m looking for food recommendations for my 7 almost 8 month old healthy options and she’s a very picky eater so I’m also looking for tips on how to offer her foods she doesn’t like veggies and I’m so lost at how to get her to eat them my other two girls (4 & 1 years old) love veggies but my almost 8 month o...

Hi lovelies please can anyone recommend meal ideas for my daughter. She’s 9 months but only has three teeth. We are leaning towards jar baby food but I wanna try and brave some other foods

Hello ! My son is 18 months old. Trying to figure out what he likes to eat and making sure he gets healthy foods has been tough. I served him the Happy Tot ravioli meal, and he loved it! After I realized it says for ages 2+....the pouches say 2+ as well.... do you think age is a big deal, especially since we (adul...

Anyone else’s toddler ask to be fed? He’s been able to use a fork and spoon since he was about 13-14m but recently he’s been asking us to feed him. So just wondering if anyone else has gone through it?

How is best to make 6m old porridge?

Has anyone here started solids with their LO, what did you feed them, what utilities you used and what high chair you using?

Hey mamas, what food/snacks are you giving your LO while out and about?

My MIL was released from the hospital today. She’s flying back home with me on Saturday and will be living us (YAY!!!! I’m absolutely thrilled) anyways. She needs to be on a low sodium diet now and the nutritionist recommended salt substitutes. I’ve never used them before so I’m not sure if they are supposed to be a...

I’m at my wits end!! My son is 15months old, he’s always been a fussy eater but he eats certain foods - recently has been constipated and in a lot of pain so trying to feed him high fibre food He keeps spitting everything out and isn’t eating anything at all What can I do 😭

So my daughter is in a stage where she only wants to eat food if she can feed herself. Did any of your lo do this if so how long ???

Hey Mamas My baby will be 9m next week and we've been BLW and purees/mashed foods which has been going well - hes such a foodie. I'm a little anxious about the BLW parts but getting better as I can see how much my baby enjoys feeding himself. I see that cucumbers can be given from 6m so the other day I tried it with...

I’ve been using it as a smoothie thickener but my baby is a great eater and eats solids a lot, I just was thinking about only using oats to thicken his smoothies now. He’s 18months eats pretty much anything a 18month old can have.