Children's Health & Nutrition

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Infant Cereal

Has anyone attempted to feed infant cereal to your babies yet? What is the recommended age to introduce it? My baby girl will be turning 4 months and I'm getting mixed answers.

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Weaning and milk

Since introducing food to my 6month old, breakfast and tea, he has started to mess around with his bottles inbetween. Has anyone else found this? Have you introduced a third meal or continued with milk inbetween? What’s your routines now?

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Picky Eater

How do y’all deal with picky eaters? My child refuses to eat anything and throws huge fits every night at dinner. We don’t force her to eat but ask her to try a bite which usually she does but then continues to cry and complain. She hates everything. I’m not making different meals every night. I’m at my wits end. Sh...

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Does your little one eat non food items?

So my son has been chewing on everything wooden in the house.. our wooden table, our MDF tv cabinet, I got him loads of wooden toys.. he has chewed them too! He will eat tissue, cotton buds, hair, his books, string.. literally the list goes on! I recently done a post about him eating our MDF cabinet and being conce...

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Meals

Some days my 13 month old would eat all her meals and some days she’ll eat little to nothing … is this normal ??

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When is it okay to give baby foods

My baby is 4 months and I wondering is should give him purées? Any thoughts?

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Weight

I have an almost 2 year old (Dec 18) and she is a super picky eater. She doesn’t like milk and will only eat about the same 3-4 things and then snacks periodically throughout the day. She is tall and skinny. I’m worried she is under weight and not getting enough nutrients. She is happy and seems healthy. Am I over w...

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Toddler wants to eat a frog…… ideas??

My toddler has been asking for a couple weeks to eat a frog (she’s never even seen a frog), she’s just being a monkey. ANYWAY I keep saying ‘not today’ but is there anything I can make that may resemble a frog? Or anywhere I can buy a frog cookie from or something? I’d just like to suprise her with her wish to e...

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Snacks

Can I get some inspo for snacks please? What and when do you offer your little ones snacks? ❤️

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Air fryer for toddler

Does anyone use an air fryer to cook meals for toddlers and is it any quicker. I saw a review somewhere about it being unsafe due to metal or something but can’t remember what it was about? Is there anything in it?

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Anyone remember the last time they could eat their evening meal in peace!?

Am I doing something wrong!? Every evening meal is so arduous now. One of us holding a fussing baby, swapping with the other when we can...can't watch a film or TV or anything!

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Yogurt

What kind of yogurt is okay for babies? All I have is activia is that okay? He’s 6 months

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anybody baby start eating at 4 months

my baby loves it now 5 months and has the biggest appetite ever 😂😂 she tried to steal out food now everything like omggg pls stay small

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Dinner timing

What time do you do dinner for your 2 year old and do you also do any milk still before bed? Ours is having constipation issues and wondering if too much dairy is a contributing factor. But also interested in general in people's dinner and nighttime milk/small snack routine

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My son has been eating our MDF cabinet! Poisoning ?

My son has been gnawing on absolutely everything but he has progressively been chewing a hole in our tv cabinet which is made of MDF, no matter what I have tried to cover it with, he eats through it! I’m planning on buying a new cabinet however I just read that MDF is made of Formaldehyde! What the heck do I do no...

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Yoghurt and food

My baby will only eat something that's not spag bol or porridge covered in yoghurt. Anyone else?? Is this okay for now?? So tonight I made broccoli tuna pasta... But she would only eat spoonfuls with yoghurt.

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