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Category: Nutritional tips and advice for baby
Gluten-Free Mini Muffins: Sweet Potato Banana Bites
If you're mum to a gluten-sensitive little one, finding simple, tasty recipes whose ingredients don't read as long as your monthly shopping list can be a tall order. But with just four main ingredi...
Marks & Spencer launches new baby food range
Any M&S fans – with small children – in the house? If so, you’ll be excited to know (if you don’t already) that the retailer has just launched its first ever new baby food range! Named Ti...
The top 3 exciting tastes for baby!
Baby food brand Ella’s Kitchen recently teamed up with the science-y people at the Thrill Laboratory to find out which ingredients are the most exciting for babies. When babies get excited their li...
What is a ‘flexi feeding routine’ and how do you apply it to a newborn?
Make no mistake new mums, babies are cheeky. From birth. If you give them an inch they will take a mile! Indulgent by nature babies will appreciate any form of excess that you allow them. Do I sound ...
Five tips on how not to prepare baby food
As a massive lover of food in general, I was blissfully excited when the day came that my children were ready to ‘start on solids’ – so the professionals say. I couldn’t wait to introduce them...
Four toddler food nutrition tips
Babies, toddlers and young children can be notoriously difficult eaters, who, if something doesn’t contain lashings of sugar, turn their noses up and refuse to eat it! Even if you are in the lucky...
Five useful breastfeeding tips!
As well as providing all the essential vitamins and minerals for a baby, breast milk is a special way for mum and infant to bond. Although far from always being plain sailing, many mothers can find b...
The advantages and disadvantages of mix feeding
For some mothers the idea of mixed feeding may come as a relief, as their baby will still be getting the benefits of their breast milk but they get some respite from the often tiring job of breastfeed...
Six foods and drink to avoid when breastfeeding
When you breastfeed the food and drink that you consume will be passed on to your child through the breast milk, meaning that your baby receives essentially the same nutrients as you do. It is therefo...
