I was watching a video today on how babies and children react to their first taste of a new food.You might remember a recent photo from Miss Freya (my niece) and her first experience of...

Easter is over and we've all eaten lots of chocolate so I thought a look at sugar in a childs' diet was timely!Now I have a confession! I have a notoriously sweet tooth which I...

The NHMRC new guidelines came out recently and I'm loving them. I'm especially loving the wording for when it is recommended to start your baby on solid foods. They advise 'around six months'.http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/media/newsletters/ceo/2013/launch-australian-dietary-guidelines-and-infant-feeding-guidelinesWhich is what...

Vitamin D and food allergies Interesting findings from the Murdoch Children's Institute in Melbourne have found a link with low Vitamin D levels and an increase in food allergies.Food allergies have had a dramatic increase...

Here's a couple of 6 month old babies demonstrating Baby Led Weaning.Oscar has been feeding himself with finger foods for 2 weeks and his favourite food is broccoli!!! Yes really! It's always the first food...

I get asked most weeks about how to wean from the breast safely and not get mastitis. So, of course, a blog was born!You may want or need to wean for many reasons and yes,...

Julie gave me the inspiration for this blog post. Thank you to Julie and Rosalie. Rosalie is only 3 days old and I went round to visit the new parents and of course baby needed...

Those of you who know me or who have read my blogs will no doubt recall my love of quinoa.It's one of those words that takes a while to get used to how to say...

Karen and Nurture Parenting Solutions welcomes the NHMRC's soon to be published guidelines on earlier introduction of solid food for babies.I have been advising earlier introduction of solids for quite a while now, and I...

This topic presented itself in a chance conversation with a mum this week and I felt it needed a bit more looking at. I had a mum come in to see me and a chance...