Articles Tagged: weaning

Mums feel under too much pressure to breastfeed

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Mar 15, 2012

There's no doubt that breastfeeding is good for babies - but is it pushed just too hard to women, regardless of their needs and circumstances?

Mums-to-be told how to avoid having a fussy eater - vary your diet in pregnancy

By Keith Kendrick, Feb 22, 2012

The secret of how to avoid having a child who is a fussy eater has been revealed: mums-to-be should vary their diet during pregnancy.

Your baby at six months

By Hilary Pereira, Feb 1, 2012

This month you'll see more acceleration in your baby's development. It's an exciting time for all the family as she starts to sit unsupported, respond to her own name and start eating solid foods in earnest.

Baby died after parents force fed her solids

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Sep 23, 2011

The Old Bailey has heard the mum and dad of a ten-month-old baby used a JUG to force-feed her solid food until she died. The jury were told the little girl had food such as meat and cereals forced upon her through a spout until her death in March, 2010.

Competitive mums pile on the pressure for children to achieve developmental milestones

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Sep 5, 2011

Do you feel under pressure from other people about how quickly your children achieve milestones? If you do, you're not alone – a report out today has revealed that millions of parents push their kids to learn to walk, talk, sleep through the night and even to make friends because they fear other mums 'judging' them.

The mouths of babes

By Pip Jones, Aug 30, 2011

There are some things about motherhood that will always remain as primitive as conception itself. Other than protecting our offspring from roaming predators (or rather these days moving vehicles, open first-floor windows, child-targeted advertising and so on) our ONE job, as a mother, is to ensure our children are fed. And it becomes, without you even realising it, quite obsessional.

Salt intake - 70 per cent of babies are exceeding daily limits

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Aug 2, 2011

New research has found that 70% of BABIES are exceeding the recommended daily limit of salt. As parents shovel baked beans, bread, gravy and cow's milk down their tot's throats, more than half of British babies are eating DOUBLE the amount of salt they should be.