The Food Tree: Growing healthy, happy bodies and minds
With a shared love of gentle parenting and their combined skills and experience with children, Rachael and Lorren launched The Food Tree, where they…
Baby Led Weaning
Want To Give Your Baby the Best Start on Solid Foods?
When it comes to introducing solid foods to your baby, the questions seem endless. When should you start? What should you introduce first? How…
Growing a Healthy Human
By Kerryn McArthur Growing a healthy human – this journey begins with those first foods that are introduced to a baby’s palate. I love the…
Let Your Baby Feed Themselves: They’ll Become Less Fussy Eaters
By Hannah Schenker Babies who feed themselves when they start eating solids become less fussy eaters, an Otago University study has found. Good news…
6 Tips For Introducing Solids To Your Tiny Tot
By Alla Zaykova Each child’s feeding journey is unique. Some may be eager eaters all the way, while others may be slower to start. It…
Solid Foods – When is it OK to Start Baby-Led Weaning?
By Gill Rapley Baby-led weaning (BLW, also known as baby-led solids) is a way of introducing solid foods that allows the baby to stay…
Baby-Led Weaning Poses No Extra Risk of Choking
By Hannah Schenker Are you keen to give Baby-Led Weaning (BLW) a go, but are concerned about the risk of choking? Well you can…
When They Need You to Fall Asleep: Self-Soothing and Other Myths
Re-blogged with permission by Wendy Wisner via The Badass Breastfeeder Does your baby or child need you to fall asleep? Is nursing the only…
Baby Led Weaning
By Gill Rapley It’s now over seven years since the World Health Organization (WHO) published its recommendation that six months should be the earliest…
7 Quick and Healthy Foods For Easy-Peasy Weaning
1/ Roasted carrots cut lengthways on the diagonal. Solid on the outside, for little hands to grab onto, soft, sweet and squishy on the…