How to Wean Your Baby: The step-by-step plan to help your baby love their broccoli as much as their cake

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Try to look out for these occurring at the same time as each other and not just as a one-off. Generally, this is likely to happen at around 6 months of age. What foods should I start weaning with? You also want to offer soft foods, including finger foods that are manageable to baby at the start of weaning, and gradually move on through those textures to more complex and harder foods as your baby develops their eating skills. Watching, observing and being led by your baby is key. Cow’s milk as a whole drink until 1 year – cow’s milk can be offered from six months in baby’s food, but not as a main drink. This is because cow’s milk doesn’t contain the right levels of fat, protein or energy for baby’s appropriate growth.

Charlotte Stirling-Reed shared her expert weaning tips How should you introduce allergens when weaning? Genuinely this is something I’ve dreamed of from the very start of my career and now, voila! It’s here. Once you've offered a nice variety of single veggie tastes (10 days or so), you can start to move on and build a variety into your little one's diet, nice and gradually. It's important to know that babies aren’t expected to simply gobble foods up at the start of the weaning journey. However, weaning is about exploring the new and some research suggests that starting baby's weaning journey by offering a variety of veggies can be a helpful way to go to help them to accept a wider range of tastes (not just sweet) early on.Parents often ask about portion sizes, but the truth is that there are no portion size guides for babies. Babies will all have totally different appetites when it comes to weaning. Some take to it well right at the start, and others are slower to get the hang of it. It’s important not to compare as they are all different, and that includes in how much they will eat too. Try to let your baby lead that journey and look out for signs they have had too much or too little and want more. They are the best ones to know and feel their own appetites. How to deal with food refusal

Once your baby has had the allergen without a reaction, aim to include it regularly (1-2x per week) in the diet With 70 delicious, balanced recipes, with clear baby and toddler adaptations for each with Charlotte's expert advice, you'll soon find mealtimes can be stress-free and healthy, so you can continue your journey of bringing up adventurous little foodies. When it comes to weaning, I’ve found in my work that CONFIDENCE is one of the most KEY things you need as a parent/or carer starting your baby on their journey onto solid foods. Recipes we love: Carrot Cake Granola, Turkey Burgers, Roast Squash Tagine, Cheat’s Veggie Lasagne and Lower-Sugar Marble Cake. The other thing I would say is bulk buying things like pasta and rice and making sure we visit the aisle in the supermarket which has got a lot more different foods from different cultures. Sometimes you can get a lot of cheaper options like big bags of lentils and big bags of rice and couscous from there as well. So definitely do that.

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Try to start building 'meals' by adding a combination of foods together from the different food groups (e.g. pasta with broccoli and beef mince), including: From your baby's perspective, there’s a lot going on when you start them on solid foods – new tastes, textures, smells as well as the behavioural and coordination aspects that come with learning how to eat. So allowing time and thinking of these first veggies as simply ‘tiny tastes’ can help. I would call it a family feeding Bible because I think it's so much more than just recipes. The recipes are so important and I love them and I'm using them a lot but my book has facts and nutrition and practical support in there as well. So it's not just recipes, it's really rounded.

Stokke is hosting a free weaning webinar – How to Wean Your Baby Mini Masterclass: A step by step guide to weaning with Charlotte Stirling-Reed, Nutritionist and Author, on Zoom, 28th April at 8pm. Register for FREE here. Hopefully, this article has given you a bit of confidence, and sometimes it takes just reading around the topic a little to help you know the what, why and when of how to begin. The Baby Show is taking place from 3-5 March at ExCeL London. The Baby Show is the UK’s leading pregnancy and parenting event and will play host to the UK’s leading baby and parenting experts and guest speakers.Genuinely this is something I’ve dreamed of from the very start of my career and now, voila! It’s here. A little different…