Its been one week since I last breastfed Valentina. She’s now 14 months old and I felt it was time for us to move on. If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll now that I had love/hate feelings about breastfeeding at the start of my motherhood...
I slowly began weaning Valentina onto food from six months. I soon discovered she was not ready and so I back-tracked for about one month. On my second attempt, I was not thinking about meals but more about giving her a chance to explore textures at her own pace. I...
As a family with a mixed heritage background, our children have been introduced to diverse flavours from the point of weaning. Angelo went through a fussy phase in the earlier stage of his toddler-hood, but he’s now back on track. He knows what likes and its food full...
I really enjoyed weaning Angelo onto solids. He was happy to try anything. More often than not he’d eat what he was given. Then he turned two and it went all went down-hill. We seemed lose our way; him not wanting to eat much and me with newborn to take care of as...
Valentina is now 24 weeks old. At 22 weeks she had her first taste of baby porridge. I would not say I’d begun to wean her, but I was curious to know if she would sleep longer with something a bit heavier. RESULT: There was no difference. Perhaps there was not...
