Starting Solid Foods

As soon as your baby begins to take a real interest in solid foods, it is time to get organized so that meals are quick and easy for you and comfortable for him. This is no longer a tiny baby to be held on your lap to suck a tiny portion of puree off... Read more

Your Baby’s First Solids

There is no hurry; go slowly. Learning to eat solid foods is a big task for your baby. Up to now he has connected being hungry with sucking for milk. Now he has to learn that hunger can be satisfied by foods other than milk and that these foods can be... Read more

Mixed Feeding

Breast milk or formula is a complete food and drink except that some breast-fed babies may need a little extra iron by the time they are four months old. In theory your child could go on living on milk alone forever but in practice a milk-only diet would... Read more

Night Feeding

Most bottle-fed babies will go on needing six feedings in the 24 hours until they are at least six weeks old. Many will need five feedings until they are somewhere around four months. If you are breast-feeding, you may not differentiate between a “feeding”... Read more

Bottle Feeding

Underfeeding Underfeeding is rare in bottle-fed babies but it can happen. A baby who cries a great deal, seems generally discontented with life and is gaining weight slowly, is probably not getting enough to eat. Check the following points: You may be... Read more

Breast Feeding

Underfeeding Underfeeding in a breast-fed baby can creep up on you very gradually in a way which is unfairly difficult to spot. What often happens is this: having got breast-feeding started, your milk supply is plentiful during the first two or three... Read more

Feeding And Growing

By the time your baby is around two weeks old, he will have learned about feeding either at the breast or from a bottle. Those first confusing days, when neither of you knew quite what you were doing, are over. The baby wants to eat. He wants you to feed... Read more