The Homemade Baby Food Recipes Blog

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from raising our family, it’s that no two children are ever the same and that you may as well toss the ‘rule book’ out the window! This is particularly true when it comes to babies – and even more so when it comes to feeding them! When you first [...]

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Sharon from Leeds in the UK wrote to us yesterday because her 11 month old son swallowed a watermelon seed that she missed when preparing a piece of the fruit for him to gnaw on. She was concerned that the seed may be toxic or cause problems for her little one. There are many stories [...]

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When your baby gets a cold, it may often involve a nasty bout of congestion. And when your baby is congested, his discomfort can make it very difficult for hom to eat and drink… not to mention sleep! But did you know that certain foods can actually aggravate congestion and are best avoided when baby [...]

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So – when you are introducing new foods to your baby, it’s important to follow the ‘four day rule’. This means giving your baby the new food, then waiting for AT LEAST four days before giving him another new food. Why is this important? Well, if your little one has a bad reaction to peaches, [...]

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When your baby is teething, all he’ll want to do is chew… and there are plenty of teething biscuits out there designed to meet this need. The problem with most commercially made teething biscuits, however, is that they contain undesirable ingredients (including sugar) – and they tend to be expensive. So the best option – [...]

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Recent tests in the US have confirmed that three babies have been infected with HIV, very likely via food that was pre-chewed by their caregivers. In two cases, the caregivers were the mothers and in one case an aunt. Pre-chewing food to make it easier for baby to swallow and digest is commonly practised in [...]

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Breastfeeding is one of the best ways to give your baby a strong immune system from birth, because breast milk is packed with your antibodies which are then passed on to baby. But there are certain foods that can help give your little one’s immune system a boost as he begins to rely on solids as [...]

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If your baby was born prematurely (before 37 weeks) then the usual ‘rules’ for introducing solids may not apply. For some premature babies, early weaning is recommended to help them ‘catch up’ on the nutrition they missed in the womb – others are not developmentally ready until 8 – or more – months after their [...]

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Jen from Iowa in the United States wrote to us yesterday to ask if she could give her son Tyler (aged 6 1/2 months) Karo to relieve his constipation. This isn’t the first time we’ve been asked about Karo as a remedy for baby constipation and we’ve had a few messages in the past asking [...]

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Once your baby is past the stage of eating only pureed foods, it’s time to think about expanding his menu to include things that he can eat with his fingers (unless, of course, you do Baby Led Weaning, in which case you will have skipped the purees altogether!). We are often asked about including toast [...]

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