Category: Baby Stuff
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Home made Pizzas in under 30mins!
So we’re well past the weaning stage now with Evander just turned 19 months. I will go back and finish a bunch of unfinished blog posts I have on weaning and recipe reviews at some point.I’ve seen a few bits online recently that have encouraged people to just post rather than not spend ages on…
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Our breastfeeding journey
It was national breastfeeding week a few weeks ago and although I’ve stopped breastfeeding, i wanted to write a bit about our experience. There’s a lot of information out there and loads of support groups but I still felt that the advice you can receive from ‘official’ sources were a bit lacking in some areas.…
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Donating Breastmilk
It’s world day of Human Milk Donation and I thought I’d help spread the word as many people don’t realise you can donate while breastfeeding! Before I was pregnant I watched a news clip about premature babies and women that were donating breastmilk to help them. I remember thinking that if I was ever lucky…
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Tasty Finger Foods
We had a few weeks of feeding Evander simple veg and then started offering combinations. This is when the pre-frozen cubes came in handy. I then started offering bits of what we were eating, either blended or mushed with some of the frozen veg. Things like flaked cod or salmon, veg stews, soups etc worked…
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Reuseable Nappies
I can’t quite remember what made me consider using cloth nappies but I think I was about 5 months pregnant when i started to look into it. Initial googling suggested that you use about 4000 nappies before a child is potty trained and that they can take up to 500 years to decompose ( although…
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Food Prep
Just before we started to wean in December I saw on the news that Heinz and Tesco had been recalled all their 7 + month ‘By Nature’ baby foods due to suspected deliberate tampering and sharp metal found in one product. This has also very recently been in the news again with Cow and Gate…
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Intro and first taste of food
I’ll start by saying that i’m no expert! I’m a first time mum to our boy, Evander and we’re now a month into our weaning journey. Having spent many a night feed googling hints and tips for weaning, my mum suggested I start a blog on what worked and what didn’t incase it’s useful to…
Make or Bake Abi 