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.

Genuinely this is something I’ve dreamed of from the very start of my career and now, voila! It’s here. If your child has eczema, it’s best if their skin is in good condition before giving allergens. Speak to your GP about optimising treatment of eczema if emollients aren’t helpingStokke 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. 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. Always remember that all babies will progress through weaning at different paces. The most important thing is to have fun, take the pressure off and focus on offering a variety of foods to your baby throughout their weaning journey! Genuinely this is something I’ve dreamed of from the very start of my career and now, voila! It’s here. A little different… Raw or lightly cooked eggs – make sure eggs are well cooked when offering to baby, UNLESS they are Red Lion Stamped. If they’re red lion stamped, it means the hens have been vaccinated against salmonella, and so they don’t need to be thoroughly cooked for babies.

Charlotte Stirling-Reed shared her expert weaning tips How should you introduce allergens when weaning? It is really tough. And at the moment, you know, you're going to find that very little is going to help because it's really, really, really challenging times. But definitely what I would say is batch cooking actually does save you a lot of money. Especially if you're bringing food home, you're prepping it, getting it ready, freezing it. So for example, if you bought some potatoes from the supermarket they're about to go off, get them home, slice them up, lay them on a tray and pop them in the freezer. And that means that they actually are going to last for a much longer time. And when you're batch cooking, you tend to be able to throw lots of things in and you then have got food that was going to go to waste all bundled into a big batch cook bowl and then you freeze it again and it means that you don't have to go to supermarket as many times to buy food.I think it has almost followed my own stages in life. I was sort of in between weaning Raffy and Ada when the first book came out, so I'd done it myself and kind of got that competence and was going into it a second time. And then with How to Feed Your Toddler, I think Raffy was about three or four and then Ada was just coming up to one and so I had that toddler aspect of the slight food refusal and when all those challenges come up in the toddler years. There's a lot to think about when you're a parent and we all know how difficult it can be to plan healthy meals that everyone from the littlest member to the largest will enjoy. That's where having a good selection of family cookbooks from the likes of Charlotte Stirling-Reed comes in useful. Babies are actually born with a preference for sweeter foods and so don't generally need much help to like and accept sweeter options such as apples and pears. RELATED: The genius baby weaning sets celebrities swear by When should you introduce more meals to your baby? 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.