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1 Get a Solid Start to Feeding Your Baby
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2 The Best Time to Start Solids
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3 Are Fruits or Vegetables a Better First Food?
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4 A Solid Start: A Mom-to-Mom Guide For Feeding Baby
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6 A Solid Start: 10 Physical Tips For Starting Solid Foods
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7 Do Solid Foods Help Babies Sleep Through the Night?
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8 9 Products Designed to Make Solid Food Feeding Easier
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9 Who's the Mama?
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10 Baby Gourmet: Guess Which Meal Is Real!
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11 Alicia Silverstone Feeds Her Son Already Chewed Food, Do You?
Sometimes chewing your food is just a lot of work, right? Alicia Silverstone seems to think so. The actress, mama to baby Bear, 11 months, and vegan lifestyle expert recently shared a video of her son eating some chewed up food right out of her mouth — and it wasn't a onetime thing. On her Kind Life blog, she explained: I just had a delicious breakfast of miso soup, collards and radish steamed Read more
We couldn't help but notice . . . the hottest trend in baby food these days is undoubtedly the introduction of unexpected flavor combinations. Designed to stimulate tiny taste buds, some of the combos sound good enough for mom and dad to eat, while others are just plain outrageous. Test your baby culinary knowledge by guessing which of the following flavors are real, and which are made up! Take Read more
Which celeb mama's been busy cooking things up for her lil one? She spent the weekend pureeing and mixing baby food for her solids-eating tot — even labeling if they're intended for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Read more
Hooray for food! Moving beyond rice cereal to real food purees is a real milestone, and like any new baby step, it's filled with gadgets and gear to help mamas along the way. Sure, you can simply take the spoon to the jar or bowl and place it your lil one's mouth, but before long, mom's sure to realize that "there has to be an easier and neater way" to do so. Before cleaning up another puddle of Read more
We're excited to share this post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we will be bringing you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Andrea Updyke about that old wives tale that says babies sleep better after eating solid foods. Feeding a baby can be a non-stop barrage of questions. Is he getting enough? Is he getting too much? Read more
Drinking, sleeping, and pooping is the way of life for newborns until the baby is ready to start eating. Mothers want to feed their children nutritious foods, but there are a vast amount of options so we've pulled together a guide that takes mom from the infant's birth through the first year. Read more
Toss the utensil and add some spice? We've got 10 nontraditional tips for parents introducing solids to baby. From rice cereal to purees, there are countless tastes to give your tot. Annabel Karmel recently gave us some inventive ideas for getting babe to eat. With her latest feeding tome, Starting Solids ($11), set to hit bookshelves next week, check out what she had to say! Read more
It's a joyous day when your lil one gets the go ahead to start eating solid foods. Starting with rice cereals and moving on to purees and eventually finger foods, we're here to help you get your tot started on a solid food regimen. Check out some of our solid food coverage and start creating meal plans that will inspire your new eater. Top 100 Baby Purees A Solid Start: 5 Foods to Avoid Solid Read more
Feed your baby with one arm tied behind your back? You can do that! When lil ones are first introduced to solids, moms can spend most of the meal batting their hands away from the oncoming food and ending up with a lap full of pureed veggies. Using their experience with the Squirt Dispensing Spoon, Boon has teamed up with Plum Organics to introduce the Plum Dispensing Spoon ($4 for two), a set of Read more
Introducing solids is cause for celebration in most households. Watching a baby learn to explore tastes and textures, after almost six months of nothing but milk or formula, is a milestone experience for both mom and tot, but figuring out just what to serve and how to do it can become a bit tricky. Once a lil one has mastered baby cereals, it's time to bring strained fruits and vegetables into Read more
