Most starting solids advice focuses on what not to give your baby. This guide focuses on what to give them, and why it matters more than you think.
Between six and twelve months, your baby's nutrient requirements outpace what milk alone can provide. This is a window of rapid brain development, gut microbiome establishment, and taste preference shaping. The food you offer in this window lays foundations that influence health for decades to come. It deserves more than a generic chart on a paediatrician's wall.
Written by myself, Sheree Ketter, Clinical Nutritionist (BHSc), this 41-page whole-food guide covers everything you need to approach solids with clarity and confidence.
Part One covers your baby's nutritional needs from the very first bite, including the three approaches to starting solids, the most nutrient-dense first foods and how to prepare them, stage-by-stage food guides from six to twelve months and beyond, allergen introduction and more.
Part two is dedicated entirely to you. Because a well-fed mother is the foundation of a well-fed child.
The postpartum period asks more of a woman's body than almost any other season of life, and in most modern contexts, postpartum care ends at six weeks. Part Two covers the postpartum hormonal and blood sugar landscape, why maternal nutrient repletion is not optional, foundational postpartum foods rooted in traditional whole-food wisdom, specific guidance for breastfeeding nutrition and much more.
Most starting solids advice focuses on what not to give your baby. This guide focuses on what to give them, and why it matters more than you think.
Between six and twelve months, your baby's nutrient requirements outpace what milk alone can provide. This is a window of rapid brain development, gut microbiome establishment, and taste preference shaping. The food you offer in this window lays foundations that influence health for decades to come. It deserves more than a generic chart on a paediatrician's wall.
Written by myself, Sheree Ketter, Clinical Nutritionist (BHSc), this 41-page whole-food guide covers everything you need to approach solids with clarity and confidence.
Part One covers your baby's nutritional needs from the very first bite, including the three approaches to starting solids, the most nutrient-dense first foods and how to prepare them, stage-by-stage food guides from six to twelve months and beyond, allergen introduction and more.
Part two is dedicated entirely to you. Because a well-fed mother is the foundation of a well-fed child.
The postpartum period asks more of a woman's body than almost any other season of life, and in most modern contexts, postpartum care ends at six weeks. Part Two covers the postpartum hormonal and blood sugar landscape, why maternal nutrient repletion is not optional, foundational postpartum foods rooted in traditional whole-food wisdom, specific guidance for breastfeeding nutrition and much more.
