Your baby is growing by leaps and bounds

Starting your little one on solid foods is quite a milestone!

Starting solid foods is a new and exciting step in your baby’s eating development, but it often comes with many questions.

During babies’ first year of life their nutritional needs are higher than those of adults

A quiz for moms of 6 to 7-month-olds

Take this quiz and test your nutrition knowledge!

Is your hungry baby eating enough? Here are some hunger and fullness cues to watch out for during your toddler's development.

How will you feed your newborn?

The food you give your kids will help them grow in so many ways beyond the physical. It will expose them to new smells and textures. It will introduce them to exciting new flavours they’ve never had before. It will help them understand what they like and don’t like. And it will lay the groundwork for a healthy relationship with food. A healthy variety of snack ideas for kids that achieve all four is a good idea.

You want to serve your little foodie the best in infant nutrition. What you don’t want are bugs in her food—yuck!

She’s everywhere! She’s everywhere! At least she wants to be, and she wants to get there on her own.

By Dr. Ted Jablonski, family physician

By Dr. Ted Jablonski, family physician

You’re half-awake at 4 am with a wide-awake baby in your arms and wondering if you’ll ever get a full night’s sleep again. Don’t worry, you will. Your baby will eventually learn to sleep through the night. You know this because  you eventually learned to sleep through the night when you were a baby. The tips below will help you and your baby adjust, as will what the Canadian Paediatric Society says about newborn sleep development any time of day ¾ or night!

There is growing evidence that many factors in the environment play a role in allergies developing in babies. The first foods your baby is introduced to and how early they are introduced to them can play a critical role in whether your child will develop a food allergy.

By Dr. Jeff Habert, family physician

Whether you want to express breast milk or you’re thinking of supplementing with baby formula, try these 13 tips on how to switch from breastfeeding to bottle-feeding.

This article includes contributions from Dr. Dina Kulik, pediatrician, and Charlotte Geroudet, GD.

Teething begins at different times for different babies, although most have already started by six months of age. The first tooth usually appears in the middle of the lower jaw, known as the bottom front teeth. 

By now you've noticed that everything seems to make its way into your little one’s mouth. Once he’s able grasp small objects, eating those little goodies is exactly what he'll try to do. His tiny teeth are ready to be put to good use. Although he's only using them for cutting, not really chewing, that doesn't mean your child is ready for just any food you offer.